Postoperative Support

Rehabilitation specialists and clinicians helped patients learn rehabilitation practices, understand protocols, and build self-efficacy. Emotional encouragement and a calm presence helped reduce postoperative distress. Multidisciplinary interventions may reduce kinesiophobia better than routine physiotherapy by gradually exposing patients to meaningful real-world tasks. Movement beliefs differed, with some patients fearing movement after surgery and others believing they did not need assistance. Immediately after surgery, patients experienced both physical and psychological discomforts including nausea, weakness, pain, swelling, dizziness, and helplessness. Patients strongly relied on caregivers during the first 72 hours after surgery, particularly for walking and toileting.