Manual lymphatic drainage therapy in patients with breast cancer related lymphoedema
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...Lymphedema, a major complication of breast cancer and its treatment, can cause long-term physical and mental health consequences in patients [5]....
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...The specific contribution of MLD to controlling lymphedema is as yet unproven, and there is no evidence of the permanence of the effect of MLD.(16,24) The relationship between the blood and lymphatic systems(25)...
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...The best option is to reduce the edema, increase functionality, and decrease discomfort.23 The specific contribution of MLD to controlling lymphedema is as yet unproven, and there is no evidence of the permanence of the effect of MLD.16,24 The relationship between the blood and lymphatic systems25 allows the assessment of the circulatory effect of therapeutic treatment for evaluating the blood flow velocity, enabling even notice the duration, as the purpose of this study....
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...Lymphedema treatment with the named complex physical therapy, which involves MLD and compression bandaging, is controversial because interpretation of the results is limited by the different methodologies used, which does not allow the evaluation of the isolated contribution of MLD to circulatory flow and therefore to the control of edema.(15,16)...
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...Problems associated with lymphoedema include: pain, altered sensations such as discomfort and heaviness, difficulties with physical mobility, physiological distress, recurrent infections and social isolation [3,4]....
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...In a study in which 744 patients with breast cancer were assessed with these quality of life scales, some imbalances regarding the quality of life in those patients with lymphoedema were found [ 8 ]....
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...On the other hand, the fact that CPT implies several techniques (manual lymph drainage, skin care and multilayer compression bandaging followed by a compression garment to reduce oedema and therapeutic exercises) makes it difficult to recognize which of them is the truly effective one in the treatment of lymphoedema [ 12-14 ]....
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