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Fascial Connections Myofascial Release & Wellness Centre

What is a Cancer Coach and how can one Help You?

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I’m a Registered, Holistic Nutrition Health and Cancer Coach specializing in Nutritional Oncology.

What this means is that I work with individuals in all phases of their cancer journey from a new diagnosis, through treatment and finally post treatment.

  • I will help you to manage and reduce the damaging side-effects from treatments such as surgery, chemo and radiation by offering natural remedies.
  • I’ll help you reduce stress associated with this trauma in your life.
  • Help you to improve recovery outcomes after treatment.
  • And critically, I will educate you in natural ways to reduce your chances of recurrence or secondary cancers.

Newly diagnosed people face many difficult challenges.  Nonetheless, surviving cancer can also be a very victorious life experience that has the potential for improving the quality of your life.

Working with a Certified Cancer Coach will help you move past your uncertainty and feelings of fear and devastation. Learn how to regain your self-confidence, strength and a sense of being back in control of your life.

As someone who’s been through the cancer process twice with a close loved one (my husband and son) I understand what you’re going through.  I know the devastation of learning your diagnosis and the stress and anxiety that come after.  The fear and the uncertainty of what’s best for you, how can you prepare and care for yourself during treatments.

What happens once your treatments are over?  For many this phase is just as stressful; always wondering if every little twinge is a new cancer.  Not knowing if or what you could be doing to prevent a recurrence and to help your Optimal Health.  No one should want to go back to where they were before diagnosis because something in that lifestyle caused you to become ill in the first place.

As a cancer coach I am your personal support, advocate, mentor, sounding board, nutritionist, and educator.

“Certainly it is true that not everyone can be saved from the ravages of cancer. However, when using the services of a cancer coach, a patient is empowered with a huge amount of information he or she may not otherwise have received. And, in this cancer coach’s experience, empowered patients live longer and fare much better than those who simply follow their doctor’s orders.” ThetruthaboutCancer.com

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 

Breast Health – Post Mastectomy Myofascial Release

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By Tara Hagan-Fields RMT, Women’s Health Specialist and Expert Myofascial Release Therapist.

breast cancerPain 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.

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Axillary cording is a web of thick, rope-like structures under the skin of your inner arm. These cords usually start near the site of your scarring in the underarm region and extend down the inner arm to the inside of the elbow (sometimes they can continue down to the palm of your hand, or in to the chest wall instead of, or in addition to, the inner arm.

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: breast mfryour 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-FieldsTara 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.