You may have heard of patients being advised to become more physically fit prior to surgery. There’s a name for improving fitness and diet before surgery. Its called prohabilitation and an analysis clinical trials shows fewer complications, less time in the hospital, improved recovery and quality of life after surgery. The Canadian researchers wrote in the journal BMJ say the review involving fifteen thousand patients still needs clarity about which prohabilitation component is most effective—exercise, nutrition or those combined with psychosocial support. Their review found exercise was associated with a fifty percent lower risk of complications compared with usual care. Nutritional changes were linked to a thirty-eight percent lower risk.