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Pneumatic Compression Therapy
What is Lymphedema? Pneumatic Compression Therapy Stanford Study

 

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What is Pneumatic Compression Therapy?
    An Aggressive, non-invasive, therapy of gradient, sequential compression
used for the treatment and management of lymphatic and venous disorders. The
therapy entails a physiologic milking action of the lymph-edematous limb(s).

References
    Christos J. Pappas, M.D., and Thomas F. O’Donnell, M.D.
Long-term Results of compression treatment for Lymphedema. Journal of
Vascular Surgery, 1992;16:555-64
   
 

 

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