Lymphedema Does Not Appear Because Of The Strength Exercises After The Removal Of Breast Cancer

Lymphedema Does Not Appear Because Of The Strength Exercises After The Removal Of Breast Cancer.
Contrary to common wisdom, lifting weights doesn't cause bust cancer survivors to bare the painful, arm-swelling condition known as lymphedema, green research suggests. There's a hint that weight-lifting might even help prevent lymphedema, but more on is needed to say that for sure, the researchers said. Breast cancer-related lymphedema is caused by an increase of lymph fluid after surgical removal of the lymph nodes and/or radiation. It is a dour condition that may cause arm swelling, awkwardness and discomfort.

And "Lymphedema is something women at the end of the day fear after breast cancer, and the guidance has been not to lift anything heavier even than a purse," said Kathryn H Schmitz, steer author of the study to be presented Wednesday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. "But to effect women to not use that affected arm without giving them a prescription for a personal valet is an absurdist principle," she added.

A former study done by the same team of researchers found that exercise actually stabilized symptoms to each women who already had lymphedema. "We really wanted to put the last stamp on this to say, 'Hey, it is not only proper but may actually be good for their arms," said Schmitz, who is an associate professor of forebears medicine and community health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a member of the Abramson Cancer Center in Philadelphia.

And "It's almost similarly to a paradigm shift," said Lee Jones, meticulous director of the Duke Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Survivorship in Durham, NC "Low-volume rebelliousness training does not exacerbate lymphedema". To see if a slowly progressive rehabilitation program using weights would aid the arm, 134 breast cancer survivors with at least two lymph nodes removed but no cartouche of lymphedema who had been diagnosed one to five years before entry in the study were randomly selected to participate in one of two groups.