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Yoga can help cancer survivors get active and improve their current and future health.
That’s the idea behind a new $500 mini-grant for the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at UT Health San Antonio to start a yoga therapy program for Support Lending for Emotional Well-Being (SLEW), a non-profit wellness center for women who have been diagnosed with cancer.
The grant, from the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the UT Health San Antonio, will allow the team to develop an “Exercise for Cancer Survivors” educational presentation and a yoga program/curriculum that will gradually introduce participants to yoga and be sustainable for SLEW to continuing using upon the grant’s end.
The project leader at the IHPR is Rose A. Treviño-Whitaker and the project mentor is Dr. Daniel Carlos Hughes. Student members are Susan Ogden, Delana Gonzales, Christina Carmona, and Ruth Morris.
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