The O'Reilly Physiotherapy Centre, Lymphedema, Cancer Rehab

11/03/2025

Registration is now open for Lymphoedema Ireland Open Day on the 29th March 2005 at St Luke's Hospital.

My talk is " Top 5 Tips for Living Well with Lymphoedema"

Just click on the link below to purchase your ticket. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1258714331449?aff=oddtdtcreator

Registration is now open for our Open Day on the 29th March 2025. Just click on the link in the attached to purchase your ticket. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1258714331449?aff=oddtdtcreator

Looking forward to seeing you there!!

12/09/2023

Check out these helpful resources for people dealing with the war and cancer

Cancer.Net and the American Cancer Society compiled resources to help people with cancer navigate their cancer care during the crisis in Ukraine. To learn more about ASCO's response to the war in Ukraine, visit ASCO's main website.Cancer.Net ResourcesResources in EnglishManaging Your Cancer Care Dur...

11/09/2023

Great article if you are creating a new service or program, read on for career and life advice gems from some of the most successful people around.

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19/07/2023

Great pointers on how to start running and #1 is sign up for a 5k race

Starting a new running habit doesn’t have to be hard. The Well Guide makes it easy to get started, get inspired and stay on track. Are you ready? Let’s go!

12/07/2023

Please donate to breast cancer research foundation so they can continue to support researchers such as Drs. Lawrence Shulman and Cyprien Shyirambere have developed effective strategies to integrate early detection services into rural Rwanda’s health care system and reduce time to treatment. They are now working to expand these efforts to reach more women with the goal of reducing preventable breast cancer deaths in Rwanda and other countries.

17/06/2023

ASCO conference 2023, great article on the latest research on benefits of yoga and cancer prevention, progression and recurrence. Researchers are encouraging cancer clinicians to prescribe yoga to all age groups. Cancer rehab physiotherapists like myself at https://milltownphysiotherapy.com can assess people to establish their yoga starting point and any precautions they may need to observe so they can start and sustain their own daily or weekly yoga practice.

For decades, many oncologists have remained reluctant to push patients to exercise, but the tide appears to be turning

28/05/2023

In memory of sweet, kind and gentle Sigurd Hanson who has died. Deepest condolences to dear Semi, their family and dear
friends at The International Rescue Committee https://www.rescue.org

View Sigurd C. Hanson's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

24/04/2023

Siobhan’s Breast Cancer Level 4 Exercises, week 3 of 52, started with dynamic warmup (Desikachar’s Yoga practice 1), then HIIT on app “7”, see first 4 exercises below finished with a recovery walk. I took recovery days in between workouts this week.

17/04/2023

Our tip this week is from Lucy a 54 woman and classical singer who manages a combination of lipoedema (also spelt lipedema) and lymphoedema (also spelt lymphedema) in both of her arms and legs. Lucy’s condition started in puberty and was undiagnosed and untreated in its early stages. Today, her legs are swollen and tender to touch and often so tender she cannot tolerate donning her compression garments (especially after a singing performance when she must stand for several hours). Lucy is meticulous about her daily self-care which includes meticulous skin care, exercise and manual lymph drainage (MLD). Lucy has many tips to share and to-day’s is The Lady Shaver 6000 made by Philips. Yes, she pays more but she says it’s the best she has come across. After her shower, Lucy sits in a chair, rests each leg on a chair so she does not hurt her back and carefully shaves each leg a little as a time. Thanks for the tip Lucy.

14/04/2023

Just finished my daily exercises … a “dynamic warm-up” with Desikachar’s Yoga Practice 1, then did an intense 7 minutes of HIIT aerobics with the app “ 7 “ and “cooled down” with a 20 minute “recovery walk”. Today’s walk was at the mouth of the River Leannan and on the western shore of Lough Swilly, Co Donegal .

12/04/2023

In our e-Learning Academy in Breast Cancer Rehab for Physiotherapists and Health Care Professionals https://theoreillycentre.thinkific.com we have 5 courses covering early-stage-lymphedema. The aim of these evidenced based courses is to enable “at risk” patients to reduce their risks and to manage early-stage lymphedema so it doesn’t progress. The courses include:
1. 3.7 Lymphedema
2. 3.8 Measuring
3. 3.9 Compression sleeves
4. 3.10 Self-Care
5. 3.11 Self-Manual Lymph Drainage