NCT05303675

The Effect of Arm Exercises on Arm Oedema After Breast Cancer Surgery

The Effect of Education, Lymphedema Risk Scoring, and Progressive Upper Extremity Exercises on Strengthening the Self-care Skills of Women Who Have Breast Cancer Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Gulseren MARAS · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In order to prevent lymphedema after breast surgery, patients are advised to know the risk factors for lymphedema and to avoid situations that may cause lymphedema, to perform active and passive arm exercises, to evaluate the affected area for lymphedema, to perform self-care and this should be under the self-management of the patients. Investigators think that this study will have a positive effect on the literature since there are no studies on risk scoring, the combined use of training and exercises to strengthen self-care skills in preventing the development of breast cancer-associated lymphedema. From this point of view, the study was planned as a randomized controlled experiment to examine the effects of preoperative lymphedema scoring and postoperative progressive upper extremity exercises on upper extremity function and self-care in women with breast cancer.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer Female
• Breast Cancer Lymphedema

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	exercise and training	Preoperative: An introductory information form will be filled out, and a lymphedema self-care and exercise booklet will be given. Postoperative: Patients will be applied Progressive Upper Limb Exercises and Muscle Relaxation Training (PULE-MRT), lymphedema upper extremity circumference measurement, and symptom alert model until discharge, and Muscle Relaxation Training will continue until discharge. Post-Discharge: They will be asked to record a diary at home. PULE-MRT will continue until day 15. The 15-day exercise program will continue for up to 3 months. Follow-up will be made by telephone according to the symptom alert model at the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd months, and at the end of the 3rd month, the breast cancer-related lymphedema self-care scale will be administered.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-18
• Primary completion: 2022-08-01
• Completion: 2024-10-30
• First posted: 2022-03-31
• Last updated: 2024-11-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)