Listening Time — 25:46
Editor-in-Chief Alan Jette discusses the benefits of prehabilitation with Kazuhiro Hayashi and Kathleen Sluka, whose recent systematic review concluded that preoperative exercise has a modest effect on pain, function, and quality of life in the first six months after joint replacement surgery.
As the benefits were seen across exercise types, Sluka recommends clinicians use a person-centered approach to "set up a program to be successful" by giving patients "something they can do … and working with them to figure out what that is." Hayashi and Sluka are co-authors of the article "Preoperative Exercise Has a Modest Effect on Postoperative Pain, Function, Quality of Life, and Complications: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis."
Our Speakers
Alan M. Jette, PT, PhD, FAPTA, is editor-in-chief of PTJ: Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal.
Kazuhiro Hayashi, PT, PhD, is a visiting scholar in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at the University of Iowa.
Kathleen Sluka, PT, PhD, FAPTA, is a professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at the University of Iowa.
