Tag: advanced pneumatic compression devices
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New Year’s Resolutions for Lymphies
For us lymphies, the new year is a great time to look at our health habits—both physical and mental—and see what we need to work on, and what we can carry over with us into the new year.
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URGENT: Medicare to significantly REDUCE treatment options for patients with lymphedema. Here’s how you can take action and fight back!
“By depriving patients with lymphedema access to a proven, effective therapeutic option, these individuals and their families will likely suffer.”
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“The most costly thing is doing nothing”: An interview with Dr. Alan T. Hirsch, M.D.
A conversation with Dr. Hirsch is the Director of the Vascular Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota Medical School and co-author of a recent study on the benefits of advanced pneumatic compression devices.
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New study shows benefits of compression pumps for lymphedema patients
Titled “The Cutaneous, Net Clinical, and Economic Benefits of Advanced Pneumatic Compression Devices in Patients with Lymphedema,” this national study shared important research regarding the benefits of using an advanced pneumatic compression device on not only the treatment of lymphedema but the overall cost of care as well.