WHAT OUR PATIENTS ARE SAYING:

鈥淚 am Katherine, 59yr old & a 12yr cancer survivor and double amputee skateboarder, yogi & swimmer. 听 I am athletic!听

My husband Andre has never been. 听He was your classic couch potato when in November he was Dx with invasive colon cancer. 听He was frail, & very anemic, needing transfusions. 听 Andr茅 was barely making it through a day. 听He had aged years in just months!

The multidisciplinary health care Andr茅 received at POP made a huge difference in the outcome of his cancer journey! 听Prior to evaluation Andr茅 was convinced that this would not work, and did not want to participate. He was so weak!

It took only one visit to POP for Andr茅 to be willing to 鈥渢ry鈥�. 听听With their expertise in the benefits of nutrition, exercise & pre-op care he immediately began to feel stronger! The team was so encouraging!

By the time he had his surgery he was stronger than ever before and sailed through the surgery and recovery so easily.听

Fast forward three months and the results are phenomenal! Andre is keeping up with his fitness. 听He has done major renovations on our home. 听Andr茅 looks and acts ten years younger. 听He is now happy and healthy and we would like to thank POP for this life saving change in his health habits.听

I am elated that he was chosen to participate in this awesome program. 听The POP team gave us such wonderful care that it is easy to continue with the program at home!! Andre is out biking at sun up every day on his new bike, still competing with the fitness watch!!! 听Now we can ride together!!!

Thank you guys!!!鈥�

鈥淭he exercise and relaxation techniques were both useful. I would recommend this program to everyone.鈥�

鈥淭he expertise of the team helped me to participate actively in the program.鈥�

鈥淭wo months after surgery I consider myself in better condition than a year ago.鈥�

鈥淚 consider myself very fortunate to be one of the participants of your 鈥減rehabilitation study鈥� program. I have benefitted immensely from the collective hard work of all your team members. It has helped me to withstand the stress and fear associated with pre- and post-surgery.鈥�

鈥淭he prehabilitation program prepared her to such an extent that during the rehabilitation period, she was able to reach what was expected at 5 months in 6 weeks鈥�. (Quoted by the patient鈥檚 physiotherapist dealing with an elderly patient after very serious spinal surgery).鈥�

An appreciative patient of POP talks about her experience with POP and how the program helped her not only recover to baseline in good time but to excel beyond her baseline, empowering herself to keep exercising, eating properly and relaxing henceforth.

Please open the link and go to page 104-105.

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OUR DOCTORS ARE SAYING:

鈥淭he nutritional aspect ensures that they [patients] are physically as well as they can possibly be before they go into surgery.听 The exercise part of the program increases their physical resilience and the psychology part is really important in order to decrease their anxiety and give them strategies to help them cope.鈥�

鈥淭his program is filling the void [between diagnosis and surgery] in a creative way, helping patients to improve their health while waiting for surgery instead of waiting around for things to get worse.鈥�