Prehabilitation and Rehabilitation as Pathways to Improved Perioperative Analgesia

This chapter details a pathway for improved perioperative analgesiaPerioperative analgesia when incorporating practices of prehabilitationPrehabilitation and rehabilitation. Following a discussion regarding the experience of postoperative painPostoperative pain and the riskRisks factors for the development of chronic painChronic pain, the chapter outlines a longitudinal assessmentAssessment and treatment for patients, including preoperative riskRisks stratification, multimodal analgesicAnalgesics selection, and teams-based approaches for improved care. PrehabilitationPrehabilitation and rehabilitation strategies such as physical therapy, water therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, and cryotherapy are explored further.