Cancer Rehabilitation

Improve strength, function, and the quality of your life before, during and after cancer treatment with experts at the Outpatient Burke Cancer Rehabilitation Program. Cancer rehabilitation helps you understand your symptoms and how to best manage them. Our goal is to optimize your independence and well-being, supporting your return to daily activities and meaningful life roles.

Benefits of Cancer Rehabilitation

Cancer rehabilitation helps with the physical, psychological, and cognitive effects of cancer and its treatment.

• Reduce pain, cancer-related-fatigue, weakness, and physical deconditioning
• Improve mobility, endurance and overall physical function
• Restore coordination, dexterity, range of motion, balance
• Reduce anxiety and depression
• Treat cancer-related cognitive impairment

Conditions We Treat

• Cancer-related lymphedema
• Neuromusculoskeletal Impairments
• Neuropathy
• and more

Services & Procedures

Our goal is to optimize your independence and well-being, supporting your return to daily activities and a meaningful life through:

• Lifestyle Medicine
• Prehabilitation, Restorative Rehabilitation, Supportive Rehabilitation, Palliative Rehabilitation
• Survivorship Education
• Functional Assessment - Objective Measures of Physical Function
• (SOZO) Lymphedema Program with Bioimpedance Spectroscopy - innovative, non-invasive technology for early lymphedema surveillance and precise body composition analysis. By detecting subtle fluid changes before symptoms appear, it enables earlier intervention, helping improve outcomes and reduce the risk of chronic progression.
• Body Composition/Fluid Analysis
• Pain Management
• Trigger Point Injections, Corticosteroid Injections, Ultrasound Guided Joint, Bursae, and Nerve Injections
• Bracing

Your Cancer Rehabilitation Care Team

Your care begins with a comprehensive evaluation and physical examination by a Cancer Rehabilitation Physician in the Burke Outpatient Physician Practice to understand your medical history, current symptoms, and personal goals. Our team creates an individualized care plan to help you recover from your physical impairments related to cancer, cancer treatments, or normal aging.

Team members may include:

• Physical therapists (including pelvic floor therapists)
• Occupational therapists
• Lymphedema therapists
• Speech, language and swallowing pathologists
• Neuropsychologists
• Orthotists for bracing
• Pain specialists

Education and guidance are provided to help you safely manage symptoms and maintain progress at home. Cancer rehabilitation is a collaborative process designed to support healing, restore function, and help you live as fully and comfortably as possible.