Does Chest Physical Therapy (CPT) cause Lung Cancer to Spread?
I am a staff therapist in an acute care hospital. When I started my current job here 7 yrs ago, my fellow therapists told me that we do not do CPT (Chest physical therapy includes postural drainage, chest percussion, chest vibration, turning, deep breathing exercises, and coughing) on patients with active lung CA as it can cause it to spread. Is there any validity to this? I had never heard this before. We had very specific criteria for CPT at my last facility and lung CA was not mentioned. Thank you in advance for your response. Deb RRT A. Dear Deborah, Chest PT does not cause lung cancer to spread. I wonder where this wrong information got started.
