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Active exercises utilizing a facilitating device in the treatment of lymphedema resulting from breast cancer therapy
The aim of this study was to evaluate the reduction in volume of arm lymphedema secondary to breast cancer therapy utilizing an exercise facilitating device. Twenty-one women with arm lymphedema resulting from the surgical and radiotherapeutic treatment of breast cancer were randomly selected. Evalu...
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2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996058/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139989 http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/000120 |
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author | de Fátima Guerreiro Godoy, Maria Oliani, Antonio Helio Pereira de Godoy, Jose Maria |
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description | The aim of this study was to evaluate the reduction in volume of arm lymphedema secondary to breast cancer therapy utilizing an exercise facilitating device. Twenty-one women with arm lymphedema resulting from the surgical and radiotherapeutic treatment of breast cancer were randomly selected. Evaluation was made by water-displacement volumetry before and after each session. The patients were submitted to a series of active exercises using a facilitating device for four 12-minute sessions with intervals of 3 minutes between sessions in the sitting position with alignment of the spinal column. The lymphedematous arm was maintained under compression using a cotton-polyester sleeve. The active exercising device used was a mobile flexion bar fixed on a metal base at a height of 30 cm from the tabletop and at a distance of 10 cm from the patient’s body. The paired t-test was utilized for statistical analysis with an alpha error of 5% (p-value ≤0.05) being considered significant. The initial mean volume of the arms was 2,089.9 and the final volume was 2,023.0 mL with a mean loss of 66.9 mL (p-value <0.001). In conclusion, active exercises utilizing facilitating devices can contribute to a reduction in size of lymphedematous limbs. |
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spelling | pubmed-29960582010-12-06 Active exercises utilizing a facilitating device in the treatment of lymphedema resulting from breast cancer therapy de Fátima Guerreiro Godoy, Maria Oliani, Antonio Helio Pereira de Godoy, Jose Maria Ger Med Sci Article The aim of this study was to evaluate the reduction in volume of arm lymphedema secondary to breast cancer therapy utilizing an exercise facilitating device. Twenty-one women with arm lymphedema resulting from the surgical and radiotherapeutic treatment of breast cancer were randomly selected. Evaluation was made by water-displacement volumetry before and after each session. The patients were submitted to a series of active exercises using a facilitating device for four 12-minute sessions with intervals of 3 minutes between sessions in the sitting position with alignment of the spinal column. The lymphedematous arm was maintained under compression using a cotton-polyester sleeve. The active exercising device used was a mobile flexion bar fixed on a metal base at a height of 30 cm from the tabletop and at a distance of 10 cm from the patient’s body. The paired t-test was utilized for statistical analysis with an alpha error of 5% (p-value ≤0.05) being considered significant. The initial mean volume of the arms was 2,089.9 and the final volume was 2,023.0 mL with a mean loss of 66.9 mL (p-value <0.001). In conclusion, active exercises utilizing facilitating devices can contribute to a reduction in size of lymphedematous limbs. German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2010-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2996058/ /pubmed/21139989 http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/000120 Text en Copyright © 2010 Guerreiro Godoy et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en). You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Article de Fátima Guerreiro Godoy, Maria Oliani, Antonio Helio Pereira de Godoy, Jose Maria Active exercises utilizing a facilitating device in the treatment of lymphedema resulting from breast cancer therapy |
title | Active exercises utilizing a facilitating device in the treatment of lymphedema resulting from breast cancer therapy |
title_full | Active exercises utilizing a facilitating device in the treatment of lymphedema resulting from breast cancer therapy |
title_fullStr | Active exercises utilizing a facilitating device in the treatment of lymphedema resulting from breast cancer therapy |
title_full_unstemmed | Active exercises utilizing a facilitating device in the treatment of lymphedema resulting from breast cancer therapy |
title_short | Active exercises utilizing a facilitating device in the treatment of lymphedema resulting from breast cancer therapy |
title_sort | active exercises utilizing a facilitating device in the treatment of lymphedema resulting from breast cancer therapy |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996058/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139989 http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/000120 |
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