Your cancer rehabilitation resource:
for on-site & virtual learning.
Pulling the worlds of oncology and rehabilitation together… improves cancer outcomes.
To maximize the health and strength of your cancer program, the WCRA offers:
World-class cancer rehabilitation medical education for PT, OT, MD, RN, APPs
Vibrant and sustainable program development consultancy
Patient education seminars
Ways to Work Together!
We’ll come to you with a course to empower therapists through discussion, case studies, hands-on labs, & evidence-based practice. You’ll learn the clinical skills to assess, treat, and support patients across the entire cancer care continuum!
On-Site Courses
Live virtual lectures are perfect to teach rehab therapists, oncology clinicians and leaders about the role and benefits of cancer rehab or go in depth on a specific treatment topic. See our catalog for topics or let’s build a webinar just for you!
Virtual Seminars & Lectures
Making complex cancer topics easier to digest and understand for patients, is our specialty! Better understanding leads to better decisions and better decisions lead to better health. We’ll assist you in empowering patients with accurate, easy to understand and enjoyable presentations!
Seminars for Cancer Survivors
Here is your Explainer Video!
Introducing the Cancer Rehab Revolution…
In the US and across the globe, the number of cancer patients and survivors is growing at an astonishing pace. This has highlighted the ever present Cancer Rehabilitation Gap - cancer doctors and nurses don’t know enough about rehabilitation, and rehabilitation therapists don’t know enough about cancer.
The result? The very patients that come to us for help bear the brunt of our unawareness. They suffer more pain, more fatigue, more weakness, and more preventable loss than necessary. With the intent of pushing the quiet cancer rehabilitation evolution into a not so quiet revolution, the Waltke Cancer Rehabilitation Academy was founded to help programs just like yours.
“Rehabilitation and fitness throughout cancer treatment interventions improve morbidity and mortality outcomes for cancer patients.”
Cancer Rehabilitation Free Resources
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An Overview of Cancer Rehabilitation and Exercise in the Literature: Promoting Increased Referrals to Improve Oncology Outcomes, by Dr. Leslie Waltke. This peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews describes research supporting the integration of rehabilitation and exercise in cancer care. It highlights evidence-based benefits for cancer patients, emphasizing the importance of early rehabilitation referrals for optimal oncology outcomes. Article of the Year Award. More than 11,000 downloads, within 345 institutions, in 98 countries.
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Physical Therapy for Patients with Breast Cancer, by Dr. Leslie Waltke, is the 11th chapter in the textbook Breast Cancer: Multidisciplinary Pathways for Cancer Care in the Community by James L. Weese. This chapter describes the in-depth evidence and guidelines of the full longitudinal physical therapy treatments for patients during and after surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, anti-hormonal treatments and survivorship. Though this chapter focuses solely on breast cancer, the cancer rehab treatments describe are applicable to all cancer types.
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Lymphedema Risk Reduction: separating the myths from the facts is a patient centered talk that busts lymphedema myths and describes in easy to understand ways the causes of lymphedema, what puts you at risk, how to minimize your risk, get exercising safely and push, pull, lift and carry your way to a happy and healthy future!
You Can Help Close The Gap.
People affected by cancer deserve the finest evidence based treatment available. By pulling the worlds of rehabilitation and oncology together to close the Cancer Rehabilitation Gap, we have the power to provide it to them!
“Dr. Waltke taught me how to manage, and better live my new normal after brutal treatment and complications. She showed me that no matter what was to come, I could help my body be ok. She gave me answers to difficult questions, never sugar coating anything - which I appreciate more than anyone will know. She gave me an invaluable gift; she made me laugh again.”
- Tracy Lisiecki Long time melanoma survivor