Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, School of Medicine
Phase
Not applicable
Started
2024-11-13
Last updated
2025-01-20
Condition(s) studied
Lymphedema Arm
Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)
Comprehensive detumescence treatment with education videoComprehensive detumescence treatment
Comprehensive detumescence treatment with education video: Comprehensive detumescence treatment, including skin care, manual lymphatic drainage, low elastic bandaging and functional exercise four steps
Comprehensive detumescence treatment: Three to five times a week, one hour each time
Study summary
The goal of this clinical trials is to explore the effectiveness of home-based iymphedema treatment and the differences between the home-based and outpatient treatment. The main question is to verify that home-based treatment is as effective as outpatient treatment. We set two groups in this study, comparing the volume of affected upper limb to see if home-based iymphedema treatment is valuable method.
Eligibility
Sex
ALL
Min age
18 Years
Max age
75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Lymphedema appeared in the upper limb after breast cancer-related treatment, and compared with the healthy side, the edema dimension was more than 2cm.
2. Age 18-75 years old;
3. Edema stage Ⅰ to Ⅱ;
Exclusion Criteria:
1. People with severe cognitive impairment;
2. Bilateral lymphedema;
3. Patients undergoing radiotherapy；
4. Patients with uncontrolled tumors;
5. Congestive heart failure and other comprehensive detumescence treatment contraindicated patients.
Primary outcome measure(s)
the volum of affected arm — at the first day and after one month A soft ruler was used to measure the patient's wrist stripes and 10cm, 20cm, 30cm and 40cm above the wrist stripes, respectively, to obtain the circumference value. The five measurement points can divide the limb into four truncated cones, and then the formula can be used to calculate the volume of each limb segment, in which C1 and C2 are the arm circumference of the upper and lower two points of the measurement segment. h is the length of the measuring section, that is, 10 cm, and the whole limb volume is the sum of the volumes of each section.
Trial sites (1)
Facility
City
Region
Status
The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Hangzhou
Zhejiang
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