Yoga for Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors
The body that has been through cancer treatment has been through something specific: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, hormonal therapy, or some combination of these — each of which leaves its own signature in the tissues, the nervous system, the immune function, and the energy reserves. Yoga does not undo any of this. What it can do — and what research on therapeutic yoga for cancer patients increasingly documents — is support the body's own recovery intelligence: reducing the chronic inflammation that treatment elevates, restoring range of motion that surgery and treatment restrict, moderating the anxiety and depression that accompany the disease and its aftermath, and rebuilding the relationship between the person and their body that serious illness disrupts. This clinical guide…
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