“…Nine systematic reviews (Alshewaier et al, 2017, Blasco et al, 2021, Fenton et al, 2021, Husted et al, 2020, Katsura et al, 2015, Potts et al, 2022, Rodrigues et al, 2021, Wang et al, 2021, Wang et al, 2016) provided evidence on the effectiveness of preoperative exercise interventions on improving outcomes of patients awaiting elective surgery. Six of the systematic reviews focussed on orthopaedic surgical procedures (three total knee replacement/arthroplasty, two anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, and one on both total knee replacement and total hip replacement); two systematic reviews on cardiac and abdominal surgery, and one on cardiac surgery.…”