Neither heavy nor light load resistance exercise acutely exacerbates lymphedema in breast cancer survivor

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 423-432

  Cormie, Prue ^a   Galvão, Daniel A ^a   Spry, Nigel ^a,b,c   Newton, Robert U ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

breast cancer; dose response; lymphedema; resistance exercise; weight lifting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BIOIMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER RELATED LYMPHEDEMA; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION GARMENT; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LYMPHEDEMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OBESITY; PAIN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SELF CARE; SPECTROSCOPY; SWELLING; SYMPTOM; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

BREAST CANCER; DOSE RESPONSE; LYMPHEDEMA; RESISTANCE EXERCISE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84883330802     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735413477194     Document Type: Article

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