MedStar Health's cancer rehabilitation provides a physician-directed, interdisciplinary program tailored to each patient's individual rehabilitative needs. These include:
- Bladder and bowel dysfunction
- Chronic and acute pain
- Decreased ability to perform activities of daily living
- Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing)
- Fatigue
- Impaired mobility (deconditioning, weakness, or loss of flexibility)
- Lymphedema
- Nutritional concerns (skin integrity)
- Psychosocial difficulties (depression, loss and grief)
- Safety/cognitive concerns (evaluation of assistive devices and adaptive equipment)
- Spinal and brain injuries secondary to cancer
- Vocational training needs
An occupational therapist performs a thorough assessment and provides a personalized care plan to help patients learn how to use time and energy efficiently, and a physical therapy program may be recommended for specialized, structured exercise for cancer patients.