Influence of hand function training and hand Eye coordination training in enhancing Quality of life following modified radical Mastectomy for breast cancer patients

Abstract

Breast Cancer is the cancer usually originates in the breast cells and most commonly in the ducts. Risk factors include age, lifestyle, hormone replacement therapy, family history and many more. As a part of its treatment, Modified Radical Mastectomy considered one of the best options that involve the removal of entire breast along with some axillary lymph nodes to prevent the cancer to spread. Being one of the best treatment choices, Modified Radical Mastectomy can have some complications too. Like shoulder kinematics, Upper limb lymphedema, and many more. To overcome those complications, Physiotherapy plays a vital newlinerole in the recovery process post mastectomy. And one of the physiotherapy protocols called newlinehand eye coordination and hand functions training would be helpful for improving the qualityof-life post mastectomy. Here in this newlineresearch, we have tried to overcome the post newlinemastectomy complication by means of physiotherapy and improved the quality of life for the patients. The study aims to find the effect of adding Hand function (HF) training and hand eye coordination (HEC) training along with conventional shoulder rehabilitation in managing pain, active range of motion (AROM), disability, the quality of life following modified radical mastectomy for breast cancer patients. A study had been conducted in 3 phases where at phase 1 we have concluded that pain in the shoulder had a greater influence on hand function and hand eye coordination than did the disability. While in phase 2, it was an experimental study. In which we have concluded that newlineboth the control group and HEC groups were effective in treating post mastectomy patients but control group was not having any effect on hand eye coordination for the patients. While in phase 3, we have assessed patients for long term follow up and we have found hand eye coordination group were effective more prominently even after 6 months of period than compared to control group.