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there is more to life than just surviving a diagnosis
At Leading Edge Physiotherapy, we know that there is more to life than just surviving. It isn’t enough to just be happy to be alive. With the many effects that a cancer diagnosis can have on an individual such as the effects of treatment and medication, we seek to provide today’s leading edge technology and techniques to give you the outcomes you are looking for.
Leading Edge Physiotherapy is proud to offer Cancer rehabilitation at our specially staffed and designed facility in central Edmonton. This facility is designed to help people with cancer maintain and restore physical and emotional well-being. Leading Edge Cancer rehabilitation is available before, during and after cancer treatment.
Cancer rehabilitation professionals at our Leading Edge Cancer Care Clinic offer the help and expertise that you need to:
- Improve your endurance, strength and mobility
- Build your confidence and self-esteem
- Provide tools and strategies to make daily living activities easier
- Help you cope with anxiety, distress or other emotional issues
- Reduce fatigue, pain and other lingering side effects
- Return to work
- Return to sport
- Ensure that there is quality of life after cancer
Our services can benefit all people with cancer who experience a change in quality of life after diagnosis, including all types and stages of cancer.
Cancer Specific Services
- Lymphedema Management
- Fatigue Management
- Deconditioning
- Cording / Frozen Shoulder
- Post Operative Management
- Neuropathy
- Balance Dysfunction
- Pain Management
- Joint Mobilization
All of our assessments and treatments are under the care and supervision of a physiotherapist with post graduate training in the management of patients with cancer related disorders. We would be proud to be a part of your cancer care in Edmonton.
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Contact us today to learn more about our facility, services or to make an appointment today.
Patients who are diagnosed with cancer have a higher risk of injury and infection. As a result, the facility where treatment takes place must be designed to mitigate risk.
- The use of high level infection control measures is essential. Our equipment and surfaces are non porous to ensure proper application of sterilization techniques.
- Presence of blood pressure, blood saturation and temperature equipment to monitor physiologic response to exercise.
- Multiple body site isokinetic exercise equipment to engage resistance exercises in a safe environment.
- Balance equipment with grab bars for safe performance of proprioception exercises.
- Defined spaces to ensure equipment and boundary walls are available to hold on to in order to limit the risk of falling.
- Alter-G Zero Gravity Treadmill
- PhysioStep LXT bike designed for upper and/or lower extremity resistance training in an adaptable safe environment.
- A full suite of vestibular rehabilitation equipment.
- Med4Elite to assist with lymphedema and swelling.
- Normatec pneumatic recovery system for swelling management.
- Well lit, bright and inviting space – because where you are cared for and how you feel about it matters.
Experts trained in the specific area of oncological rehabilitation, lymphedema management and exercise prescription.
Following a well-designed exercise plan during and after treatment may be able to:
- Lower the chance of having physical side effects, such as fatigue, neuropathy, lymphedema, osteoporosis, and nausea
- Reduce the risk of depression and anxiety
- Keep you as mobile and independent as possible
- Improve your balance to reduce fall injuries
- Prevent muscle loss and build strength
- Prevent weight gain and obesity, which are linked to increased cancer risk
- Improve sleep
- Decrease the amount of time you need to stay in the hospital
- Make your treatment more effective at destroying tumor cells
- Improve survival rates for certain cancers, such as breast cancer and colorectal cancer
- Reduce the risk of other cancers
- Prevent other chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes
- Improve quality of life
Christy has been practicing in various locations in Alberta and the UK since 1999. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy in 1999 and hasn’t looked back since. She has studied under Dr. Aung completing her Certificate in Medical Acupuncture from the U of A and is Gunn IMS certified. She studied Graston Technique and has gone on to specialize in Oncology Rehabilitation; becoming certified in lymphatic therapy, and earning her specialization in Oncology Rehab from the Physiological Oncology Rehabilitation Institute in Denver, CO. Through her physical therapy journey she has learned that the journey never ends but is a series of beginnings that lead you to places you never thought you would go, and she brings this edge to all of her patient interactions.
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