One of the things I found helpful in my practice for patients that are understandably concerned or or hesitant to have surgery is when possible to give them an opportunity to talk to one of my patients who has had a similar surgery in the past, ideally recently, and then they can go over and discuss what their experiences were like.
And often if they see a patient in in the office who just had surgery a couple weeks before and is walking around, fine, obviously sometimes with pain, that sets a lot of their fears at ease.