Guide to Post Breast Cancer Exercise
Breast cancer surgery can cause a certain degree of physical damage to the patient, but reasonable post-operative exercise is essential for recovery.
In the early post-operative period, during bed rest, the patient can start with a simple hand movement. It seems normal to hold a fist and let go, but it promotes blood circulation in the hand. Keep your fists held for 3-5 seconds each time, and then let go, repeat 10-15 times in a group, with 3-4 groups per day. The rotational movement of the wrist cannot be ignored, with a slow clockwise and counterclockwise turn to the wrist and feel the activities of the wrist joint, which rotates around 10 laps a day and multiple times a day, helping to prevent the wrists from hardening.
When the body gradually recovers, the patient can try to sit up and exercise. Extending the upper limbs is a crucial step, stretching the upper limbs straight up, slowly lifting them up, raising them as high as possible, feeling the stretching of the shoulder and upper limb muscles, keeping them down in between three and five seconds and repeating them around 10 times. This action avoids a contraction of shoulder muscles and increases the mobility of upper limbs. At the same time, it is also necessary to have a shoulder around the shoulder, which is centred on the shoulder, so that the arm can do a small-scale round exercise, with a clockwise and a counterclockwise, with 5-8 laps in each direction, with three groups per day, which enhances the flexibility of the shoulder joint.
As recovery improves further, patients can add some more challenging exercise. For example, in the case of climbing a wall, patients stand up against the wall, with their feet wide with their shoulders, with their hands on the wall, with their fingers on their hands, slowly climb up along the wall, until they stop when they feel stretching or a slight pain, remain in position for one or two minutes and then slowly drop down. This campaign can effectively improve upper limb lift. There is also a hair combing exercise, a simulation of a normal hair combing exercise, which can further improve the range of shoulder and upper limb activities by crossing the head with the wrong hand and touching the ear on the opposite side with the wrong hand.
In the exercise, several points require special attention. First, the exercise must be gradual and must not be carried out in such a way as to prevent excessive force from causing the wound to crack or other damage. Second, if there is a manifest pain or discomfort during the exercise, it should be stopped immediately and a doctor consulted. In addition, exercise requires a long-term commitment, with no three days of fishing and two days of sunning, and only sustained exercise will improve the restoration of upper limbs, improve the quality of life, help patients to return to normal life as soon as possible after the breast cancer and reduce the negative effects of the surgery on the body. To make exercise a strong assistant on the path to rehabilitation and to assist in the health and vitality of patients.
