Cancer Rehabilitation
Fighting cancer, living with cancer, or surviving cancer all have different challenges. During the stages of cancer treatment or survivorship, there are many side-effects that are often not managed by oncologists or surgeons.
As your cancer rehabilitation physiotherapist, we step in and help you manage the side-effects of treatment.
Your Exercise Programme
Exercise is a vital part of surviving cancer, as research has shown.
On lower-energy days, your programme might include:
- Deep breathing exercises
- Gentle stretching
On better days, you might progress to:
- Weight training
- Walking or cycling
- Swimming
Your exercise programme is tailored to your current stage of treatment and how your body is responding, adjusting as you progress through your cancer journey.
What to Expect from Your Cancer Rehab Therapist
- An individual exercise programme tailored for you that you can do before, during, and after cancer treatment
- Evaluation and treatment of scars, with awareness of all the side-effects of your treatment
- Evaluation of abnormal breathing patterns, which commonly occur after breast cancer treatment, with breathing exercises to restore normal breathing
- Support for chemotherapy-related side-effects at different stages throughout your treatment
- Advice on managing fatigue, anxiety, memory loss, sleep disorders, weight control, and maintaining a healthy diet for optimum nutrition
Why Movement Matters
Exercise doesn't always mean running a marathon or lifting heavy weights. It means moving your body within its current limits. Our bodies are meant to move, and when we stop moving, aches and pains develop. Then we start moving less instead of moving more.
If exercise was a pill, we would all take it. We know the benefits of exercise, and research has proven this repeatedly.
Lymphoedema is often a consequence of cancer treatment, which is why cancer rehabilitation became an essential part of our therapy services.
We gladly assist and collaborate with like-minded, qualified lymphoedema therapists in different areas to make access to therapy more convenient for patients. Please ask us about this if Centurion or Groenkloof is not convenient.
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