Getting the right care is important to help you recover and feel more like yourself again. When you choose cancer rehabilitation services at Ascension St. Vincent’s in Jacksonville, Florida, you get an experienced team of physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech therapists. Every appointment with your care team starts with a compassionate conversation. We answer your questions and get to know you. So, you get a personalized cancer rehabilitation care plan. And with a plan, comes hope.
Personalized assessment and cancer rehabilitation
Cancer rehabilitation can begin at any stage of your cancer treatment. At Ascension St. Vincent’s, our goal is to help you get back to home, family, life and self sooner. Physical and occupational therapists certified in lymphedema therapy provide assessments and create personalized care plans that are right for you. Your rehabilitation care team may help you:
- Build strength and endurance
- Improve physical and emotional well-being
- Increase shoulder range of motion and strength
- Manage swelling
- Reduce arm and chest pain
- Regain functional independence
Rehabilitation specialists certified in lymphedema therapy
Physical therapy and lymphedema care specialists at Ascension St. Vincent’s deliver specialized therapies to help manage fluid buildup and swelling that can limit body movement. Using combined decongestive therapy (CDT), also called lymphedema therapy, your physical therapist helps relieve discomfort with gentle exercises, lymphatic massage and medical compression bandages. Your therapist can also teach you these exercises and techniques so you can continue to do them at home.
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