WASHINGTON – One of the big frustrations of surgery: There’s little way to know if you’ll be a fast or slow healer, someone who feels back to normal in a week or is out of work for a month with ...

Surviving a major illness is only the first step. Doctors warn that recovery can take months and involves physical healing, ...

A new analysis led by surgeons at UCLA Health finds that psychological prehabilitation can significantly enhance recovery after surgery. The research, led by Anne E. Hall in the lab of Dr. Justine Lee ...

Brain surgery recovery involves a hospital stay, follow-up monitoring, and rehabilitation. Your type of procedure will affect what to expect for each of these stages, as well as risks to be aware of.

Laparoscopic surgery, being minimally invasive, often allows for a quicker recovery compared to open abdominal surgery (laparotomy). Recovery after endometriosis surgery typically takes several weeks ...

The activity level of a subset of immune cells is a strong predictor of how quickly surgery patients bounce back from postsurgical fatigue and pain, according to new research from the Stanford ...

A new study published in The BMJ suggests that prehabilitation (also called prehab) may be able to reduce complications and length of hospitalization after surgery, while also improving quality of ...

which usually includes some surgical site discomfort and swelling. You may also experience the following complications after a mastectomy, notes the ACS: Chest or upper arm numbness Limited movement ...

James Cook University Hospital is introducing the equipment next month to improve patient outcomes.

A new study comparing the effectiveness of propofol-remifentanil and propofol-ketamine combinations for the removal of all four third molars found that the latter is a less-than-perfect alternative to ...