OBJECTIVE
Effectiveness comparison of local and general magneto-therapy for determining differentiated indications in order to prescribe the techniques for early rehabilitation of patients after surgical treatment of breast cancer (BC).
MATERIAL AND METHODS
It was examined 114 women after radical mastectomy for breast cancer. The patients were divided into 3 groups by the method of simple randomization: the control group (37 women) received therapeutic exercises without additional prescription of physiotherapeutic procedures; 1st main group (38 women) — in addition to exercises a course of local magneto-therapy; 2nd main group (39 women) — general magneto-therapy. The results were assessed using a visual analogue pain scale, goniometry results, remote infrared thermography, hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS).
RESULTS
The inclusion of magneto-therapy in the rehabilitation complex reduced local hyperemia and edema in the area of the postoperative suture on the 7th—8th day in 73.7 and 76.9% of patients of the 1st and 2nd groups, respectively, while in the control group a similar result was observed by 10—14 days. Both methods of magneto-therapy eliminated temperature asymmetry and restored the normal thermographic pattern of the skin surface in the area of the surgical field, reduced the severity of pain, and increased the range of motion in the shoulder joint on the side of the operation. When studying the possibility of eliminating the manifestations of asthenic syndrome a comparison of the two studied methods showed the undoubted advantage of the general exposure to a magnetic field. In addition, it has also caused a statistically significant decrease in indicators of anxiety and depression on the HADS scale, while local exposure to a magnetic field did not have a similar effect.
CONCLUSION
The choice of exposure to a magnetic field at the stage of early rehabilitation of women after surgery for breast cancer is determined by the intensity of the pain syndrome, the degree of activity of aseptic inflammation in the area of the postoperative suture, the level of anxiety and depression, and the severity of asthenic syndrome.
