Clinical Evaluation of Physiotherapy as Early Detection of Breast Carcinoma | Chapter 15 | An Overview of Disease and Health Research Vol. 2

Introduction: An increasing incidence of Breast Cancer at an early age is associated with higher human functional disturbances and a huge economic burden. Early identification and due Oncological interventions have been shown to overcome these hurdles. Common clinical conditions, physical findings, concerning symptoms, age, family history, gender, psychosocial details, systemic conditions, habits, and stressful living conditions were highly considered to give a link to breast cancer. Modern living is associated with greater health hazards, including cancers. Among which breast carcinoma ranks with a higher prevalence in adult women. Physical laboratory investigations and screening. Early identification to a larger extent can influence better outcomes and longevity, especially for breast cancer subjects.

 

Objectives: As physical therapist frequently involved in treating neck and low back ache as first contact healthcare expert, this research highlights importance of patients with chronic neck pain to be screened for lymph nodes, other related complaints like stiff neck, increasing atrophy, constant continuous pain, most of these could be related to malignancy while these subjects can be referred to physician or oncologist for to be detected and treated with due medical care for an enhanced post onco surgical living standard. Hence, the research aims to analyse how concerning symptoms and physical evaluation provide a link to breast cancer, and also to scientifically investigate how reliable clinical findings related to breast cancer are.

 

Materials and Methods: A 59-year-old diabetic subject with chronic continuous neck pain with nodules over the posterior cervical spine was referred to undergo mammography by a physiotherapist through a physician. She was diagnosed later with hypermetabolic malignant lesion of the left breast and underwent modified left radical mastectomy. Later, she was getting treated for her physical functioning, in improving QOL was discussed with due evidence for the period 2020 to 2022.

 

Results: Stressful life events to various diseases, including cancer, by increasing the risk of breast cancer. Fibromyalgia is a common clinical condition among women. While treating a fibromyalgia, female for chronic arthralgia, a physiotherapist considers this as an autoimmune disorder with multiple fat nodules in the body. Any abnormal increase in swelling, pain should be referred to medical experts. With lesser follow-up post-mastectomy and early identification by physiotherapists remain key components of this research. Findings of this research can form the foundation of onco-physiotherapy in early clinical screening and referral to a medical expert.

 

Conclusions: Learned evidence-based knowledge should be used clinically, especially for referral to medical experts, as shown in this research. The grey point of this research was timely referral, self-confidence of the therapist, faith of the patient in the physiotherapist can surely elevate greater quality of the physiotherapy profession and the Quality of life of affected subjects. If adhered can become a novel means of physiotherapy evaluation concerning symptoms and could be included in every patient's physical evaluation in future.

 

 

Author(s) Details

Subramanian SS
Sree Balaji College of Physiotherapy, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, India.

Priya R
Sree Balaji College of Physiotherapy, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, India.

 

Madhan Kumar
Sree Balaji College of Physiotherapy, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, India.

 

               

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