Yoga management of breast cancer-related lymphoedema: A randomised controlled pilot-trial

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Loudon, Annette ^a   Barnett, Tony ^a   Piller, Neil ^b   Immink, Maarten A ^c   Williams, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer related lymphoedema; Quality of life; Randomised controlled trial; Symptoms; Yoga

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; TONOMETRY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; YOGA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CARE; YOGA;

EID: 84903890889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-14-214     Document Type: Article

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