Enhancing postoperative recovery with multimodal prehabilitation: the journey begins before surgery.

ABSTRACT: This narrative review explores multimodal prehabilitation, a patient-centered, evidence-based, and multidisciplinary approach to enhance postoperative recovery. It shifts the focus from traditional intraoperative and postoperative care to a comprehensive process beginning at diagnosis. Multimodal prehabilitation integrates exercise, nutrition, and psychological strategies to improve preoperative functional capacity and physiological reserve, enabling better management of surgical stress. The review examines prehabilitation's clinical efficacy, highlighting enhanced functional capacity as a key outcome. It details prehabilitation components: exercise (aerobic, resistance, and respiratory muscle training), nutritional optimization targeting modifiable risk factors such as malnutrition and sa

SUBMITTER: Cho AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12489586 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature