Women who undergo surgery for breast cancer may end up with lymphedema, a painful, visible swelling, usually of the arm. Coming to their aid, Lymphedema lays out the many options for preventing and treating the condition. The book provides information on reducing lymphedema through professional therapy as well as exercise and self-massage, plus helpful illustrations and additional resources. It also tells encouraging stories of women who have dealt with lymphedema successfully. With updates throughout on the latest research, products, and techniques, this new edition features expanded nutrition and exercise sections and covers naturopathy, acupuncture, and Chinese herbal medicine, as well as potential future therapies being tested.
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Book Helps Person in Small Town
Review Date: May 27, 2000
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I have had lymphedema for several years. I live outside a very small town which does not have a person who knows how to treat lymphedema. I found this book on Amazon.com and it gave me information that helped find a therpist in another city.
I must travel nearly two hundred miles to reach my therapist, but with her help and with the information in this book, the swelling has gone down and my arm is almost back to normal. In another couple of weeks I should not need to see the therapist any longer. Because of the detailed information in this book, and because of the therapist's instructions I know how to bandage my arm, what kind of sleeve to wear on it, exercises I should and should not do, even what kind of breathing helps my arm not swell.
I don't know what I would have done if this book had not been available. I wish it had been written years ago when my swelling began. I recommend it very highly.
Important, life-saving reading for women at risk.
Review Date: March 3, 2000
Reviewer: Midwest Book Review, Oregon, WI USA
Lymphedema: A Breast Cancer Patient's Guide To Prevention And Healing describes the many options women have. It emphasizes active self-help and provides extensive information on preventing lymphedema; reducing lymphedema through professional therapy; reducing lymphedema through exercise and self-massage; selecting and using wraps and compression garments; eating right to manage lymphedema; finding emotional support; and locating resources for additional help. Jeannie Burt (a former lymphedema sufferer) and Gwen White (a practicing physical therapist specializing in the treatment of women with lymphedema) have collaborated to write an informative, "reader friendly" text, enhanced with more than fifty illustrations and encouraging stories of women who have dealt with lymphedema successfully using the methods described. Lymphedema is highly recommended reading for anyone suffering from or at risk for breast cancer.
Finding Help
Review Date: November 11, 2000
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I found this book very informative and comforting. It not only tells about lymphedema, about why it starts and what can be done about it, but the book has the stories of other women with lymphedema and shows what they are doing for their condition. It helped make me aware that I am not the only person to have had problems after I was treated for breast cancer. Since my therapy for lymphedema I have used this book to maintain my arm's shape. I think the book is a wonderful guide. It was a real relief for me to find this book.
Book aids with treatment
Review Date: May 2, 2000
Reviewer: ,
I found this book incredibly helpful. After two years of having my arm so swollen it would not fit into many of my clothes, I found this book. It showed what exercises to do, how to do self-massage, how to bandage, and where to get help. It is complete with pictures that illustrate each step. I think this book is essential for anyone who's had treatment for breast cancer.
Great Stuff
Review Date: June 27, 2001
Reviewer: Moritmer Z, CA United States
My wife and I found lots of great help in this book. Detailed enough for our academic minds. Honest enough to be helpful in a difficult time. And staightforward enough to be understandable. We showed it to our therapist who liked it enough to include it in her list of resources for others with lymphedema. We highly recommend it.
My breast cancer treatment painful lesson
Since 2001, I was diagnosed with breast cancer right breast Future Home A 1.0-1.5cm, without Future Home but left uneven thickening of the structure. To prevent the transfer of cancer cells, the operation performed on both sides of axillary lymph node dissection. Postoperative chemotherapy, severe lymphedema of the upper limb, his left arm around his right arm in grass 2 cm long. Five years later, edema of the upper limb is not Jianhao. Whenever I see the chest with a disability, swelling arms as fertilizer Lotus roots, often tears.
The doctor told me that because of swelling in the complications dissection of lymph nodes, treatment is difficult. However, I continue to try different approaches to treatment, in addition to daily physical therapy and massage, I use Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine with bags of hot water, tied with elastic swelling gloves arm to play an active role in the treatment of lymphedema or hospital, but have little effect.
I hate cancer surgery cruel Mama makes my blood and transfusion are just feet, can carry more weight, even the pots Xijiao Shui-asked people to help you. Tongdingsitong with a wealth of information and visits to a number of experts, just know that if only a thickening of the left breast organizations, not only limit the scope of the operation, left axillary dissection may also consider the appropriate scope of the reduction or even cleaning may be waived.
This painful lesson and I warned the experience similar to the first patients should contact doctors. Doctors saved the lives of patients at the same time, one can also think of transposition, since in the future quality of life is more important. Cancer patients need a more humanistic counseling and psychological care.
Fortunately, thanks to medical technology, the international use of the technology of sentinel node biopsy, has been in China for clinical application, remove the metastasis of breast cancer with an expansion of the pain of surgery. I hope the number one increase in breast cancer and sisters who can not resist the experience.
May lead to the elimination of lymphatic edema Lymphocele?
I'm nervous / afraid of a medical procedure to come. I already had cancer very limited and lymphedema following surgery, and now I have a lymphocele in the groin, pressing on a nerve in the leg. I am a very active person, so This is freaking me out - I do not want more complications! Lymphedema is bad enough! Is there anyone out there is no information or experience?
Hi there, Tina Lymphland Am International Lymphedema Online (LILO). Since you have already lymphedema, you did not say if higher or lower, I'll assume that is lower. Nodes located in the inguinal region groin, and yes the withdrawal or surgery or trauma, such as lymphocele can cause lymphedema. The fact that you leads me to believe that you'll have some problems with it. Have you been treated for it so far and compression garments? I would say before undergoing surgery see a lymphedema therapist and get fluids in your body in motion before surgery and immediately after surgery, which can be difference in the value of lymphedema or not, depending on whether the node is damaged, traumatized or delete too. The inguinal lymph nodes are large in the body, one of the largest chains in the body. I know scary and I hate being a Doomsday but the reality is that the nodes are prone to problems there where the lymphocele May also blocks the fluid. It would be a good thing to join a support group to help you stay on top of lymphedema. My group meets at the joint http://www.lymphland.com button or you can go to yahoo groups and search for lymphland. I have special training for doctors therapist and lymphedema in my group. We share a lot of ideas and we talk. Our ultimate desire that had been there to go to a mere 2 weeks with lymphedema doctor. Tina
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