Effects of exercise and oedema massage on fatigue level and quality of life of female breast cancer patients

Odebiyi, Daniel Oluwafemi; Aborowa, Adebusola Temitayo; Sokunbi, Oluwaleke; Aweto, Happiness Anulika; Ajekigbe, Aderemi Tajudeen

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“…In the eight eligible studies, three study populations, areas and aetiologies of lymphoedema were identified: arm BCRL (five studies [ 23 , 26 , 28 , 29 , 31 ]), mixed oedema from venous diseases in the legs (two studies [ 30 , 32 ]) and hand oedema from systemic sclerosis (1 study [ 27 ]) (Table 1 ).…”

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“…The risk of bias due to unbalanced probability of group allocation was low in most studies. However, in one study the computer-generated random list was not concealed [ 31 ] and this information was unclear in four others [ 23 , 28 , 29 , 32 ]. Performance bias was judged high for all trials because the physical nature of the intervention precludes the blinding of the patients to the exposure.…”

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“…Performance bias was judged high for all trials because the physical nature of the intervention precludes the blinding of the patients to the exposure. The risk of attrition bias was considered high in four studies [ 27 – 29 , 31 ] due to imbalances in the number of withdrawals that could be related to the outcome between the groups (Fig. 2 ).…”

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“…Five studies included women who developed lymphoedema after breast cancer treatments [ 23 , 26 , 28 , 29 , 31 ]. The studies used different criteria to define lymphoedema, including clinical diagnosis [ 26 , 31 ] as well as measures of limb volume difference [ 23 , 28 , 29 ]. All trials included few patients in analysis, ranging from 16 [ 23 ] to 56 [ 28 ] in the IG and from 10 [ 31 ] to 39 [ 28 ] in the CG.…”

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“…CDT was the primary intervention in three studies [ 26 , 28 , 29 ]; other concomitant interventions were exercise [ 31 ] and low-level laser therapy [ 23 ]. The schemes of MDL-sessions used in the trials varied from 15 min, twice a week, over 6 weeks [ 31 ] to 60 min, five times a week, during 4 weeks [ 28 ]. Control interventions consisted of exercise, CDT without MLD, electrotherapy and laser therapy (Table 1 ).…”

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Manual lymphatic drainage and quality of life in patients with lymphoedema and mixed oedema: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials

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PurposeTo assess the impact of manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of adults with lymphoedema or mixed oedema, through a systematic review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs).MethodsMEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CENTRAL, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched to identify RCTs evaluating HRQoL after a MLD intervention compared to non-MLD interventions (PROSPERO 2016:CRD42016042255). We extracted the effect of the interventions on the HRQoL (primary outcome) as well as data on volume and functional changes, and adverse events when available (secondary outcomes).ResultsEight studies were eligible. The studies were heterogeneous in the aetiology of oedema, schemes of MLD applied, additional treatments offered with MLD, length of follow-up, instruments used to assess HRQoL and interventions offered to the control group. Five studies included patients with breast cancer-related arm lymphoedema; one study reported increased HRQoL among patients randomised to the MLD group. The two RCTs that involved patients with leg mixed oedema due to chronic venous insufficiency did not find between-group differences in the overall HRQoL. One trial included patients with hand oedema from systemic sclerosis and showed higher HRQoL in the group that received MLD. No studies reported reductions in HRQoL, or severe adverse events after MLD. The small numbers of patients analysed in all studies may have resulted in lack of power to detect between-group differences in HRQoL.ConclusionsThe effect of MLD on the HRQoL of patients with chronic oedema is unclear.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1007/s11136-018-1796-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Manual lymphatic drainage and quality of life in patients with lymphoedema and mixed oedema: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials

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Systematic Review of Functional Outcomes in Cancer Rehabilitation

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Gerber

Marshall³

et al. 2022

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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Characterization and critical appraisal of physiotherapy intervention research in Nigeria: a systematic review

Nweke,

Ejiroghene,

Fawole

et al. 2024

BMC Musculoskelet Disord

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Objectives Clinical research is the bedrock of clinical innovation, education and practice. We characterized and critically appraised physiotherapy clinical research to avoid implementing misleading research findings into practice and to task the Nigerian physiotherapy societies on responsible conduct of clinical research. Methods This is a systematic review of articles published in English between 2009 and 2023. We started with 2009 because at least few Nigerian Physiotherapy school had commenced postgraduate (research) training by then. We searched Pubmed, Medline, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Academic Search Complete, PsycINFO and African Journal Online, and reference lists of relevant articles. We Data were selected and extracted according to predesigned eligibility criteria and using a standardized data extraction table. Where appropriate, the Pedro and Cochrane ROBINS1 were used to examine the risk of bias. Results A total of 76 Nigerian studies were included in this study. The mean age of the study participants was 46.7 ± 8.6 years. Approximately, 45% of the participants were males. Of the clinical experiments, the randomized controlled trial (RCT) was the most common design (87.5%). Musculoskeletal conditions (39.3%) were the most studied disorder. Approximately 86% of the RCT had studies possessed fair to good quality. Interventions constituted exercise therapy (76.3%), manual therapy (8.5%) and electrotherapy (8.5%). More than half (67.8%) of the studies recorded medium to large effect sizes. A fair proportion (48.2%) of the studies had a confounding-by-indication bias. Approximately 43% of the clinical experiments were underpowered, and a few studies conducted normality tests (10.9%) and intention-to-treat analysis (37.5%). Conclusions RCT is the most frequent clinical experiment, with majority of them possessing fair to good quality. The most important flaws include improper computation of sample size, statistical analysis, absent intention-to-treat approach, among others. The magnitude of effects of Physiotherapy interventions varies from nil effect to large effect. Musculoskeletal condition is the most prevalent disorder and exercise is the most important intervention in Nigerian physiotherapy practice. Trial registration We registered the protocol with PROSPERO. The registration number: CRD42021228514.

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Effects of exercise and oedema massage on fatigue level and quality of life of female breast cancer patients

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

Manual lymphatic drainage and quality of life in patients with lymphoedema and mixed oedema: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials

Manual lymphatic drainage and quality of life in patients with lymphoedema and mixed oedema: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials

Systematic Review of Functional Outcomes in Cancer Rehabilitation

Characterization and critical appraisal of physiotherapy intervention research in Nigeria: a systematic review

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