Effects of complex physical therapy and its influence on functional independence andquality of life of lymphedema sufferers in lower members residing inendemic area of lymphatic filariasis

Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães/ FIOCRUZ0 个研究点开始时间: 2015年10月27日最近更新: 2023年5月29日

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•Residents in an endemic area of filariasis; of both sexes; age from 18 to 75 years old; who had lymphedema located in the leg, below the knee, unilaterally or bilaterally, ranked from stage II to stage V, according to Dreyer.

•Will be excluded from the study patients with lymphedema above the knee (thigh), patients who are doing another treatment to reduce lymphedema, except patients on use of topical antifungal drugs and prophylactic antibiotics for secondary infections; have performed physical therapy for lymphedema in the three months prior to inclusion in the study; introduce infectious processes active and untreated during the project; present thrombophlebitis; have contraindications for manual lymphatic drainage (active neoplasms at the site of drainage, cellulitis, deep vein thrombosis in the acute phase, cardiac insufficiencies, liver and kidney desconpensada and uncontrolled hypertension); have contraindications for compressive bandaging (significant artery diseases in the lower limbs and neoplastic degeneration of lymphedema); present conditions that may compromise the sensitivity and also the functioning of the muscular system.

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Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães/ FIOCRUZ