Breast Cancer Fitness

Trish Muse, MPT, CSCS
Naomi Aaronson, MA OTR/L CHT
Cost: $495.00

Do you have breast cancer survivors as patients that you want to help beyond discharge from therapy? Would you like to develop individualized fi tness programs targeted specifi cally to their needs and goals? Learn how to provide a community based wellness program created for women who are living beyond breast cancer. Breast Cancer Fitness will teach you the pathology, staging, treatment and related effects of breast cancer. The benefi ts of exercise for this population will be presented along with appropriate Pilates exercises. You will learn how to fully assess survivors for participation in an exercise program. Often times the toughest task is developing goals and the corresponding exercises that will lead to goal achievement in higher functioning patients. Let this course be your motivation and challenge to learn how to work with a population that strives to return to activity safely. Learn how to apply precautions and modifi cations for safe, effective and evidence based program design. You will learn what Pilates based exercise is, what the benefits are for survivors and which exercises address their recovery needs. What you gain from this course will help you develop individualized exercise programs that can establish the platform for a niche practice. Evidence based research will guide exercise selection in rehabilitation and post-rehabilitation. By attending this course you will learn how to identify qualifi ed fi tness professionals, medical professionals and other ancillary professionals to assist you in your patients’ recovery and post-recovery phase.

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