Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 8 , Pages 1002-1008 , August 2007

Quantitative and Clinical Description of Postural Instability in Women With Breast Cancer Treated With Taxane Chemotherapy

Presented, in part, to the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections meeting, February 1–5, 2006, San Diego, CA; the Supportive Oncology meeting, October 6–8, 2005, Chicago, IL; and the International Society of Posture and Gait Research XVIIth Conference, May 29–June 2, 2005, Marseille, France.

  • Meredith A. Wampler, PT, DPTSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation, Harrison Medical Center, Bremerton, WA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Meredith A. Wampler, PT, DPTSc, Harrison Medical Center, Rehabilitation Services, 2520 Cherry Ave, Bremerton, WA 98310
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  • Kimberly S. Topp, PT, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, University of California School of Medicine, and Graduate Program in Physical Therapy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
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  • Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California School of Nursing, San Francisco, CA
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  • Nancy N. Byl, PT, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, University of California School of Medicine, and Graduate Program in Physical Therapy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
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  • Hope S. Rugo, MD

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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  • Kate Hamel, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Kinesiology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.

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    Differences in COP velocities for women with breast cancer (BC) (n=20) and healthy controls (HCs) (n=20). *A Bonferroni adjustment was applied to this analysis. P<.0125 was considered statistically si

    Differences in COP velocities for women with breast cancer (BC) (n=20) and healthy controls (HCs) (n=20). *A Bonferroni adjustment was applied to this analysis. P<.0125 was considered statistically significant, given there were 4 measures of a similar variable.

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    Differences in SOT scores for women with breast cancer (n=20) and healthy controls (n=20). *A Bonferroni adjustment was applied to this analysis. P<.007 was considered statistically significant, given

    Differences in SOT scores for women with breast cancer (n=20) and healthy controls (n=20). *A Bonferroni adjustment was applied to this analysis. P<.007 was considered statistically significant, given there were 7 measures of a similar variable.

 Supported by the California Breast Cancer Research Program, dissertation award (grant no. 10GB-0001).

 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(07)00350-4

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.05.007

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 8 , Pages 1002-1008 , August 2007

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