Throughout a person’s cancer experience, it is critical to maintain the things in life that are important to you – energy, activity level, relationships. In fact, research shows that an active lifestyle that includes exercise can actually enhance your body’s recovery and contribute to a better quality of life during and after cancer treatment. Life doesn’t stop after cancer, but cancer can change a person’s life.
Survival rates are steadily increasing for those affected by cancer. More people than ever before live through a cancer occurrence, but it brings new challenges. For many cancer survivors the aggressive, life saving interventions may take a harsh toll on the human body. So while the fight against cancer is won, patients may experience debilitating side effects that can be long lasting. Fatigue, joint pain and stiffness, weakness, emotional strain, bowel or bladder dysfunction, muscular pain, mobility limitations, lymphedema, chemo brain, neuropathy and significant physical deconditioning are just some of the after effects possible with cancer treatments . . . and may not show up until years after treatment ends.
Read the full-text article at Oncology Rehab and Wellness Resources Survivor Blog: Talk About Cancer Rehab.
