Abstract
The goals of rehabilitation efforts in the cancer setting include relieving symptoms, improving quality of life, enhancing functional independence, and preventing further complications. Achieving these goals involves an interdisciplinary rehabilitation team including physiatry, nursing, physical and occupational therapists, speech therapists, social workers, and case managers. Incorporation of a certified prosthetist/orthotist should also be included as bracing can represent a step in conservative rehabilitation care for selected patients. Many different off-the-shelf and custom bracing options are available. Selection of brace is based on a patient’s needs, medical and oncologic status, surgical status, and stability, goals, and mobility.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Lee SH, Grant R, Kennedy C, Kilbride L. Positioning and spinal bracing for pain relief in metastatic spinal cord compression in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015;9:CD007609.
Lantz SA, Schultz AB. Lumbar spine orthosis wearing. II. Effect on trunk muscle myoelectric activity. Spine. 1986;11(8):838–42.
Kim DH, Chang UK, Kim SH, Bilsky MH, editors. Tumors of the spine. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier; 2008.
Sciubba DM, Gokaslan ZL. Diagnosis and management of metastatic spine disease. Surg Oncol. 2006;15(3):141–51.
Raj VS, Lofton L. Rehabilitation and treatment of spinal cord tumors. J Spinal Cord Med. 2013;36(1):4–11.
Chang V, Holly LT. Bracing for thoracolumbar fractures. Neurosurg Focus. 2014;37(1):E3.
Longo UG, Loppini M, Denaro L, Maffulli N, Denaro V. Osteoporotic vertebral fractures: current concepts of conservative care. Br Med Bull. 2012;102:171–89.
Spinal cord medicine. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; 2011.
Vaccaro A, editor. Fractures of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. New York: Marcel Dekker Inc; 2002.
Wong CC, McGirt MJ. Vertebral compression fractures: a review of current management and multimodal therapy. J Multidiscip Healthc. 2013;6:205–14.
Sinaki M. Exercise for patients with osteoporosis: management of vertebral compression fractures and trunk strengthening for fall prevention. PMR. 2012;4(11):882–8.
Kim EK, Kim JS. Correlation between rounded shoulder posture, neck disability indices, and degree of forward head posture. J Phys Ther Sci. 2016;28(10):2929–32.
Seidel C, Kuhnt T, Kortmann RD, Hering K. Radiation-induced camptocormia and dropped head syndrome: review and case report of radiation-induced movement disorders. Strahlenther Onkol. 2015;191(10):765–70.
Walsh NE, Schwartz RK. The influence of prophylactic orthoses on abdominal strength and low back injury in the workplace. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 1990;69(5):245–50.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Ruppert, L.M., Yakaboski, M. (2019). Rehabilitation-Bracing as a Conservative Treatment Option. In: Gulati, A., Puttanniah, V., Bruel, B., Rosenberg, W., Hung, J. (eds) Essentials of Interventional Cancer Pain Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99684-4_48
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99684-4_48
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-99682-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-99684-4
eBook Packages: MedicineMedicine (R0)