At Chestnut Hill Physical we understand the complexities of caring for patients before, during, and after cancer treatment. Our holistic approach will help you live your best life possible, with greater ease and energy in body, mind, and spirit. Emphasizing skilled, hands-on treatment, our goal is to minimize pain, decrease reliance on medication, and most of all create a customized pathway to healing.
Through education and a variety of treatment modalities, we can help you become an active participant in your care, reducing symptoms and ultimately regaining balance and a sense of control in your life. Part of what we offer all patients - whether they come once, a few times, or regularly - is a connection to other resources, like care products or consultations, that are in a network of providers and organizations.
Through education and a variety of treatment modalities, we can help you become an active participant in your care, reducing symptoms and ultimately regaining balance and a sense of control in your life. Part of what we offer all patients - whether they come once, a few times, or regularly - is a connection to other resources, like care products or consultations, that are in a network of providers and organizations.
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Robin Ryan Marquez is a licensed physical therapist with more than 30 years in practice. She cares for more than her patient's physical needs and limitations. Her approach is grounded in scientific principles and training, and yet she attends to the whole person and their desire for emotional balance, physical ease, and encouragement.
Cancer treatment can be devastating to the mind, body, and spirit. Though medical interventions address the disease, they may come with side effects causing pain, discomfort, fatigue, and other changes that diminish both ability and energy. Physical therapy can help. Our treatments alleviate the issues brought on by surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.
Lymphedema is a stagnation of lymph - a fluid that contains infection-fighting white blood cells - that is no longer recirculating in the body. There are a variety of stages of lymphedema, and the early stages are reversible. While it may be an outcome of cancer treatment, lymphedema has other causes.
It is not unusual to experience pain following surgical, radiation, or chemotherapy treatment for cancer. The pain may have a primary cause, as in the wounds from incisions and the burns from irradiated tissue, or it may be secondary, as in the numbness that results from nerve changes associated with cancer treatment.
Compression garments can be helpful in managing lymphedema and scar management in a noninvasive manner. The compression helps the scars to minimize because the compression causes the collagen - an abundant protein in connective tissues and skin - to lay down in a parallel fashion so it does not become raised.
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