Going in for surgery? Sign up for some high-intensity (HIIT) sessions at the gym and you’ll recover quicker.
The exercises lower the risk of post-operative complications by 56 percent and reduce the length of your hospital stay by three days.
Complications after surgery are common: they happen to around 30 percent of all patients and half of all frail patients, and include cardiac complications, pneumonia, and bowel problems.
HIIT (high-intensity interval training) improves the health of the heart, and this is significant when you go in for surgery, say researchers at the University of Chicago. They analysed 12 studies that had included 832 patients with an average age of 66 and found that four to six weeks of HIIT before an operation had a significant effect on post-op recovery.
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