Prehab Therapy
What Is Prehab Therapy?
Prehab is a stint of therapeutic exercises prior to undergoing a surgical procedure. Prehab is typically shorter than a course of rehabilitation and the goals differ. In rehabilitation, you are focused on returning to your pre-injury level, and perhaps being even stronger as you address underlying concerns that caused the initial pain, dysfunction, or both. With prehab, the goal is to improve your strength and endurance to the greatest degree possible prior to surgery to minimize the negative effects of the procedure.
How Can Prehab Therapy Help?
For many surgeries, there are unavoidable musculoskeletal side effects. The primary negative outcome following surgery is muscular atrophy or muscle loss. If a body part is immobilized and restricted of movement, a muscle is cut, or a muscle’s nerve or blood supply is interfered with, muscle size could decrease rapidly. This reduction in muscle size impairs a person’s strength, endurance, power, and balance.
While prehab will not prevent this atrophy from occurring, it will limit the severity. Prehab can lessen the decrease in muscle size, the loss in strength and power, and mobility. Strength and power will return more rapidly in someone with more recent training. The ability to quickly regain any lost skill, strength, or power is known as the reversibility principle and it can rapidly expedite your subsequent rehabilitation.
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