Role of compression therapy in lipedema
Isabel Forner-Cordero, MD, PhD, Associate Professor Lymphedema Unit, Rehabilitation Department, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain Juan Vazquez-Diez, MD Lymphedema Unit, Rehabilitation Department, Hospital General Universitari de Castelló, Castellón de La Plana, Spain ABSTRACT Lipedema is a very frequent chronic disease, frequently underdiagnosed and misdiagnosed and whose pathophysiology is still under research. Patients, most of them women, present with evident disproportion in the distribution of fat between the upper and lower part of the body, swelling, easy bruising, and pain in the lower limbs, and sometimes in the upper limbs. The major aims of its…
