Tag: lymphoedema
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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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Lost in Translation: An American’s Story of Lymphedema Diagnosis and Treatment in Japan
Imagine you were just diagnosed with lymphedema, except you’re in a foreign country. In addition to your diagnosis and treatment, there are language barriers, cultural differences, and insurance coverage to navigate — all the while adjusting emotionally and psychologically to life with a chronic medical condition.
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Today: take time to pause and ask yourself this one question!
Last week a stranger asked me a thought-provoking question: “If you could define your life in one word, what would that word be?
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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.
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Lessons from a lunar eclipse
While reflecting on the symbology of eclipses, of the significance of things being revealed over time and of trusting in the things we cannot control, I was reminded of my experience with lymphedema.
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CASTING CALL: New Medical Documentary Looking for Participants
UK documentary company Barcroft Productions seeking lower-extremity lymphies for upcoming project.
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End-of-Summer Wrap Up
In the spirit of reflection, I thought it would be fun to look back on the most popular content from the summer on the Lymphie Life.
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Lymphie man uses humor and storytelling to share about life with lymphedema
The focus of the lymphedema narrative is often on female patients, but lymphie men are out there!