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Cancer and Palliative Care

Physioholistics offers a specialist physiotherapy service to patients who are living with cancer as well as those patients who are in the palliative stages of their illness. Cancer and its treatments can cause physical changes and dealing with these is often stressful. If you are living with or after cancer and want to make a positive change to your life then Physioholistics may be able to help you.

Physiotherapy may help you with:

Reduced mobility
Reduced muscle strength
Reduced joint mobility
Frequent falls
Loss of function/independence
Advice regarding equipment
Advice regarding exercise during and after chemotherapy and radiotherapy
Advice and rehabilitation post surgery
Personalised exercise programmes
Advice on symptom control
Coping strategies for breathlessness, fatigue and anxiety
Lymphoedema advice
Connective tissue massage to relieve tightness following mastectomy or head and neck surgery
Advice/rehabilitation following spinal cord compression
Advice to carers and families on the most appropriate way they can help you
Holistic therapies for patients and carers

Exercise and Cancer Treatment

Keeping active can help you cope with some of the effects of cancer treatment, and exercise after cancer treatment can be a positive step in helping you recover. It is often difficult to know what kind of exercise and to do and how often to do it. Physioholistics can give you advice about this and provide you with an individualised exercise programme to meet your goals.

Whether you are new to exercise or are used to being active, regular physical activity can help you feel better in lots of ways. For people living with or after cancer being physically active is safe and has lots of benefits. If your cancer is advanced, being physically active can help improve your symptoms.

Exercise can help you to:

Maintain or improve your physical fitness
Improve your balance therefore reducing the risk of falls
Prevent muscle wasting
Reduce cancer related fatigue
Reduce stress and anxiety
Reduce nausea
Improve appetite and reduce constipation
Improve sleep
Maintain bone and heart health
Improve your circulation and reduce the risk of blood clots
Regain some control back and a sense of being “normal” again
Be less dependent on others to do normal activities of daily living
Improve your quality of life and self esteem

For some cancer types including breast cancer and bowel cancer, being active may also reduce your risk of the cancer coming back.

To discuss a treatment or arrange an appointment please call 0161 439 1631 or 07736453597 or email info@physioholistics.co.uk

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