Kinesitherapy alleviates fatigue in terminal hospice cancer patients - An experimental, controlled study

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 743-749

  Buss, Tomasz ^a   De Walden Gałuszko, Krystyna ^a   Modlińska, Aleksandra ^a   Osowicka, Magdalena ^a   Lichodziejewska Niemierko, Monika ^a   Janiszewska, Justyna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Kinesitherapy; Quality of life; Terminal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PATIENT; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOSPICE PATIENT; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; FATIGUE; HOSPICE CARE; NEOPLASM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EXERCISE THERAPY; FATIGUE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953612323     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-009-0709-0     Document Type: Article

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