CANCER RELATED FATIGUE

What is Cancer Related Fatigue?

Cancer Related Fatigue (CRF) is a side effect from cancer therapies, like chemotherapy and radiation therapy. They leave patients with a feeling of whole-body tiredness that is not relieved by rest or sleep. Fatigue can prevent a person from functioning normally and impacts a person’s quality of life. Cancer Related Fatigue, one of the least treated symptoms, is reported to have a prevalence of 58-100%, but it is treated less than 5% of the time.

How can Physical Therapy help?

Physical Therapy is a field devoted to the study of exercise and rehabilitation. There are many positive benefits of exercise, and physical therapists are skilled with the knowledge to create appropriate and safe exercises for your special needs.

Regular and moderate exercise can:

~ Increase your energy                     

~ Decrease anxiety          

~ Decrease weakness            

~ Decrease depression

~ Decrease fatigue                

~ Decrease nausea