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• TITLE: Appropriateness of a Physiotherapic Treatment Protocol for the Axillary Web Syndrome, Applied in a Territorial Rehabilitation Service: Description of a Clinical Case

  AUTHORS: Luca Collebrusco, Antonietta Tufi, Elisabetta Brunori

  KEYWORDS: Axillary Web Syndrome, Manual Therapy, Soft Tissue Mobilization, Exercise Therapy, Case Report

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, Vol.8 No.3, July 28, 2020

  ABSTRACT: The “Axillary web syndrome” (AWS) is an early complication following breast cancer surgery with axillary lymph nodes dissection. Case Report: The patient is a 69-year-old woman, retired ex-employee, with outcome surgery right axillary lymphadenectomy with shoulder pain and functional limitation with diagnosis AWS it where it was recommended the physiotherapy. The patient had improvement in terms of shoulder function and pain and quality of life. Conclusions: The description of the clinical case afflicted with AWS and the treatment protocol applied, highlighted the good performance of the results, notably as concerns patient’s quality of life. This result could represent a starting point for creating clinical trials aimed at building appropriate rehabilitation route in territorial rehabilitation services.