Essential Exercises for Breast Cancer Survivors
How to Live Stronger and Feel BetterBy Amy Halverstadt, Andrea Leonard
Essential Exercises for Breast Cancer Survivors includes more than 100 pages of exercises, divided into four levels of difficulty and illustrated with more than 140 photographs. This book tells you how to asses your readiness for exercise, set personal goals, and advance through the program at a safe and effective pace.
Praise
“This book will educate you and motivate you to become the active person you’re destined to be.”
—Dr. Shawna C. Willey, chief of Breast Surgery at the George Washington University Medical Center
“It is my philosophy to teach my patients to take charge of their physical ailments. Amy Halverstadt and Andrea Leonard do just that in an easy-to-follow, safe, and extremely crucial program for women recovering from breast surgery. I consider this book required reading for anyone recovering from or close to someone who has undergone surgery and/or treatment for breast cancer.”
—Rosalie Begun, owner of Begun Physical Therapy
“It is wonderful that there is finally a sound resource available from which breast cancer survivors can safely learn how to adopt a physically active life.”
—Dana Alexis Phares, coordinator of Gene Exercise Research Study, University of Maryland, and former director of Women’s Exercise Research Center, George Washington University, 1991-1998
“I was amazed at the benefits to my physical conditioning, but the program’s even greater value has been in providing me with a sense of wellness, not only of the body but of mind and spirit as well.”
—Katherine Anthony, EM-POWER program alumna