Preparing your body and mind before cancer treatment can make a meaningful difference to how you cope, recover, and feel. Cancer prehabilitation focuses on building strength, fitness, and emotional resilience ahead of treatment.
Research shows that people who take part in prehab can recover faster and can have fewer complications. There are cancer-specific prehab programme which have been carefully designed to meet the needs of Lincolnshire residents.
Explore the prehab offers below and take an active step toward feeling stronger, supported, and prepared for what lies ahead.
Fighting Fit Prehab
Fighting Fit Prehab offers prehab specific physical activity sessions for individuals who have received a diagnosis of cancer. The low-impact fitness session will include up to 45 mins of low impact physical activity followed by the opportunity for refreshments and peer support.
The United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals Cancer Prehabilitation Service can help support some patients health and wellbeing as part of their cancer journey. The service supports people with a cancer diagnosis to be in the best possible health before they start their cancer treatment.
The United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals prehabilitation service is occupational therapy-led, and the service works as part of the wider multidisciplinary team that supports people to achieve improved health and wellbeing.
If you would like more information on this offer, please speak with your Cancer Nurse Specialist or one of Lincolnshire's Macmillan Information & Support Centre's Team.
