Archive for the Other - Diseases Category

06.5.2010

How do you massage the swollen arm (lymphedema) to reduce its swelling?

peanuts64 asked: My mom recently had a mastectomy, and now she has lymphedema on her left arm. Massage always comes up as one of the ways to decrease the swelling of the arm. However, I haven’t found anything on how to massage the arm to prevent it from further swelling, or to reduce [...]