Prehabilitation programs involving aerobic exercise, nutrition, and psychological support can reduce complications and hospital stays for major surgery patients.

“most of the studies have looked at fairly simple aerobic programs walking programs and often times they're combined with nutrition psychological counseling stress reduction uh in the general literature um these programs have been shown to be effective for patients going on to surgery onto a major surgery and show that they have fewer complications from the surgery shorter Hospital stay in the cancer area we haven't demonstrated quite as strong a benefits we can show that if you get some exercise before surgery that you are a fitter prior to surgery and that you end up being fitter and and able to function better physically after surgery but not really the reductions in say length of Hospital stay or the complication rate which is some of the key outcomes that we're seeing in other um surgical Endeavors”