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Breast Health – Post Mastectomy Myofascial Release
By Tara Hagan-Fields RMT, Women’s Health Specialist and Expert Myofascial Release Therapist.
Pain and tightness suffered post mastectomy/lumpectomy can limit one’s life drastically. Myofascial Release can help create vast changes by softening dense scars and fibrosed fascia that are unchanged with traditional therapy and stretching.
Traumatized tissue can have a cascading effect on the body. Locally, tightened and fibrous fascia can restrict blood flow and lymphatic flow, this can result in lymphedema. Auxiliary cording can occur, causing a significant loss of range of motion in the shoulder, resulting in a loss of function. Pain and weakness can occur in the shoulder, arm and chest wall. Burning, pins and needles, numbness or spasms can also occur in these areas.
Tightness, with time, can start to effect areas not associated with the scar. Areas far removed from the local site may be impacted. Symptoms not “normal” to mastectomy, lumpectomy, reconstruction or augmentation can start to occur. Headaches, jaw pain, low back pain, pelvic pain, digestive issues, postural changes, hormonal imbalances, etc., may become a “common” occurrence for you.
The inability to move, or the pain suffered with common range of motion and activity can become debilitating. This might happen immediately, or it might occur 6 years down the road. In real life it might look like, the inability to wash your hair in the shower, get dressed in the morning, pick your child up out of the crib, hug a loved one, carry your groceries, drive your car, work at your computer, reach up and grab the sugar out of the cupboard. No matter the role you have as a woman: mom, worker, grandma: your life is impacted.
Pain management and rehabilitation using Myofascial Release can help. Gentle and slow work done at the fascial barrier (on the scar and surrounding areas) can assist in restoring functional patterns by decreasing the restrictions.
Whether you had surgery, chemo or radiation last month, or 10 years ago, Myofascial Release should be added to your recovery process.
Tara Hagan-Fields is an RMT with Fascial Connections Myofascial Release & Wellness Centre. Tara is a Women’s Health Specialist and Expert Myofascial Release Therapist. She focuses on the body as a whole and teaches you to do the same. More about Tara here.
What’s Nu?
By Michelle Thibodeau, Natural Nutritional Practitioner & Certified Professional Cancer Coach.
Higher vitamin D levels linked with improved prostate cancer survival
On January 25, 2016 an article published online in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, researchers at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland documented an association between higher serum vitamin D levels and an increased chance of surviving prostate cancer. The study included 1000 participants from the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study who were diagnosed with prostate cancer following enrollment. Of this thousand participants 363 died of their disease over a 23 year follow-up from time of diagnosis. All participants completed questionnaires concerning diet and medical history and Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and other factors were measured upon enrollment.
Between men whose vitamin D levels were among the top 20% of subjects, there was a 28% lower average adjusted risk of dying from prostate cancer compared to those whose levels were in the lowest 20%. The effect was stronger for those who survived more than 3.3 years.
If you decide to supplement with vitamin D choose a good quality liquid/drop formula for best absorption and make sure you buy from a reputable health food store. Most people should supplement with at least 6000 IU daily. Be sure to have your levels tested from time to time; ask your doctor. In some areas you have to pay for this yourself at the lab (usually about $35) or you can order a home kit from the D Action Project.
Michelle Thibodeau Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Health & Cancer Coach at Fascial Connections Myofascial Release and Wellness Centre. Learn more about Michelle. Call to book an appointment or go online to www.fascialconncections.ca
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