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Lymphedema: A Breast Cancer Patient's Guide to Prevention and Healing
by Jeannie Burt & Gwen White

About 25 percent of breast cancer surgery patients experience lymphedema - a disfiguring, painful swelling, most frequently of the arm. In the past, doctors suggested that little could be done for this condition. But that has changed, and the guide to good help is right here, in your hands.

This fully updated second edition describes the latest scientific and medical advances in treatment and care and includes expanded nutrition and exercise sections. The book also emphasizes active self-help and explains in detail how a woman can prevent lymphedema, reduce lymphedema with, exercise and self-massage, reduce lymphedema through professional therapy, talk with her doctors, select and use Kinesio Taping and compression garments, eat right and manage daily life with lymphedema, find emotional support, locate resources for additional help.

Complete with more than 50 illustrations, Lymphedema: A Breast Cancer Patient's Guide to Prevention and Healing includes the encouraging stories of women who are successfully managing their lymphedema and have regained control over their lives.

$14.95

Product Details:
ISBN: 089793458X
Format: Paperback, 245pp
Pub. Date: August 2005
Publisher: Hunter House, Incorporated
Edition Number: 2
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