It is important to be as fit as possible before surgery or treatment. A healthy lifestyle can have a good influence on this. This way, patients can cope better with treatment, they recover faster and are less likely to have symptoms. Before surgery or treatment, several health care providers look at lifestyle and fitness together with the patient. Then the patient starts working on five components related to being fit. We call this prehabilitation.

In this Divi, patients receive information about prehabilitation. We cover the components of physical fitness, nutritional status, mental toughness, comorbidities and frailty, and intoxications. All five components are explained using short animations.