Pilates Therapy for Cancer
By: Alin ThomsTotal Views: 195, Word Count: 515,
Pilates therapy for breast cancer is based on accuracy that helps to manage the pain and stress of the patient. It proves effective as the therapy and its operative procedures help the patient to reinstate the lost strength. Other benefits of pilates therapy for breast cancer are that it helps to restore joint mobility and tissue integrity.
What is Breast Cancer?
Breast cancer is a deadly disease that develops in the breast cells of both men and women. Many times, genetic mutation is the cause behind breast cancer that affects people across the world. Though women have more chances of breast cancer as compared to men, the survival rate is similar in both the genders.
What are the Causes of Breast Cancer?
Breast cancer usually occurs either due to hereditary or environmental factors. Due to exposure to estrogen hormone, mutation occurs and leads to breast cancer. Majority of the times, people develop breast cancer due to the mutation in two types of genes. These are: BRCA, also known as ‘breast cancer 1’, and BRCA2, that is ‘breast cancer 2’.
Usually, a person develops breast cancer, wherein the mutative genes may get inherited from both maternal and paternal relatives. Moreover, factors like age of the person, gender, mutative hormones, child-bearing, excess alcohol consumption, high-calorie diet, obesity, work life and contact with radiation also cause breast cancer.
What is Pilates Therapy for Breast Cancer?
Many times, people do not have sufficient information about the pilates therapy. In the past few years, this therapy has gained importance as one of the best treatments for breast cancer patients. You can conduct a good online research to understand the benefits of pilates therapy for breast cancer. Various websites and lots of health care magazines give useful and handy information on the effective operative procedures of pilates therapy.
Pilates is one of the exercises that can be practiced in a gentle manner. It is recuperative in nature that suits women and helps them to recover and rebuild their bodies. It proves helpful to men as well who possess the minor chances of the deadly disease.
‘Pilates therapy for breast cancer’ is based on the principles of flow of movement, centering, firmness, and control of breathing. Apart from this, pilates therapy helps the breast cancer patients to reinstate the body, gain a healthy posture, relieve the overworked muscles, and to achieve spinal mobility.
How Breast Cancer Patients Benefit from Pilates Therapy?
Pilates helps breast cancer patients to perform the workouts and gain strength.
Many times, breast cancer patient suffers from physical inability to perform the general tasks like lifting arms. They suffer from pain, swelling and decreased range of motion that deprives them to perform such basic tasks. In such cases, the breast cancer patients can perform pilates workouts with the guidance of the instructors to increase their muscle strength and stamina for pelvic bone, buttocks, back, and abdomen.
In general, pilates therapy for breast cancer helps to transform your looks and feeling. If combined with physical therapy, pilates helps to improve a woman’s health if practiced for a consistent period.
About the Author
Dr.Alin Thoms is a well known cancer specialist ( oncologist) and has been in this field since from 1995. He uses radiotherapy or drugs to treat cancer. He has done B.A and B.M.B.ch from Oxford University. His special interests lies in - leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and chemotherapy and transplantation for these disorders. He is currently director of the North London Cancer Network.
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