Mitesh Patel
Aastha Oncology Associate, HCG Cancer Centre, India
Title: Significance of physiotherapy rehabilitation in cancer
Biography
Biography: Mitesh Patel
Abstract
Aim: To provide an overview of the significance of Physiotherapy (PT) in promoting the quality of life among cancer survivors particularly the oral, breast and GI carcinoma. Method: PT plays a pivotal role in cancer Rehabilitation and the needs of the patient with the patient as well as the rehabilitation team, there by promoting the QOL (Quality of Life) of survivors. PT helps a cancer survivor to obtain maximum physical, social, psychological and vocational functioning within the limits imposed by disease and its treatment. PT offers muscle reeducation; prevent muscle fatigue, improving cardio respiratory endurance. PT offers exercises, myofascial release, Passive modalities and tailor made home based exercise program, thereby attesting to biopsychosocial models of cancer rehabilitation. Result: The PT for oral, breast, lung and GI cancer improves functional capacity and patients’ reported outcomes across a range of cancer diagnoses. Conclusion: We believed that exercise may is just not to be healthy but may in fact therapeutic. The field must bridge extensive knowledge of integrative exercise physiology with clinical oncology and cancer biology to provide a basis of individualized targeted approaches, which may place exercise training as an integrated component of standard cancer care.