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Outpatient Prehabilitation Service

Outpatient Prehabilitation Service

The Prehabilitation service is a pre-surgical outpatient multidisciplinary allied health team providing physiotherapy, dietetics, and clinical psychology.

The service aims to improve patients’ physical, nutritional, and psychological health prior to complex surgery or stem cell transplant and is available to patients under the medical governance of Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Health Care Group.

 

 

Prehabilitation benefits

  • Optimising physical and psychological readiness for surgery
  • Reduced time in hospital
  • Reduced risk of post-surgical complications and the need to return to hospital
  • Improved post-surgery function
  • Gaining health advice and strategies that may have longer lasting benefits beyond the current health issue

 

Treatments

  • Physical, nutritional, and psychological health assessments
  • Group and at-home exercise programs
  • Nutritional advice, food fortification strategies and nutritional supplements
  • Individual and group psychotherapy implementing cognitive and behavioural change strategies

 

Inclusion criteria

Patients planned for:

  • Thoracic surgery, pelvic surgery
  • Major abdominal surgery
  • Upper Gastrointestinal surgeries - Whipple/esophagectomy
  • Colorectal/gynae – laparoscopic colorectal resection, pelvic exenteration
  • Urology - cystoprostatectomy
  • Pre stem cell transplant patients
  • Head and neck surgery

 

To find out if you are eligible for the Prehabilitation service, please discuss the service with your treating team at Sir Charles Gairdner and Osborne Park Hospitals.

 

Find out more on our Prehabilitation services

 

Open physiotherapy video (external site) [2:11]

Open psychology video (external site) [1:48]

Open dietetics video (external site) [1:48]

Last Updated: 26/08/2024
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