What is pre-hab for weight loss surgery?

The purpose of prehab programs is to assist patients to get in the greatest shape possible before to surgery. When you go into surgery with confidence, recovering from it might be easier. Prehab exercise is being included in patient treatment programs by an increasing number of surgeons. In this video, Mr. Ahmed Ahmed talks more about Prehab for weight loss surgery.

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Prehab for weight loss surgery is essentially a series of recommendations that your team will give you in order to make sure you're optimized before the operation. It can include things, for example, such as stopping smoking, improving your diet, going on a liver shrinkage diet, making sure that your nutrition is optimized and any deficiencies are corrected, and also taking a little bit of physical activity, such as even walking for half an hour daily before the operation. All these things will actually help your journey through weight loss surgery, or in fact, any surgery.

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