Thriving After Breast Cancer: Essential Healing Exercises for Body and Mind

The months following breast cancer treatment can pose a host of emotional and physical challenges. Now, the groundbreaking dance and movement therapy program hailed by more than one hundred hospitals around the country is presented in Thriving After Breast Cancer - an essential guide to healing both body and mind and to recovering your pretreatment energy, strength, flexibility and posture. The "Focus on Healing" program, developed by breast cancer survivor Sherry Davis and her two brothers, both physicians, is a fun, rejuvenating regimen of stretches and dance moves that work to rehabilitate your body, safely and effectively. The simple routines are tailored to relieving pain, restoring flexibility, combating fatigue, emotional recovery, living with lymphedema, developing balance, coping with menopause, exploring your femininity and recovering from reconstruction. Complete with warm-up routines for different sports, mind-body exercises, and nutritional advice, Thriving After Breast Cancer is an uplifting, empowering handbook for every woman who wants to rebuild the life that she loves.

A breakthrough book for America's 2.5 million breast cancer survivors, showcasing the pioneering "Focus on Healing" exercise-and-movement program touted by physicians coast-to-coast and recommended by the American Cancer Society.

The months following breast cancer treatment can bring a difficult combination of emotional and physical challenges, including a decreased range of motion, pain, fatigue, and depression. But when Sherry Lebed Davis's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1979, Davis and her two brothers, both physicians, created a special movement therapy program to speed their mother's healing. Spurring extraordinary success in her and many others, "Focus on Healing" soon became on of the first hospital-endorsed dance and exercise programs in the nation, a prescription that Davis came to appreciate even more when she herself became a breast-cancer survivor in 1996.

Taking a unique, proven approach to healing, Thriving After Breast Cancer shares the easy-to-follow techniques that have improved the lives of thousands of patients. Embracing psychological recovery and treatment of chronic pain, Davis's "Focus on Healing" regimen consists of stretches and dance-inspired moves that restore flexibility and balance while minimizing discomfort. With exercises to address a full range of specific situations, whether the reader has experienced chemotherapy, a lumpectomy, of a full masectomy, Thriving After Breast Cancer offers solutions that can be gently eased into a patient's routine. Now adopted by more than one hundred hospitals around the country (including New York City's prestigious Memorial Sloan-Kettering) and picking up where medical treatment leaves off, Davis's program gives breast cancer survivors an uplifting, empowering next step on the road to restoring the life that they life.