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Exercises for Cancer Survivors
Exercises for Cancer Survivors
Stretching and Strength Training
Some cancer survivors are under the impression that inactivity will decrease fatigue and speed recovery. However, exercising during and after cancer surgery and treatments is helpful for one's physical and mental well-being. This book will show you how to improve your recovery.
Carol Michaels has over 17 years of experience as a fitness professional and as a cancer exercise specialist. During this time, she has worked with hundreds of cancer patients. Recovery Fitness® was developed from data collected from her fitness training practice and the collaboration of many health professionals. The Recovery Fitness® cancer exercise program is a recommended and empowering method for cancer patients.
Praise for Exercises for Cancer Survivors
Fitness & Cancer: Helping the Recovery Process
"After breast cancer surgery, I advise my patients to take steps in a positive direction and improve their emotional, spiritual and physical health. Our physical bodies carry us through this life and are intimately connected to our emotional and spiritual health. We cannot heal one without the others. I personally have changed my life for the better by starting and maintaining a regular exercise program. Part of my responsibility as a healer is to inspire my patients to take care of their own bodies after breast cancer treatment.
Carol Michaels's sensitive and personal approach to cancer recovery fitness has helped so many of my patients achieve wholeness and the ability to be optimistic about life again. This is a vital part of the recovery process."
Nancy Elliott, MD, FACS
Director, Montclair Breast Center
Stretching and Strength Training
Some cancer survivors are under the impression that inactivity will decrease fatigue and speed recovery. However, exercising during and after cancer surgery and treatments is helpful for one's physical and mental well-being. This book will show you how to improve your recovery.
Carol Michaels has over 17 years of experience as a fitness professional and as a cancer exercise specialist. During this time, she has worked with hundreds of cancer patients. Recovery Fitness® was developed from data collected from her fitness training practice and the collaboration of many health professionals. The Recovery Fitness® cancer exercise program is a recommended and empowering method for cancer patients.
Praise for Exercises for Cancer Survivors
Fitness & Cancer: Helping the Recovery Process
"After breast cancer surgery, I advise my patients to take steps in a positive direction and improve their emotional, spiritual and physical health. Our physical bodies carry us through this life and are intimately connected to our emotional and spiritual health. We cannot heal one without the others. I personally have changed my life for the better by starting and maintaining a regular exercise program. Part of my responsibility as a healer is to inspire my patients to take care of their own bodies after breast cancer treatment.
Carol Michaels's sensitive and personal approach to cancer recovery fitness has helped so many of my patients achieve wholeness and the ability to be optimistic about life again. This is a vital part of the recovery process."
Nancy Elliott, MD, FACS
Director, Montclair Breast Center
176 pages, Paperback
First published November 15, 2013
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November 11, 2019
This book is well written and contains lots of good info. The author attempts to address survivors of all types of cancer, but there is a heavy emphasis on breast cancer and to a lesser degree other gynecologic and prostate cancers. She does have good info for those of us with bone issues as well. My one complaint is that, for all of the overview info and all of the specific exercises, she never really walks the reader through creating a personal exercise plan. I would have appreciated some guidance (e.g., choose 6 stretches, 4 posture exercises, and 2 strength exercises per body part). Certainly I can figure it out, but as someone just coming out of intensive chemotherapy, I would have found a master plan immensely helpful. A worthwhile read nevertheless.
October 20, 2016
Exercises for Cancer Survivors
Exercises for Cancer Survivors is an excellent book for anyone that wants to know what to expect when going through the cancer journey. Carol Michaels discusses the numerous side effects of chemotherapy and how exercise can help prevent the side effects. If you already have lost flexibility in the shoulder or other body part, you will earn how to increase your flexibility by doing the stretches recommended in the book. There are so many problems that can be prevented by exercise.
You will learn that it is good to move even during treatments. It is also important to exercise if lymph nodes are removed. There is much to learn about the importance of exercise!
Exercises for Cancer Survivors is an excellent book for anyone that wants to know what to expect when going through the cancer journey. Carol Michaels discusses the numerous side effects of chemotherapy and how exercise can help prevent the side effects. If you already have lost flexibility in the shoulder or other body part, you will earn how to increase your flexibility by doing the stretches recommended in the book. There are so many problems that can be prevented by exercise.
You will learn that it is good to move even during treatments. It is also important to exercise if lymph nodes are removed. There is much to learn about the importance of exercise!
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