Why Treat Patients with a Major Orthopaedic Surgery Only to Send Them Back to the Vulnerable Conditions That Made Them Sick in the First Place? A Conceptual Scenario to Improve Patient’s Journey

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Figure 1 A framework for integrating a health promotion clinic based on the HEPAS principles to develop a health system that takes care for the orthopaedic patient before and after surgery, ensuring that individuals are willing to maintain in the long term the behaviours learned during the perioperative path of care.

Abbreviation: HEPAS, healthy eating, physical activity, sleep hygiene.