Cool Science thread

[MultiVerse]

Prehab works better than rehab for surgery patients. Six weeks of prehabilitation with exercise and nutrition to reduce morbidity led to an 85% reduction in the rate of postoperative complications:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...stract/2838015

[Dantheman]

Sounds like it was a 15% reduction, not 85%. That said, prehab being effective for sarcopenic patients is entirely unsurprising. Also, anyone you can get doing prehab is probably going to be a lot more compliant with rehab.

I wouldn't extrapolate this out to athletes, or leap to the conclusion that prehab matters more than rehab.

[MultiVerse]

Good points. Except the reduction in complications post-surgery was 50-percent for the upfront surgery group versus a little over 10-percent for the prehab group, or about 85-percent reduction. This is becoming standard practice in recommending pre-natal care too due resulting lower complications

[Dantheman]

You're right. They wrote in the Key Findings summary that it reduced morbidity by "almost one-fifth" which threw me off and appears to be erroneous.