Domiciliary Physiotherapy During Breast Cancer Radiation

University of Sao Paulo

Status

Completed

Conditions

Shoulder Pain

Treatments

Other: Domiciliary exercises for the upper limbs

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02198118

NCT01940107

USP-HCarrara (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women. Its treatment, including radiotherapy (RT), can cause potential complications to be treated by the physiotherapy. Objective: To evaluate the effect of domiciliary physiotherapy on the upper limb applied during the period of radiotherapy in women submitted to surgical and radiotherapy for breast cancer. Study design: This is a prospective randomized controlled clinical trial. Methods: Thirty six volunteers were recruited from November 2009 to March 2012 and they were appraised at three different times: pre-RT, post-RT and 2 months after the end of RT. The parameters evaluated were: shoulder range of movement (ROM) and arm circumference. They were divided into two groups: CG) control group, submitted only to the assessments and SG) study group, submitted to domiciliary physiotherapy.

Enrollment

36 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

30 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Having been diagnosed with unilateral breast cancer and having been submitted to surgical and radiation treatment as part of the treatment for breast cancer, according to the therapeutic protocol of the unit

Exclusion criteria

Patients with neurological or orthopedic diseases that could impair the movements of the upper limbs, bilateral breast cancer, previous thoracic radiotherapy, and the presence of distant metastasis.