Healio reports that Heidi Prather, DO, physiatrist at HSS shared her team’s research comparing outcomes like length of stay, the need for intensive care, readmissions, infections and persistent pain in patients who followed an intensive lifestyle medicine program before surgery and those who were given basic information about lifestyle changes but were not enrolled in the program.

Dr. Prather presented her proof-of-concept study in a poster at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine meeting.

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