Effect of exercise based prehabilitation on postoperative pain in breast cancer patients: a systematic review with meta-analysis
Asier del Arco, Celia García-Chico, Kayvan Khoramipour, Arkaitz Castañeda-Babarro, Alejandro Santos-Lozano, Jose Pinto-Fraga · 2026
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Description
Del Arco and colleagues ask in 2026 whether exercise-based prehabilitation, training begun before surgery to build physical readiness, reduces pain after breast cancer surgery. The approach helps in other operations, but its effect on pain here was unsettled.
The systematic review gathered six randomized trials with 519 women. Their programs ran from one to nine weeks and mixed aerobic work, resistance training, mobility, and stretching. Only three trials, with 157 women, could be pooled for the main outcome of pain one month after surgery. The pooled result pointed slightly toward less pain with prehabilitation, but the difference was small and statistically non-significant, and the estimate rested on few studies. The authors describe the programs as safe and feasible, and call for larger, higher-quality trials.
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| CREATOR | Asier del Arco, Celia García-Chico, Kayvan Khoramipour, Arkaitz Castañeda-Babarro, Alejandro Santos-Lozano, Jose Pinto-Fraga |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |