Palliative care is as much about living as about dying, and the role of a physiotherapist is to support living in the face of life-threatening illness and deterioration (Figure 44.1). To achieve this, physiotherapy in palliative care aims to: Both cancer and other long-term life-limiting illness can cause disability and impairment. This can be from the disease itself or from the treatment of the disease (e.g. chemotherapy causing peripheral neuropathy or radiotherapy causing fatigue). Physiotherapy aims to minimise these effects.
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