Healing power of working out
According to Melina Irwin, an expert on cancer and exercise at Yale University School of Medicine, exercise may soon joining the current weapons of fighting cancer: surgery, chemo and radiation. Research is showing that regular workouts help reduce recurrences of cancer as well as slow advances in patient.
Exercise fights the fatigue, calms anxiety and makes people feel better about themselves.
Some sort of personal trainer & supervision is required.
Many research hospitals across the country are now introducing and test-casing patients with good results.
Most doctors in these programs feel they are now where exercising was first advocated and proven effective 20 yrs ago for heart patients.
There are few insurance companies will to pay for exercise for cancer patients.
Those of us who know the value of exercise and movements, and work around any physical problems we have, should readily agree to allowing it help recovering cancer patients
