The rehabilitation tailor: applying personalized medicine to cancer recovery

This journal recently published the launch of a personalized rehabilitation project called “the rehabilitation tailor” (1), at the National Cancer Institute of Aviano, Italy. The program is dedicated to women who have had breast cancer operations. The challenge was to exploit the most modern technologies and create a rehabilitation path that could be adapted to the patient’s needs and be carried out remotely, allowing her to be educated and supervised during her oncological recovery. Specifically, this innovative project provides the possibility of working on several rehabilitation aspects, i.e., pain control, physical exercise for strength and resistance (the Oncology in Motion project), and kinematics for reconstructing the movement impaired by surgery. In the continuation of the path, the Institute’s choice was to use co-production as a tool for involving the various stakeholders, to further improve and customize the shoulder analysis algorithm available at the Institute and the rehabilitation path “in toto” of these patients. Thanks are also due to the professional athletes who engaged and provided help.