A small study finds that individualized prehab can dampen harmful immune responses and may reduce complications after an operation.

As digital health grows, and as healthcare systems shift toward outcomes over actions, prehabilitation fits perfectly.

While most scheduled surgeries do proceed as planned, same-day cancellations for surgeries and other procedures are fairly frequent, ranging from 2.5% to 20%, depending on the procedure, a study found.

A program to help surgery patients prepare physically and mentally for their procedure can help hospitals reduce their length of stay and lower costs, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The “prehabilitation ...

I’m all for being thorough and careful, but holy moly, this knee-surgery prep is something else. This all started nearly 20 years ago when an orthopedic surgeon said I had a knee that needed replacing. I won’t go back that far to tell a long and boring story of minor fixes, compensating and limping along for all these years.

For 71-year-old Jack Bunton, osteoarthritis in his knee had become so bad that bone was rubbing against bone. "It's very, very painful when you walk," Bunton says. "My left leg was an inch and a half shorter than the right." Fortunately for the retired ...

All patients received intravenous antibiotics prior to surgery. Patients with prior infection, anesthesia class V poor-risk patients, patients requiring emergency surgery, and patients with missing data were excluded. The results showed significant benefit ...