Multimodal prehabilitation improves functional capacity before and after colorectal surgery for cancer: a five-year research experience.

CONCLUSION: In large secondary analysis, multimodal prehabilitation resulted in greater improvement in walking capacity throughout the whole perioperative period when compared to rehabilitation started after surgery.
PMID: 28079430 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acta Oncologica - January 11, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Minnella EM, Bousquet-Dion G, Awasthi R, Scheede-Bergdahl C, Carli F Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research