Cancer Rehab Services
What Is Cancer Rehab?
Cancer rehabilitation helps people keep or regain their physical and emotional well-being. It focuses on treating problems caused by cancer or its treatment and often includes a team approach.
Our Cancer Rehab Team
Physiatrists
Also called physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors, physiatrists help people improve their quality of life and functioning with physical therapy, exercise, medicine, education and other treatments.
Physical Therapists
Physical therapists focus on movement, gait, spine and leg mobility, plus lymphedema treatment.
Occupational Therapists
Occupational therapists focus on activities of daily living, such as dressing and feeding, upper arm and hand movement, plus lymphedema treatment.
Speech Therapists
Speech therapists focus on speech, swallowing, and thinking and memory problems from cancer or cancer treatments.
Services
How Cancer Rehabilitation Can Help
Cancer rehab doctors use tools, exercise and medicine to help improve your physical mobility, strength and quality of life during and after cancer treatment. They create a personal care plan to help you meet your goals. Care often includes referrals for therapy, medical equipment and/or pain management without opioids.
Common conditions we treat include:
- Weakness and fatigue.
- Problems with concentration or thinking.
- Worsening spine, joint or nerve pain due to cancer treatment.
- Loss of mobility due to back, neck, knee or shoulder or joint pain.
- Nerve changes (called neuropathy) in your hands or feet that may be painful or cause balance problems or falls.
- Lymphedema (swelling) after surgery in the arms, legs, chest, face and/or neck.
- Problems with swallowing or speech.
- Bowel or bladder changes after pelvic surgery.
- Weakness in arms or legs from cancer treatment or brain or spinal cord tumors.
How to Schedule a Visit With Our Cancer Rehab Specialist
Dr. Yevgeniya Dvorkin Wininger can do an in-depth consultation before, during or after starting cancer treatment.
Initial visits are in person and follow-up visits may be in person or by video.
Locations
- UH Seidman Cancer Center at UH Geauga Medical Center
- Breast Center at UH Ahuja Medical Center
- UH Connor Whole Health, Beachwood
To schedule or learn more, please call 216-285-4390.
Other Services
- Lymphedema clinics
- H.O.P.E. Wellness Program for Patients with Cancer at the Fitness Center at UH Avon Health Center
- REVIVE: Oncology Exercise and Wellness program in Mentor
Other Resources
- Exercise During and After Cancer Treatment
- Sit Less. Move More: a tip sheet.
- Moving Through Cancer: A guide to getting and staying active during cancer treatment.
- LIVESTRONG at the YMCA: a 12-week program designed to help survivors improve strength and quality of life, offered at little or no cost at YMCAs throughout Ohio. To learn more, call 1-855-220-7777, visit livestrong.org or call your local YMCA.
- The Gathering Place in Beachwood and Westlake. To learn more, visit https://touchedbycancer.org/ or call 216-595-9546.
- Stewart’s Caring Place in Akron. To learn more, visit stewartscaringplace.org or call 330-836-1772.
- Silver Sneakers: a free wellness program offered to people with certain Medicare plans. To learn more, call 1-866-584-7389 or visit silversneakers.com.
- Survivorship Care for Healthy Living (National Comprehensive Cancer Network). For a printable copy, visit nccn.org/patientguidelines.
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