title: The Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Care Team and the Role of Physical Therapy in Survivor Exercise.
abstract: Rehabilitation professionals offer expertise in functional assessment, treatment of impairments and functional limitations, and disability prevention. To optimize recovery, and often prior to participating in community-based exercise programming, survivors may need rehabilitation services from a range of healthcare professionals, including physiatrists, nurses, nutritionists, psychologists, and speech, occupational, and physical therapists.
  
  
  
  Survivors with physical impairments and functional limitations may benefit from interdisciplinary rehabilitation and physical therapy, including tailored therapeutic exercise interventions.
  
  
  
  A literature review was conducted using the key words cancer survivor, cancer rehabilitation, impairment, fatigue, lymphedema, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, and exercise. MEDLINE®, EMBASE, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and CINAHL® databases were searched.
  
  
  
  Nurses play a critical role in identifying survivors whose function or fitness is compromised to the point where participation in community-based exercise programming would be inappropriate or unsafe. The interdisciplinary rehabilitation care team can help facilitate the survivor's transition to community-based exercise programming.
authors.affiliation: University of Alberta in Edmonton.
authors.forename: Margaret L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: McNeely
authors.affiliation: University of Alberta in Edmonton.
authors.forename: Naomi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dolgoy
authors.affiliation: University of Alberta in Edmonton.
authors.forename: Mona
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Onazi
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Suderman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005221:Fatigue / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D011788:Quality of Life; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012737:Sex Factors; D017741:Survivors
keywords: cancer; cancer rehabilitation; exercise; impairment; physical therapy