Physical Therapy Helps Cancer Patients |
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Date: March 23, 2008
Colorado Springs Gazette |
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For decades, oncologists have focused on ways to help patients survive cancer. What they didn't pay much attention to was what happened when people did. That thinking has begun to change in recent years with advancements in treatment and an increase in the number of survivors.
A growing number of hospitals are turning to fitness to combat cancer and often-debilitating treatments. The idea replaces the longheld notion that patients, weakened and wasted by their ordeal, should simply go home and rest, left to regain ground on their own. Memorial Hospital Central began offering exercise and other physical therapies to cancer patients two years ago. In January, Penrose-St. Francis Health Services launched a program. Both hospitals say patients have generally experienced fewer side effects from chemotherapy and made bigger strides in bouncing back.
Hospital officials predict physical therapy will be a staple in cancer treatment in another five years.[Read Entire Article] |
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