Breakthrough in Cancer Care
The recently published ‘Duke Energizing Exercise Program’ (DEEP) is a breakthrough helping fatigued cancer sufferers to find their ‘get up and go’ when it has ‘got up and gone’. Fatigue has been identified consistently among the top 10 of the most disturbing and clinically important symptoms in all adult cancers, but is the least researched and most overlooked cancer symptom. DEEP combats the ‘rest and medicate until you die’ mentality in global healthcare and motivates/coaches patients to feel and function better with a video home-based program. Successfully researched in Australia University.
Austraila (PRWEB) February 1, 2005 -- The recently published ‘Duke Energizing
Exercise Program’ (DEEP) is a breakthrough helping fatigued cancer sufferers to
find their ‘get up and go’ when it has ‘got up and gone’.
Trish Duke,
English-trained Physical Therapist who wrote the DEEP program for Cancer Fatigue
research for Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia says, “the problem is
often with well meaning health professionals or family that think they are
caring by keeping the patient rested and medicated. Any healthy person who
stayed relatively stationary on a chair or bed for several days or weeks on end
would end up feeling very unwell from the lack of mobility. Imagine how you
would feel if you did several round-the-world flights non-stop? That is how we
typically ‘care’ for most of our cancer patients. ”
Fatigue has been
identified consistently among the top 10 of the most disturbing and clinically
important symptoms in all adult cancers. Patients commonly report battling with
chronic fatigue which adversely affects their ability to tolerate treatments,
work, cope with relationships as well as maintaining their independence and
motivation to live.
However, fatigue is the least researched and most
overlooked cancer symptom. Patients often develop ‘rest-resistant fatigue’ and
then steadily go downhill. This deterioration is frequently blamed completely on
the cancer, when a major contributing factor can actually be wrongly advised
inactivity.
Ms Duke is spearheading an international campaign to change
this ‘rest and medicate until you die’ mentality in global cancer
healthcare.
The DEEP program, which is the first ever home-based Oncology
exercise program to be published, benefits adult cancer sufferers from diagnosis
right through to palliative care.
Further info and a free excerpt can be
obtained at www.successfulcancersolutions.com
Alf, an 86-year-old
cancer victim, was told he would never be able to drive again, so he gave his
car away. He claimed “ I went from what looked like a gloomy end to within a few
weeks on the DEEP program to walking well enough to buy a new car and start
driving again.”
Other participants of the DEEP program report increased
energy, physical and emotional strength, less discomfort, easier breathing,
increased independence, improved appetite and sleeping patterns, motivation to
‘do things’ again as well as the desire and ability to enjoy social functions
such as weddings, parties, visits to the beach and art galleries.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/2/prweb202741.htm