Essential Exercises for Breast Cancer Survivors: How to Live Stronger and Feel Better

by Andrea Leonard and Amy Halverstadt

Book Overview

Let this book guide you toward a complete recovery of your presurgery strength, flexibility, energy level, and posture. Regain your confidence and positive self-image as well, with the help of this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558321780
• ISBN13: 9781558321786
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Essential Exercises is a great exercise book!

This excellent book will help anyone regain strength after breast surgery. The exercises are divided by level of difficulty. They are clearly explained with text and many, easy-to-follow pictures. The authors include tips to cover all the different kinds of breast cancer surgery. This book would be a very good guide for the beginner as well as someone who was exercising regularly before surgery. Patricia J. Anderson, RN, MN, Author, Breast Cancer: A Patient Guide

Essential is right!

Being a personal trainer, I contacted one of the authors (Andrea Leonard) who was offering a training course based on her book. I jumped at the chance. The book is filled with great exercises, information and resources. The book is not only essential for exercising, but essential to personal trainers who want to work with breast cancer clients. This book is a groundbreaking standard in the field.

A definite must for ANY health professional

I have the 2000 edition of this book and ABSOLUTELY love it! I am a post-rehab conditioning specialist as well as a personal trainer and recommend this book to anyone that will have to design an exercise program for breast cancer survivors. It provides excellent information about different surgical procedures and exercise indications and contraindications! It illustrates and explains "level appropriate" exercises for stretching, ROM, and resistance training! GREAT REFERENCE BOOK!