North Wales patients given gym workouts before major surgery

Jeremy Norton, 63, who has been through the whole process is still using tips he learned in prehab even post-surgery.

Mr Norton, from Broughton, Flintshire, said his bowel cancer diagnosis last December came as a shock.

“It was a time when my life went upside down, really. It was a time of great uncertainty, everything else was out of control, I just thought this was something that I could control, something I could do for myself to get me stronger.”

He found it helpful to be exercising alongside others going through their own health issues and that his recovery was much faster as a result.

“I was out of the hospital in five days which I didn’t expect,” he said.

“In on the Thursday, out on the Monday and back at work in four weeks.

“So I put that down to prehab – the strength it gave me was part of that recovery process.”