Pilates and Breast Cancer
Exercise may be the last thing you feel like doing after breast cancer surgery. You're probably exhausted, your arm may be painful and swollen and the adjuvant treatments can make you feel even worse. All you want to do is rest. In the past, that's exactly what doctors recommended. However, recent studies indicate a link between moderate physical exercise and improved quality of life for breast cancer survivors.
We are dedicated to promoting a healthy lifestyle and positive body image to all breast cancer survivors. The Pink Ribbon Program designed by an Exercise physiologist who also happens to be a breast cancer survivor, will help stretch and strengthen the shoulder, chest, back and abdominal muscles, allowing women to regain full range of motion to those areas affected by breast cancer surgery. This program is suitable whether your surgery was recent or several years ago and accommodates all fitness levels.
Benefits of the Pink Ribbon Program
Reduces feelings of depression
Improves self confidence and control
Helps regain strength and mobility in
affected shoulder and armEnhances energy levels
Helps control weight
Improves sleep
Decreases stress and tension
Enhances physical and mental well being
Donna Zaloom, certified Pilates teacher and owner of Longevity Pilates, is a Certified Breast Cancer Exercise Specialist (BCES). She is also a Breast Cancer Survivor who knows the debilitating effects breast cancer surgery and adjuvant treatments can have on a woman, both physically and emotionally. After her treatments, she searched for a program that could help her return to her active lifestyle. When she founded the Pink Ribbon Program she knew that she wanted to share this valuable work with other survivors.
Longevity Pilates regularly holds events and fundraisers to help find a cure for breast cancer. We ask that you join us in supporting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.