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9-minute read 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 418 institutions, in 102 countries.
60-minute read 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.
Podcast Media
The Recovery Room Podcast discusses all things cancer recovery. We bring you the accuracy, experts, understanding and next steps you need to be healthier, more confident, make better decisions and live your best life after cancer!
Youtube & Facebook Channel
The Recovery Room is for cancer survivors and is a library of educational videos to help live your best and strongest life after cancer! Our videos are short, positive, easy to understand and most importantly, medically accurate!
38-minute watch/listen 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!
46-minute watch/listen Tune into this Advocate Aurora Health nursing grand rounds lecture titled Improving Patient Outcomes: The game-changing benefits of physical therapy in cancer care. The talk by Dr. Waltke covers the roles and benefits of physical therapy treatments related to cancer surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, survivorship and end of life. It covers the outcome improvements expected for both cancer patients and cancer programs.
World Health Organization’s Package of Interventions for Cancer Rehabilitation Interventions to be used in rehabilitation for children and adults with malignant neoplasms. Dr. Waltke sat on the Peer Review Group for this paper.
3-minute read Cancer Treatment's Crucial Component: Cancer Wellness Magazine. Through physical therapy treatments and educational videos, cancer rehabilitation specialist Dr. Leslie Waltke, PT, DPT helps individuals at all phases of recovery.
15-minute read The Economic Value of Physical Therapy in the United States. An American Physical Therapy Association report analyzes the net benefit of choosing physical therapy for 8 conditions to show how cost-effective it is.