Exercise-Based Oncology Rehabilitation

The Response of Hematological Factors to Home-Based Exercise Rehabilitation and Center-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation in Coronary Artery Disease

Background: Hematological disorders such as increased white blood cells and platelets (elevated white blood cell and platelets) in coronary heart disease (CHD) are associated with increased mortality. Exercise could specifically influence hematologic factors. The purpose of this study was to survey the response of hematological factors to home-based exercise rehabilitation and center-based card...

Exercise-based approaches to dysphagia rehabilitation.

Rehabilitative techniques for dysphagia (swallowing impairment) increasingly employ exercise modeled on methods used to train muscles in sports medicine. Three techniques in particular show promise for improving muscle strength and function related to swallowing: the Shaker exercise, expiratory muscle strength training, and tongue pressure resistance training. All three techniques invoke princi...

The history of exercise-based pulmonary rehabilitation

Role of exercise for cancer rehabilitation in UK hospitals: a survey of oncology nurses.

A growing body of evidence indicates the potential benefits of exercise for cancer patients but little is known about exercise promotion within cancer services. A postal survey of oncology nurses in UK hospitals was conducted to ascertain the extent to which exercise has a role in cancer care. The survey design was based on the Total Design Method leading to a completed sample of 221 (62% respo...

Exercise in cardiac rehabilitation.

Introduction The notion that exercise is dangerous for patients with heart disease dogged the use of such treatment for the first half of the twentieth century. It was a further 30 years before exercise became accepted in rehabilitation. The controversy is made more diYcult by the fact that exercise may be dangerous for some patients in some circumstances. Exercise is now widely believed to ben...