Before the Surgery and Early Recovery: Preparing your Body for Success

Our guest speaker:

This lecture will cover the following topics:

Before Surgery: Preparing Your Body for Success
• Prehabilitation tips to build strength, improve posture, and enhance tissue mobility
• Breathwork and stretching to improve chest expansion and lymphatic flow
• Identifying pre-existing restrictions that may impact surgical outcomes

Early Recovery: Moving Through the First Weeks
• Safe movements and positions for early healing
• The importance of listening to your body—how to move, but not overdo

*Registration is required

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Diana Tjaden: Diana’s passion for oncology rehabilitation began in 2000 with the cancer diagnosis and then passing of her father. It was during that time that she began to understand the strong impact physical therapists can have when caring for this population. In 2003 Diana treated her first patient who was recovering from a breast cancer diagnosis. Her quest for knowledge in this area led her to develop Full Circle Breast Cancer Recovery Program in 2009.
In December of 2020, Diana partnered with Ivy Rehab with the goal of spreading this specialty program throughout Ivy Rehab’s network around the country. Her mission at this time is to incorporate physical therapy into the plan of care of every patient who is diagnosed with breast cancer!
Ivy Rehab’s Garden City office still remains the only practice on Long Island exclusively devoted to the care of patients’ recovery from a breast cancer diagnosis or those recovering from prophylactic surgery.
She has over 21 years of experience as a physical therapist with a manual/orthopedic background specializing in working with this unique and specialized population. Diana continues to be a guest lecturer for several organizations about all the aspects of breast cancer rehabilitation and has received several awards for her devotion and expertise.

Abby Wolfin: My name is Abby Wolfin, I am a board-certified clinical specialist in oncologic physical therapy. This will be my fourth year working with Diana and her team at Full Circle-Ivy Rehab. It is an honor to help women improve their quality of life with physical therapy throughout their breast cancer journey.