Improving health before hip/knee joint replacement surgery

What is Prehabilitation?

Prehabilitation (Prehab) is a health care program to improve your health and daily functioning while you prepare for your hip or knee joint replacement surgery.

What will I do in Prehab?

You and your family doctor provide information to the surgeon and the Prehab team. The team will review the information and meet with you for an initial assessment, if required.  If you and the team decide that Prehab would be of benefit, advice and/or treatment to optimize your health and function before surgery, the service will be provided. However, based on the patient’s overall health, not all patients will need to attend Prehab.

Areas covered in your Prehab program may include: improving exercise tolerance and strength, improving nutrition for healing and weight loss, increasing your ability to manage daily activities, pain management, smoking cessation, and optimizing mental well-being and social supports. These factors may lead to a faster recovery from your surgery and potentially decrease complications. The Prehab team will work as a unit to plan a program that best suits your needs.

For more information, please contact us at bfriesen@wrha.mb.ca or
jhodkinson@wrha.mb.ca