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Activities for Supporting Work Ability of Ageing Workers
Published in Joanna Bugajska, Teresa Makowiec-Dąbrowska, Tomasz Kostka, Individual and Occupational Determinants, 2020
There have been reports indicating that the programs carried out before the surgery (3–8 weeks), primarily based on exercise and dietary interventions, increase the functional reserve of patients and can improve the operating outcome and reduce the risk of complications (prehabilitation). Such programs include Optimization of health status by controlling the coexisting diseases, discontinuing harmful habits such as smoking, and controlling and modifying the amount of medications taken.PA/exercises, especially aerobic training and exercises, increasing muscle mass and muscle strength (resistance exercises), and breathing exercises.Dietary interventions related to supplementation of nutritional deficiencies, as well as the optimization of the nutrients before the procedure to compensate for the catabolic processes after the treatment and prevent the loss of LBM.Decreasing anxiety and mood perturbations.
Telemedicine in patients with peripheral arterial disease: is it worth the effort?
Published in Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2019
Marjolein E. Haveman, Simone F. Kleiss, Kirsten F. Ma, Cornelis G. Vos, Çağdaş Ünlü, Richte C.L. Schuurmann, Reinoud P.H. Bokkers, Hermie J. Hermens, Jean-Paul P.M. De Vries
Furthermore, telemonitoring could already be of additional value in the pre-operative phase by providing information for pre-operative screening, decision-making, and optimizing patients before surgery. The latter is known as prehabilitation, which is currently of increasing interest and is based on the ‘better in, better out’ principle [34]. In PAD patients, telemedicine could assist in prehabilitation by activity monitoring and coaching, for example, in patients who receive supervised exercise therapy from a physical therapist. Furthermore, mobile applications that consist of information and questionnaires can play an important role in (pre-operative) secondary risk prevention by lifestyle management coaching in this fragile population.