Rehabilitation of cancer patients: the use of pneumatic compression in secondary lymphedema treatment

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Complex decongestive therapy is a cornerstone of conservative chronic lymphedema treatment. There are other conservative treatment options that include intermittent pneumatic compression. Its mechanism of action is based on pressure applying on the underlying tissues and promoting the lymph flow through the lymphatic structures. Pneumatic compression was invented in 1972; nevertheless it has not found widespread support of professional community as a self-sufficient method of conservative lymphedema treatment, though it’s used a lot in many rehab clinics worldwide.

Aim. To determine the indications and effectiveness of pneumatic compression, as well as to identify the possibility of using this method in the practice of treating lymphatic edema.

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V. Yu. Ivashkov

Center of the National Technology Initiative “Bionic Engineering in Medicine”, Samara State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia

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ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3872-7478

89 Chapaevskaya St., Samara 443099

Russian Federation

A. V. Rovnaya

Pavlov University, Ministry of Health of Russia

10a Rentgena St., Saint Petersburg 197022

Russian Federation

A. S. Denisenko

Sechenov University, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: allexander.pafem@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6791-2237

Alexander Sergeevich Denisenko

Bld. 2, 8 Trubetskaya St., Moscow 119991

Russian Federation

A. V. Kolsanov

Samara State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4144-7090

89 Chapaevskaya St., Samara 443099

Russian Federation

A. N. Nikolaenko

Center of the National Technology Initiative “Bionic Engineering in Medicine”, Samara State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia

ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3411-4172

89 Chapaevskaya St., Samara 443099

Russian Federation

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