The purpose of Core Life Cancer Wellness is to use specific individualized exercises to increase strength, decrease pain, help your body get and stay in balance, prevent fatigue/injury, and restore overall well-being after a cancer diagnosis. The programs are 8-week intervals that combine PT, wellness coaching and therapeutic massage for a total-body approach to healing. After the initial 8-week session, if appropriate, there are 4-week follow-up sessions to continue working on goals.
What services are offered?
Initial Assessment:
- First visit: One hour physical and wellness assessment
- Determine baseline status
- Design interventions that improve functional limitations before treatment for cancer begins.
- Assess need for ongoing services
Healing Program:
The design of the program will be based on individual needs.
- An 8-week customized wellness program that includes
- Twice weekly individualized PT sessions,
- Wellness coaching
- Therapeutic massage
What are the benefits?
- Maximize independence
- Increase Energy level
- Support Immune system
- Improve Lung capacity
- Increase Mobility
- Build Muscle Strength
- Promote healing
- Reduce symptom burden
- Improve mind-set
What is the Core Life Cancer Wellness Program?
Core Life Cancer Wellness lets you take an active role in managing your health before, during and after cancer treatment. The program addresses and treats the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary and functional mobility impairments expected with cancer treatment, survivorship or advanced disease. We will provide an integrated approach by our collaborative team.
Pre-cancer treatment services
Occurs between the time of cancer diagnosis and the beginning of acute treatment. During pre-treatment services, a physical therapy evaluation is performed to determine baseline functional levels, identify issues and provide targeted interventions that improve a client’s health prior to your cancer treatment.
During or after treatment services
Functional training: Improve gait/balance, range of motion, strength and endurance. Kinesio taping
Relaxation techniques: May include soft tissue mobilization, joint mobilization, deep pressure, manual therapy and breathing techniques
Develop Individualized exercise plan: Each person will have an exercise plan geared towards sustaining and increasing their strength, balance and functional level while being treated for cancer.
Cording treatment: (after breast cancer surgery) Soft tissue mobility to improve range of motion, function and decrease issues related cording.
Lymphedema treatment: decrease swelling, improve ROM, decrease pain and increase function
Wellness Services
Core Life Wellness will collaborate with you on determining what goals are a priority for you to address and offer support to achieve those goals. While people who have been diagnosed with cancer may have similar challenges and triumphs, everyone is unique. That’s why our services are individualized.
Some topics that we may cover are stress, nourishing your body, sleep, exercise and relationships and how to address these topics to lead to a more fulfilling or happier life. Core Life wellness will help you close the gap from the medical world to the everyday world.
- Tailored approach
- Bridging the gap
- One on one
- Improve health through care given to body and mind
- Help you reach your personal goals
- Empower
- Self-esteem
- Sense of accomplishment
- Restorative breathing techniques
- Innovative approach to healing
- Nutrition support
Comprehensive range of services, including:
- Pain management
- Rehabilitation services
- Expert guidance on your condition
- Tailored exercises to enhance your range of motion, balance, flexibility, and muscle strength.