… they may not start doing activities again. For 22 years, Dr. Kathy Lyons has been researching activity engagement in people who are living with and beyond cancer, … “I use the term activity prescription, but it's important to say that in this approach, we don't really do the prescribing,” explains Lyons, a professor at the … of the Cancer Rehabilitation (CaRe) Lab . “It is more of a lifestyle management approach, where we are teaching people to think like therapists and write their own …

… Intervention to Optimize Activity Participation After Breast Cancer,” this approach “resulted in significantly greater improvements in self-selected activity … meaningful to them and closer to their personal long-term recovery goals.  “We’d work on things like exercise to help with the fatigue, or helping do something … the women,” said Lyons. “People told us, ‘Thank you for following up with me. It's been great to talk to you’ and ‘It was really good just to hear that I'm not alone.” …

… published in nursing journal is first to examine how breast cancer survivors approach exercise dose It’s well known that exercise does a body good, and that’s … cancer treatment. Therefore, we looked at how breast cancer survivors think about, approach, and self-manage exercise dose in their own lives.” The study examined 11 … dose after cancer treatment. Participants described using a trial-and-error approach to finding the right exercise dose after cancer treatment, which often …