Rehabilitation for lung cancer patients is a common part of improving lung function in people with the disease. Increasingly, pre-rehabilitation, which occurs after a lung cancer diagnosis but before ...

The rehab mindset whispers, “Finish your cancer treatment and then we will send you to rehab to strengthen your body.” The patient is passive in this equation. Problem solving is sequential - once we ...

Prehabilitation can help patients become eligible for certain cancer treatments, or also help them recover from therapies, while also improving their overall health and fitness, an expert explained.

Cancer patients who followed special exercise, diet and wellbeing plans before surgery spent on average three fewer days in hospital, according to new research. In some cases patients could be moved ...

A large clinical trial published in JAMA Surgery shows that prehabilitation (also called prehab) can reduce disability after surgery in older adults with frailty, provided they are able to fully take ...