How We Improve Post Hernia Surgery Results
We understand that undergoing hernia surgery can leave you with a lot of questions and concerns. How long will the repair last? How can I improve my results? What should I expect in terms of pain around what happens after surgery.
At Hernia Clinic Hampshire, we’re here to ease those worries and guide you through the steps we take to get you the best post-surgery results. Our goal is simple: to help you get back to feeling better as quickly and comfortably as possible.
By Helping:
You Return To Activity Quicker
We have pioneered approaches to hernia repair that help you get back to the activities that you enjoy quicker. Our approach helps you through:
Home The Same Day
Our approach to surgery using local anaesthesia and sedation is more gentle on the body than general anaesthetic. Patients walk out of the hospital the same day as their operation.
Our Post-Surgery Advice Page
We provide you with information on what you should expect to be doing after surgery, and typical timelines for certain activities like bathing and exercise.
Hernia Supports
Hernia Supports help you feel more confident and comfortable being mobile and returning to activity after surgery, particularly when starting our post-surgery exercise programme.
Our Post-Surgery Exercise Programme
Our exercise programme has been specially designed to help you safely get active early on, while re-strengthening your abdominal muscles and improving your repair.
Lower the Risk of Long-term Pain
Managing your pain in the early recovery period after surgery has been shown to reduce long-term discomfort. There are many steps we take to lower the risk of long-term pain after your hernia repair:
Local Anaesthetic and Sedation
In repairs using local anaesthesia and sedation, local anaesthetic helps to change how your nerves respond to tissue injury, reduce the pain response, and provide good pain relief for 12+ hours.
Self-Fixating Mesh
The mesh we use in inguinal hernia treatment spreads tension equally over a wide area, reducing discomfort. The fixating barbs dissolve to avoid long term-discomfort.
Absorbable Fixation With Mesh
Any extra fixation used with the mesh for inguinal hernia repairs dissolves, so it cannot cause long-term discomfort.
Combat Anxiety
Anxiety and the unexpected are positively related to pain perception and experience of pain from tissue injury . We provide extensive online advice on what to expect after hernia surgery in order to bring you peace of mind.
Hernia Supports
We advise using these both before surgery to help manage symptoms, and after surgery to reduce bruising and pain.
Hernia supports also reduce pain by supporting your repair and abdominal muscles when they have little strength post-surgery.
Our Post-Surgery Exercise Programme
These exercises help influence how your scar remodels and how comfortable it is, and so lower the risk of long-term pain.
Lower the Risk of Recurrence
One of our top priorities is lowering the chances of your hernia returning. Here’s how we work to prevent recurrence and improve the outcome of your surgery:
The Mesh We Use
Mesh repairs are standard practice today and have a much lower risk of recurrence than suture-only repairs.
Personalised Care
Our Consultant Surgeon discusses and creates a personalised surgery plan that meets your unique needs.
Our Highly Experienced Surgeon
Studies show the more cases a surgeon or surgical centre has, the lower their recurrence rates tend to be. Our expert Consultant Surgeon has repaired around 2,000 hernias!