Effectiveness of Self-Physiotherapy in the Management of Lymphedema

CDP consists of patient education, manual lymph drainage, short traction bandaging, skin/nail care and exercise. The applications of all modalities of the CDP programme were performed by the physiotherapist.

The self-administered CDP programme consisted of patient education, self-manual lymph drainage, self-short traction bandage application, self-skin/nail care and exercise. Participants were given one session of patient education before the self-administered CDP programme and patients were given practical information about all applications. Additionally, each component of the self-administered CDP programme was presented to the participants with a patient booklet and a video prepared by the researchers. Patients in the self-CDP group were followed up once a week with a patient follow-up diary.