Arm Exercises May Cut Swelling in Breast Cancer Survivors
Posted in Lymph Drainage on 02/22/2010 06:14 am by AMMA
An article published by Reuters verifies what we lymph drainage specialists have suspected all along, stating:
After a year, women who did a twice weekly workout while wearing a compression garment had less arm pain and swelling, a condition known as lymphedema.
“Weight lifting reduced the number and severity of arm and hand symptoms, increased muscular strength and reduced the incidence of lymphedema,” a team at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Read more at http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE57B5RE20090812.