Effects of a 6‐Month, Group‐Based, Therapeutic Exercise Program for Childhood Cancer Outpatients on Motor Performance, Level of Activity, and Quality of Life

Abstract

The exercise intervention was beneficial in terms of motor performance, level of activity, and emotional well-being. As such, this study provides support for group-based exercise as a potential strategy to improve these outcomes after inpatient medical treatment.

Body composition in long‐term survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia diagnosed in childhood and adolescence: A focus on sarcopenic obesity

“…Such concerns demand that awareness be heightened and that strategies for the prevention/amelioration of the premature‐aging phenotype in such survivors be developed and put to the test. The challenges in doing so have been well described, and efforts to date have met with mixed results, although a recent study offers hope for improvement . In that report, children who had completed treatment for a variety of cancers were offered a 6‐month, group‐based exercise program.…”

“…The challenges in doing so have been well described, 46 and efforts to date have met with mixed results, 47 although a recent study offers hope for improvement. 48 In that report, children who had completed treatment for a variety of cancers were offered a 6-month, group-based exercise program. Those who did participate showed significantly greater gains in motor performance and overall activity than those who did not participate.…”

Investigation of the Effects of an Exercise Program on Physical Functions and Activities of Daily Life in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

“…We believe that factors, such as post‐HSCT protective attitudes of the families, keeping isolated rooms for children at home, and implementing supervised exercise program for 6 weeks was inadequate to provide an exercise habit for children, and thus prevented the continuation of the self‐administered exercise program. These results suggest that an exercise program supervised by physiotherapist is more effective than self‐administered home exercise program, as stated in literature for childhood cancer patients …”

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“…Korea that measures CRF, flexibility, muscle strength, quickness, and body mass index. No changes were found for CRF in the only study [19] that applied the Deutscher Motoriktest 6-18, a battery test that assesses endurance, strength, coordination, and flexibility. Another study [32] tion, but with no changes at week 16 (end of the intervention).…”