Moving Through Illness to Wellness
As a multi-disciplinary therapy center we offer specialist women’s oncology Occupational Therapy services. Our aim is to walk alongside you in your cancer journey, to shift the focus from illness to wellness and optimise physical, cognitive, emotional, and functional recovery through the cancer journey.
POST-OPERATIVE PHASE
- Range of movement and mobility in your chest, neck, or arm Your posture and core stability after surgery
- Scarring or Axillary Web Syndrome
- Sensation changes in your arm or chest
- Identifying the signs of lymphoedema
- Difficulties doing everyday activities and tasks at home or work Pain
Coping with the changes
TREATMENT PHASE
- Fatigue
- Chemo-fog or chemo-induced cognitive impairment
- Coping with treatment-related side-effects
- Range of movement and mobility
- Your posture and core stability after surgery
- Difficulties doing everyday activities and tasks at home or work
RECOVERY & SURVIVORSHIP PHASE
- Re-conditioning your body and building up endurance Overall functioning and maintaining your independence Managing anxiety or fear around recurrence and stress Reclaiming your body confidence and self-esteem Regaining your quality of life
- Implications arising later from your treatment
Contact Lyndal Alexander, lyndal@chatterboxcayman.com. Our Women’s Cancer Specialist, for more info.