Recovery Care

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? 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.

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:

Reduced Post-Surgery Pain

Being active soon after your hernia surgery improves your results by reducing post-surgery pain and by influencing how the wound heals and the scar forms.

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

Our Hernia Advice page provides 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 Hernia Surgery Recovery Exercise Programme.

All patients who completed a survey and wore hernia supports during this programme felt that they helped them perform the exercises. The majority found that they relieved discomfort and helped them return to activity.

Our Hernia Surgery Recovery Exercise Programme

Our Hernia Surgery Recovery Exercise Programme has been specially designed to help you safely get active early on, improve long-term comfort in the repair and decrease the likelihood of your hernia coming back.

Nearly every patient who completed a survey believed that our programme helped their recovery.

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 have been shown to worsen one’s perception of pain 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 Hernia Surgery Recovery 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:

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!

The Mesh We Use

Mesh repairs are standard practice today and have a much lower risk of recurrence than suture-only repairs.

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