Cancer Care
Getting a cancer diagnosis can upend your life — physically and emotionally. Finding ways to feel better, maintain or increase energy levels, and cope with stress will help you feel back in control of your body and mind.
Nutrition
The food you eat during and after cancer treatment can play an important role in your recovery. Our goal is to help you feel your best while managing issues such as fatigue, pain, digestion problems, nausea, mouth sores, and weight changes.
Nutrition consultation – An anti-inflammatory diet is key to tissue recovery and cancer prevention. Key foods and nutrients specific to medication adherence or desired cellular effects can greatly benefit your course of treatment or preventive care.
Health Coach
Stress Management
It might seem normal to constantly worry and feel stressed after receiving a cancer diagnosis. However, research has shown that stress can negatively impact overall health issues and cause headaches, anxiety, insomnia, depression, and lead to unhealthy behaviors like over or under eating. Learning to cope with stressors is your first step toward feeling more in control and relaxing into each moment.
Massage therapy - Oncology trained massage therapist can help reduce pain, stress, nausea, depression and anxiety, improve sleep and lessen fatigue, as well as relieve peripheral neuropathy.
Guided Relaxation - Helps you achieve a state of inner calm and can decrease blood pressure, muscle tension and, perhaps of most importance, provide a sense of peace.
M-technique - Uses light touch to induce relaxation and aid in stress relief.
Acupuncture - Helpful in reducing pain, peripheral neuropathy, fatigue, dry mouth and vomiting, as well as effective for full body relaxation.
Sound and Energy therapy - Experience deep relaxation with this emersion of sound, vibrations, and soothing energy to reduce stress, strengthen the immune system and reduce chronic pain.
Naturopathic medicine - Best used as adjunctive therapy to add safe and effective natural treatments to cancer care and prevention. Through the use of appropriate supplementation, herbs, diet, sleep hygiene, activity, and many self-care ideas, natural medicine provides are a great way to balance the mind and body during stressful times.
 |
For more information contact Sharon O’Brien,
sobrien@mandelljcc.org, 860-231-6333 |
Fitness
An expert panel convened by the American College of Sports Medicine found strong evidence that even a half hour of aerobic exercise done three times a week can combat anxiety, depression, and fatigue and improve quality of life and physical function. (People with cancer should work with their doctors to tailor an exercise regimen.) The panel also found that, for people diagnosed with breast, colon, or prostate cancer, there is evidence of an association between exercise and longer survival.
Personal Training - Farrah Mead, Fitness Director, fmead@mandelljcc.org
Pilates Reformer - Carmen Erian, Group Fitness Director, cerian@mandelljcc.org
Group fitness - Carmen Erian, Group Fitness Director, cerian@mandelljcc.org
Water Exercise - Jaine Mazer, Aquatics Director, jmazer@mandelljcc.org
< Back to Health & Wellness Programming
