Effect of an Oral Therapeutic Patient Education Session on Physical Activity in Patients With Cancer

The physiotherapist discusses and goes through each page of the booklet and involves the patient as much as possible. He demonstrates the exercises proposed in the booklet and then ask the patient to perform them in front of him. The physiotherapist tries to identify the patient's needs and suggests different ways to ensure that the patient has different opportunities to maintain the best possible level of PA

The booklet (11 pages): explains why it is important to maintain a good level of PA as part of cancer treatment and reviews the most common side effects of cancer therapy and the relative importance of PA in combating these effects (pages 2-3) ; defines PA, its modalities and possible security precautions (pages 4-5), suggests exercises to be performed oneself and a target intensity to be reached (pages 6-8), provides a roadmap to be completed oneself (pages 9-10), and outlines procedures for joining an exercise medicine group (page 11).