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Smart Woman: Healing The Scars of Breast Cancer

By: Maxine Ridling
Updated: October 11, 2012
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Impairments that are common after treatment for breast cancer include: pain, restricted range of motion, lymphedema and weakness.
Many women seek out rehabilitation right after their first surgery.
Rehab has been shown in clinical studies to be effecting in treating many of those side effects of treatment. We can really bring a woman's range of motion back.
The goal for patients? Return to the lifestyle they had before cancer.
Doctors say with early intervention, a woman go back to her normal quality of life -- with excellent range of motion, minimal swelling of her arm, and any other effects that surgery or radiation might cause.

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