Cancer is a disease that we all fear. Treatments can leave you exhausted, in pain, feeling sick and weak. One to One Wellness has developed this program to empower you throughout this journey. Education, exercise, and mobility training are proven tools to enable you to regain control over your health. This safe method not only helps you combat this disease and itโs treatment side effects, but it gives you more empowerment over your life from diagnosis right through to post-treatment.
After cancer diagnosis, there are many aspects to health that come into consideration as treatments take a toll on our physical, psychological and social well-being. This program is designed to provide you with a safe method of maintaining or regaining your strength and mobility to help maintain your quality of life throughout this entire journey.
After cancer treatment, continuing to work on your mobility and strength is very important. The long term and late effects of cancer treatments can be minimized and potentially prevented through a regular exercise that includes two bone and muscle strength training sessions per week and at least 22 minutes of moderate intensity exercise per day.
Pain is one of the main barriers to people participating in an exercise program. Our therapists have helped thousands of Nova Scotians better understand their pain through Pain Neuroscience Education and can help you better understand the following:
Part of the treatment plan will be to set individualized goals using the SMART principle: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time Frame. This helps empower and motivate you in managing your health.
Your physiotherapist may ask you to do some exercises at home, in addition to exercises performed in our office, to maintain or continue to improve your mobility throughout the program. These at home and in offce exercises may include:
After your initial assessment, your physiotherapist will slowly introduce you to our semi-private training room. We use a slow-motion strength training protocol that allows you to strengthen within and move beyond your current limits. This helps reduce the amount of force on your joints and makes our workouts very efficient. Our equipment is designed to be adjusted for every personโs size and available range of motion.