Diagnostics and territorial experience

Lymph-oedema is a chronic disease, not easily controllable with evolutive, progressive tendency. Since 2001 in the angiological outpatients’surgery inside of Operative Unit of Territorial Rehabilitation, in the ambit of patients affected by lymph-oedema, also the rehabilitative projects of geriatric patients affected by secondary post-surgery lower and upper limb lymphoedema, contained the therapheutical programs, have been opening by angiologist and physiotherapist, in charge of the patient, together: in the older patients oncological lymph-oedema is more common than benign lymph-oedema tardum and furthermore, in the elderly most accompanying disease aggravate this pathology. Lymph-oedema requires careful patient monitoring that consists of: 1. the first evaluation performed in the ambit of a multidisciplinary and multi-professional team that leads to the compilation of a specific clinical report and a rehabilitative project which personalized therapeutical programs, adequate to the treatment of disabilities according to the evolution stage. The clinical report, point of reference in the next check-up, includes: