[Job profile of lymph drainage therapist].
Besides psychological care of the patients and necessary secondary measures such as bandaging, stocking or other compression treatment, interval training during compression, positioning supports and breathing therapy, lymphatic drainage therapy is today an important constituent of postoperative treatment after breast amputation and total hysterectomy due to carcinoma. Repeated measurements of circumference ensure a certain control of the result of therapy.
D003020:Clothing; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D008196:Lymph; D008206:Lymphatic Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D011182:Postoperative Care
Das Berufsbild des Lymphdrainage-Therapeuten.