IN THE SAME BOAT
Special Article for The Times by NJ DeVico
Health & Fitness, May 19, 2008
"I'm always up for it," says Terry Coleman of Lawrenceville about dragon boating. This is her seventh season paddling for Machestic Dragons, a team of breast cancer survivors, and her first as the team's president.
How did a 2000-year-old Chinese sport take hold among modern western breast cancer survivors? Donald McKenzie, MD, a sports medicine physiologist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, launched the first survivor team in 1996 to challenged a theory that repetitive, upper-body exercise in these women encourages lymphedema. On his team, none of the survivors developed the chronic, difficult-to-treat swelling of the limbs, and the exercise exacerbated none of the existing cases.
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