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LymphologyTherapy centre: lymphology  In the lymphological therapy we offer our patients suffering from primary or secondary lymphedema a wide variety of professional therapeutic services. The intensive lymphological treatment aims at improving the quality of life and to enhance the performance of the patients in order to enable them to cope better with the strains of everyday life.
Principally all patients suffering from a lymphedema or from a combined edema (phlebolymphedema, lipolymphedema). Our therapies include
Up to now no efficient pharmaceutical or surgical treatment exists for lymphedema. The choice of the adequate therapy requires therefore much experience in diagnosis and treatment. Specific therapeutic measures aiming at the removal of congestions are the best way to relieve pain and to prevent a deterioration or a chronification. During a rehabilitation stay the patients find the best conditions for an intensive treatment: the lymphedema regresses and the vulnerability to infections diminishes. The therapy has the following concrete effects:
The evaluation of the treatment results is carried out by means of a plethysmografic volume measuring or of a perometer. The therapy successes are moreover documented by photos. Therapy concept Our therapy concept is based on a long time practical experience as well as on the expertise of our physicians in charge. Beside the classic elements of the decongestion therapy our patients can make use of numerous additional offers, such as little hikes, our indoor swimming pool and group gymnastics. Fix components:
Additional offers:
Within the holistic assistance psychologists, physiotherapists and nutritional consultants are at your disposal for a competent interdisciplinary treatment adapted to your needs.
It is important for us, that you are well-informed and well-trained when you go home after the rehabilitation. At the end of the therapy we provide made-to-measure compress stockings and training to all patients as to the adequate handling of the compress stockings. The confident and close cooperation with an experienced shop for medical equipment has guaranteed for many years the best equipment of our patients at the release from the clinic.
More useful information on lymphoses: The major function of the lymphatic vascular system is the evacuation of protein particles lingering between the cells of the human tissue. Several times a day the whole tissue liquid is transported through the lymphatic vascular system, filtered in the lymph nodes and controlled by immunological defence system.
The lack of a lymphatic vessel (primary lymphedema) as well as an interruption of lymphatic vessels (secondary lymphedema) due to an injury or an operation are the most frequent causes of disorders of the lymphatic flux, which in turn provoke a congestion of the fluid rich in proteins in the tissue. Secondary lymphedema are considerably more frequent than primary lymphedema. On our region they occur essentially after operations or radiation therapies treating cancers (for example secondary lymphedema in the arm). The lymphedema is a particular chronic disease pattern of the skin, of the subcutaneous tissue and sometimes of the internal organs. If a lymphedema is not treated the tissue alterations progress threatening to eventually cause invalidity. All parts of the body can be affected; however, the limbs are most frequently concerned.
The protein abundance in the retained tissue fluid leads in the long term to the characteristic tissue alterations, which are unique compared to other edema. First it is a soft swelling leaving hollows, which gives way to an increasing tissue hardening. In the third stage complications occur, such as highly feverish skin infections, which in turn cause an aggravation of the lymphedema.
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