Helpful BC physio videos

Going through breast cancer treatment Top tips and practical support
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I found an Australian breast cancer physiotherapist who does videos on YouTube. The Breast Cancer Physio, Jen Mckenzie:

https://m.youtube.com/@TheBreastCancerPhysio

They are absolutely brilliant - so useful and reassuring - loads of helpful tips on every aspect of BC treatment that I never got from anyone during my treatment and since. Why don’t we get told all this??

After a very painful 2nd year mammogram on the treated breast I got no possible explanation or reassurance from either mammographer (who was lovely and very sympathetic) or BC nurse. Just a lecture in how some women do find mammograms more painful than others. I said this was a different experience this year - and just pain in the treated breast which scared me - and even asked if radiotherapy might be the cause, but the nurse didn’t say it could be. She just said it was normal to sometimes feel pain but this didn’t reassure me because I didn’t feel she was listening! She wasn’t concerned, but she didn’t allay my fears! This particular video covered my current problem clearly and reassuringly.

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Thank you for sharing this!

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They are brilliant! :+1:

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Thank you for sharing this. I had side effects from lumpectomy and radiotherapy and seeing a lovely physio at Velindre. However it took me months to see her, having originally been referred to a local physio who was not clued up on cancer treatment.

This video is really helpful in understanding why my first mammogram was painful. The side squeeze was the worst for me as I have side scars and some fibrosis. I wasn’t given any information on how to deal with it by the radiographer/mammographer even though I said how painful it was.

There are lots of other helpful videos especially the radiation fibrosis.

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It was the side squeeze that got me too, and was so different that it scared me - it felt like it was damaging me! No one suggested scar tissue or fibrosis…why not?? Don’t they know? This lady in the video is quite clear on the subject! I will tell the BC nurses about the videos, but will they share them with patients?
Spread the word! :heart:

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