Geriatrics lymphedema: priority in therapeutic choices
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Geriatrics lymphedema: priority in therapeutic choices
1) able patients, who could do daily proper exercise (Group1). 2) less able who could perform average physical exercise (Group2). 3) bedridden patients (Group3). In all patients limb circumferences were detected at the beginning after 10 sessions of treatment. Treatment included: manual lymph drainage, bandaging, ultrasound and physical exercises. The bandage was packaged: multilayer anelastic ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Geriatrics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1471-2318
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-10-s1-a104