Lymphedema-new treatments?

CDT is still the gold standard of treatment (manual lymph drainage, compression pump, multilayer bandaging followed by fitting for compression garments).

Dr. Stanley Rockson of Stanford is completing some interesting research regarding the use of gene therapy to code for more efficient lymphatic vessles.
I beleive this may still be in the animal testing stage. It looks very promising.

Flexitouch has come up with a new pump for home use that simulates MLD...with a preparatoy and resabsoprtion phase that is significantly different than most standard multichamber comrpession pumps.

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