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Pre and Post Surgical Optimization in Lansing, MI
The Weeks Before and After Matter
For patients with a surgery date on the calendar — or one just behind them — who want their body in the best possible state for the event and the recovery.
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Surgical optimization touches almost every clinical category at the clinic. Six modalities map directly onto the pre-op-and-post-op question — some appear on both sides of the event, others lean toward one phase or the other.
Functional Medicine Consultation
The diagnostic root for a pre-op plan. A long-form visit to assess current nutritional status, inflammatory markers, metabolic health, and any modifiable contributors that can be addressed in the weeks leading up to the date. Useful again post-op when recovery is not progressing the way the surgical team expected.
IV Nutritional Therapy
The workhorse on both sides of the event. Pre-op IVs aim at nutrient loading — vitamin C, B-complex, glutathione, and amino acid combinations chosen by Dr. Eng against your specific picture. Post-op IVs shift toward repletion of what surgery and the surgical fast depleted, with hydration and immune-supportive infusions.
Molecular Hydrogen Inhalation Therapy
Mostly a post-operative tool. Inhaled molecular hydrogen has an emerging research base around inflammation modulation and tissue oxygenation — both of which the body is contending with during the early healing window. Introduced only when surgical clearance allows.
Red Light Therapy
Red and near-infrared light has one of the strongest research bases of any modality here for wound and incision healing specifically. Used post-op once the surgical team has cleared light exposure of the area — local sessions over the incision, or whole-body for systemic recovery support.
BEMER PEMF Therapy
Pulsed-field sessions designed to support microcirculation — the substrate every tissue uses to actually do repair work. Useful in the weeks before surgery to build a baseline; particularly useful in the post-op window once the surgeon has cleared lying on a mat.
Normatec Compression Therapy
The most directly relevant post-op tool for orthopedic and abdominal recovery — sequential pneumatic compression that supports edema management, lymphatic drainage, and circulation while a patient is otherwise less mobile. Always cleared with the surgical team first.
This lane sits naturally inside the clinic's broader functional recovery category — the hub page covers how recovery is approached here across athletic, post-injury, and post-surgical contexts together.
Why Surgical Optimization Matters
Surgery is a planned trauma. Even when it is done well by a skilled team — and most of the time it is — the body still has work to do on either side of the event. Going in, the metabolic, nutritional, and inflammatory state of your tissue genuinely affects how the operating room goes and how quickly you recover from it. Coming out, the body is asked to rebuild what was cut, reabsorb what was disturbed, and bring an immune system that may already have been stressed back to baseline.
Surgical teams handle the surgery itself excellently. What is less commonly part of the package is the optimization that surrounds the event — the four-to-eight weeks before, when nutritional status and inflammatory tone can actually be moved, and the early-to-mid recovery window, when the right supportive inputs can layer underneath a standard rehab protocol. That gap is what this lane addresses. The work is meant to be complementary to a patient's surgical team, never adversarial to it; Dr. Eng's role is body-resilience support, not surgical care.
Before Surgery: Pre-Op Optimization
Pre-op work at this clinic typically starts with a functional medicine consultation — a long-form evaluation of where your nutritional status, inflammatory markers, and metabolic baseline actually sit going into the date. From that picture, Dr. Eng builds a targeted plan: IV nutrient loading specific to what your labs are calling for, sleep and stress inputs in the lead-up, and where appropriate the PEMF and red-light layer to support circulation and cellular energy before the day. Four to eight weeks before surgery is the realistic working window for meaningful change. Shorter runs can still help; longer is generally better. This work is for elective and scheduled surgeries, not for emergent cases.
After Surgery: Post-Op Recovery Support
Post-op support waits for surgical clearance and then layers in around your standard rehab. IV therapy shifts from pre-op loading to repletion — replacing what the surgical fast and the procedure itself depleted, supporting immune recovery, and hydrating tissue that needs to do repair work. Hydrogen inhalation enters the picture where its emerging research base on inflammation and tissue oxygenation makes sense. Red light gets local time over incisions once the surgical team has cleared it; the wound-healing literature for photobiomodulation is genuinely encouraging for this application. BEMER supports microcirculation while you are less mobile. Normatec compression — the most directly relevant tool of the six for orthopedic and abdominal recovery — addresses edema and lymphatic drainage in the post-op weeks when activity is restricted.
A Coordinated Approach
Two principles run through this work and are non-negotiable. First: the surgeon is the primary, and any post-op restrictions — weight-bearing limits, activity windows, wound-care protocols, prescribed medications, lab follow-up — are honored without exception. Second: Dr. Eng will not introduce a modality your surgical team has not cleared, and where the right move is to call the surgeon's office to ask before adding something, she calls. Dr. Janet Eng is a board-certified emergency physician with thirty-plus years of clinical experience, fellowship-trained in medical toxicology, with continued training through the University of South Florida Morsani Personalized Medicine Course, A4M, AMMG, IFM, Frequency Specific Microcurrent, and My Injection Training, and currently participating in the AMSKU Ultrasound Fellowship — the kind of background that takes inter-team coordination as table stakes rather than as an afterthought.
How the Consultation Maps to Your Surgical Date
The opening visit is built around your specific surgical situation. Dr. Eng will ask what procedure is scheduled (or what one you are recovering from), the date, who your surgical team is, what they have said about timeline and restrictions, and the current state of your overall health. From that picture, she proposes either a pre-op support plan timed against the date or a post-op support plan timed against the surgeon's protocols. The plan is individualized — not a packaged protocol — and the goal at intake is alignment between her work and the work your surgical team is already doing.
Questions About Surgical Optimization
Four to eight weeks before the date is the realistic ideal — long enough to actually move the markers Dr. Eng is targeting (nutrient repletion, inflammatory tone, metabolic baseline) before the day arrives. Shorter windows can still help; a two-week run is more limited but not pointless. This work applies to elective and scheduled surgeries; emergent or urgent cases skip this lane and go straight to the operating room, which is the right call.
Yes. Dr. Eng is a board-certified physician and communicates with surgical teams when it is clinically appropriate — sharing the supportive plan she is running on her end, asking about post-op restrictions, and following the surgeon's clearance before introducing any modality on the recovery side. She does not work around your surgical team; she works with them.
No — additive. Standard post-op care, surgical follow-up appointments, and any prescribed physical therapy or rehab come first and stay the backbone of recovery. The work here sits as a supportive layer alongside that backbone, not in place of it. If the surgical team or PT says wait, the wait is honored.
Many surgical types benefit from optimization on either side of the event — orthopedic joint replacement and arthroscopy are common, abdominal and gynecologic procedures show up frequently, oncologic surgery recovery is a meaningful use case, and cardiac patients sometimes arrive after the procedure looking for resilience support. Dr. Eng will be honest at the consultation about whether her tools are a clinical fit for your specific surgery or whether the realistic upside is too small to justify the work.
Typically these therapies are out-of-network and not covered by Michigan insurance plans. Many patients use HSA or FSA funds toward the work, and the office can produce superbills if your plan offers out-of-network reimbursement for related services. Call 517-719-0730 for current per-visit and per-modality rates.
It depends on the surgery and the surgical team's protocols. Some modalities are appropriate within the first week — gentle IV repletion, certain forms of red light away from the incision — while others wait until the surgeon clears them. Dr. Eng will not introduce a modality your surgical team has not cleared, and she will ask the questions she needs to ask before adding anything to your post-op picture.
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