Breast Cancer Study With Lankenau Hospital
Breast Cancer Study With Lankenau Hospital and an article written in Main Line Today Magazine Click HERE
It was July 2007 and I was on my way to IDEA World Fitness Convention, a fitness conference held in San Diego, when I sat next to an research oncologist from Drexel University. We started talking about the IDEA Convention, the fitness business and how Vertex Fitness could relate what we do with the type of research he was doing. We talked about many thing; how to go about funding a study, what groups are out there that are doing funding, why they were funding these studies to getting the results published and how that helps everyone involved. It was a very interesting and informative conversation. I spent the whole week at the conference learning about the fitness business, all while this conversation I had on the plane kept replaying in my head. So, one of the first thing I did when I got home from the IDEA convention was talked with Vertex Fitness client Dr Paul Gilman, Medical Director at Lankenau Cancer Center. Dr. Gilman had been a client at Vertex Fitness for some time and he had seen great results. He had come to us with some low back and hip joint pain and through weeks and months of training with us the pain has slowly subsided. He and I sat down and talked about the idea of working together and producing a study that could help his patients. We talked about many things, but soon came back to the way the workouts were helping him, his joint pain had subsided and his low back was feeling a lot better. He told me how one of the drugs that is commonly prescribed to breast cancer patients causes a lot of joint pain. He also told me that because of this side effect many patients elect to go off the drug. Unfortunately, going off the drug is not recommended because it has be shown to keep these women in reemission after a bout with breast cancer. So we decided to see if doing the type of exercise we do at Vertex Fitness could help elevate some of the joint pain associated with taking these drugs. If it could help with the join pain, we think women will stay on the drugs longer, stay in reemission longer and have better quality in their life.
That is how this started. The following article was published in the October 2010 issue of Main Line Today Magazine. It talks abut the results of the pilot study and where we might go from here.
Thank you to Dr. Paul Gilman, Oncologist at Lankenau Hospital, Dr. Jessica Katz, Fellow at Lankenau Hospital, all of the patients that were willing to go through this study and Main LIne Today Magazine for publishing this article
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About the author
Dwayne Wimmer founded Vertex Fitness Personal Training Studio in 2001, excited to bring a new concept about personal training to the people of Philadelphia’s Main Line in Pennsylvania. Driven by knowledge and results both, while a strength coach at Villanova University, he worked closely with world class athletes such as Brian Westbrook, formerly of the Philadelphia Eagles, on strength training and conditioning for optimal performance. Dwayne’s client base extends much further than world class athletes. Along with athletes, he works with adolescents to seniors, and he’s a highly acclaimed and sought out personal trainer who has received numerous awards, such as Best of the Main Line Personal Training Studio and Best Main Line Personal Trainer. A graduate of Missouri Western State University, Dwayne has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education, with an emphasis in Coaching. Aside from personal training, he’s spent time as a physical education teacher, strength and conditioning coach, and a football coach, but has found his passion and home in the fitness industry, inspiring and reaching out to others. As a strong believer in continuing to learn, Dwayne has also taken classes at East Stroudsburg University toward a Masters Degree in Sports Management. He can add author to his list of accomplishments, having created a chapter in the upcoming book The Soul of Success with Jack Canfield, renowned for the Chicken Soup series. To get to the point where he is now, Dwayne has always been thankful for the support of his father, a man who always believed in his mission and saw the need for what it was that Dwayne envisioned. During his free time, Dwayne is an avid motorcyclist who enjoys viewing the amazing landscapes and finding good restaurants to enjoy that are off the beaten path. He also takes advantage of opportunities to travel and experience many other cities while attending fitness seminars and giving presentations about the industry he is so passionate about. As a way to give back to the community that has been a part of his entire life, Dwayne has created Vertex Fitness PUMPED (People United Making Progress through Education and Donations), which provides support to area non-profits through a community-wide outreach effort. At this time, they help three non-profits per year in the Philadelphia area. For more information from Dwayne, you may contact him at (610) 525-6604, dwayne@vertexfit.com