New article on the benefits of weight lifting for Lymphedema

Not that I’ve been great about working out, I canceled my gym membership last month because I wasn’t using it. My doctor and the bathroom scale have been good at pointing out the lack, but exercise really does help anyone that has had lymph nodes removed. Most of the research on this comes from helping Breast Cancer survivors, but it’s the exact same for other cancers that spread lymphatically. I have been playing b-ball though and it’s really helped my swelling a lot over the past year. Not that you’d be able to tell from my 3-pointer though.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/13/weight.lifting.breast.cancer/index.html