Efectividad del ejercicio de resistencia progresiva versus tratamiento convencional, en mujeres post mastectomía que asisten al área de terapia física del Hospital de Solca de Guayaquil, año 2022.

Abstract

Mastectomy is a type of surgical intervention in which it consists of removing one or both breasts, in order to eliminate all the carcinogenic material. Usually this intervention is also accompanied by the removal of lymph nodes to avoid any spread or metastasis. The most frequent signs and symptoms presented by post-mastectomy patients are limitation in range of motion, pain and loss of strength of the affected limb. The objective of this work is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the application of progressive resistance exercises over conventional treatment in post-mastectomy women who attend the physical therapy area of the Solca Hospital in Guayaquil. It has an explanatory correlational level methodology of experimental design with a longitudinal cohort. The results allow us to conclude that the progressive resistance exercises had significant changes according to the p value in the variables of range of motion in flexion with 0.04; abduction with 0.03 and external rotation of the shoulder with 0.01; but there were no significant changes between the experimental and control groups in the variables of prehensile force with 0.14; range of motion in shoulder internal rotation with 0.07 and pain with 0.21. In conclusion, the application of progressive resistance exercises had better results to increase the range of movement in relation to the conventional treatment carried out in post-mastectomy women who attend the physical therapy area of the Solca Hospital.