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So, What Comes After
Cancer Treatment?

Cancer
Rehabilitation

A Unique rehabilitation program helps patients
regain their lives
It's a Tuesday afternoon and the sound of Shania
Twain's "I Feel Like a Woman" is coming from a gym
within the St. Jude Centers for Rehabilitation and
Wellness. Inside, Jason Tse, occupational therapist,
is helping Julia Cook Muneer master a new line dance.
But if you look beyond the music and
laughter, you'll see a highly effective,
evidence-based therapy for improving
balance and stamina as well as memory
and concentration-areas often affected by
chemotherapy and other cancer treatments.
Welcome to one of the nation's most
innovative and successful cancer recovery
programs. At most hospitals care ends
with the last cancer treatment, but at
St. Jude, something very different
happens: a unique rehabilitation program
offers patients the therapeutic and
emotional support they need to recover
their health and vibrancy.
"Some patients are able to simply step
back into life, but others leave cancer
treatment with serious side effects,
wondering where they will find the
energy to step out of bed, much less
back into their lives," explains Jean Dean,
PT, who helps lead the widely-respected
program. Although problems with fatigue,
weakness, pain, insomnia, depression and
incontinence are common among cancer
survivors, programs designed to help are

The comprehensive program features
a multidisciplinary team of oncology
rehabilitation experts who, together,
offer the entire range of therapeutic
interventions, from pelvic floor
rehabilitation and stress management,
to vocational rehabilitation and
neurocognitive recovery.
Julia's treatment for non-Hodgkin
lymphoma left behind issues with
fatigue, balance, and concentration-all
of which have vastly improved through
weekly therapy. "It's made a tremendous
difference," says the 61-year-old buyer
for a local school district. "The therapy
focuses on my priorities, which on one day
might mean improving my ability to focus
at work, while on another, learning how to
reduce stress and anxiety."

still rare-and outcomes like those being
created at St. Jude are rarer still.
"We see significant improvements in
physical and emotional well-being, as we
address each side effect or symptom-
whether it's a swallowing issue, loss of
balance, pain, or anxiety," explains Jason,
who says the one-on-one therapies are
customized to fit a patient's specific needs
and can benefit those still in treatment as
well as those who celebrated the end of
treatment years ago.

According to Sue Potts, PT, Outpatient
Therapy Manager, creating a nationallyrecognized rehabilitation program is
familiar territory for St. Jude physicians
and staff. "In areas from stroke recovery
to sports injuries, we exceed national
benchmarks and create higher standards
of care," Sue says. "It's exciting to bring
that same expertise to cancer recovery."
To learn more about the
St. Jude Cancer Rehabilitation and
Wellness Program, please visit
stjudemedicalcenter.org/cancerrehab.

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