Let’s use best practice prehabilitation to improve patients’ health before the upcoming “battle” Prehabilitation involves interventions aimed at improving patients’ health before an anticipated upcoming physiologic stressor so that they are better able to withstand that stress. Prehabilitation emerged as a way to prepare soldiers for battle in the second world war. A study published in 1946 in The BMJ , entitled Prehabilitation, Rehabilitation, and Revocation in the Army, described an experiment in which “good food, lodging, hygiene, and recreation combined with controlled physical training and education” for a period of around two months was found to improve the health ratings of 85% of the 12 000 men who participated. The report stated that the participants’ outlook on life also improved, and that these physical and psychological changes were “astonishingly easy” to accomplish. Modern day military training continues to use similar interventions. Although the covid-19 pandemic is not a literal war, many people will have to “fight” a future infection, and what science has taught us since that study was published could be vital to helping affected patients …

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进行预防性治疗可以挽救大流行中的生命

在即将来临的“战斗”之前，让我们使用最佳实践预适应来改善患者的健康。预适应涉及旨在在预期的即将来临的生理压力之前改善患者健康的干预措施，以便他们能够更好地承受这种压力。进行预备训练可以使士兵为第二次世界大战的战斗做好准备。1946年发表在《美国军事杂志》上的一项名为《军队中的康复，康复和撤消》的研究描述了一个实验，其中“良好的饮食，住宿，卫生和娱乐与受控的体育锻炼和教育相结合”为期两个月被发现可以改善参加活动的12000名男性中85％的健康等级。报告指出，参与者的生活观也有所改善，而且这些身体和心理上的改变“非常容易”完成。现代军事训练继续使用类似的干预措施。尽管covid-19大流行并不是一场真正的战争，但许多人将不得不“抗击”未来的感染，自该研究发表以来，科学告诉我们的东西可能对帮助受影响的患者至关重要。