The Effect of Manual Lymphatic Drainage

Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Status: Completed

Conditions: Venous Leg Ulcer; Lymphatic Disease; Venous Insufficiency

Treatments: Other: Skin Care; Other: Shame Manual Lymphatic drainage; Other: Manual Lymphatic drainage (MLD); Other: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04461132

09.2017.209

Details and patient eligibility

About

In venous ulcer, venous insufficiency is accompanied by lymphatic insufficiency. Manual lymphatic drainage (mld) technique cause to increase contraction rate of lymphatic collector and venous flow. It is known that Manual lymphatic drainage accelerates microcirculation, enabling nutrients and oxygen to reach tissues and at the same time removing residual substances from the tissue. We hypothesis that if we inrease to lypmhatic activity with MLD, we could stimulate healing of ulcer. The aim of this study to investigate the effect of manual lymphatic drainage on venous ulcer healing.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• with venous ulcer unhealing for at least 6 weeks
• Without enfection
• vascular surgery is not indicated
• There is no obstruction to apply MLD and compression to lower extremty

Exclusion criteria

• with diabetic mellutus
• with enfection
• with ABI<0,7
• Patients who have undergone venous vascular surgery
• Patients undergoing active wound closure treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

Manual Lymphatic Drainage Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

All patients were treated 3 times a week for 4 weeks. The treatment program of these patients included manual lymphatic drainage on the leg, skin care, bandaging and exercise.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise

Other: Manual Lymphatic drainage (MLD)

Other: Skin Care

Shame Manual Lymphatic Drainage Group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

All patients were treated 3 times a week for 4 weeks. The treatment program of these patients included shame manual lymphatic drainage on the leg, skin care, bandaging and exercise. Shame manual lymphatic drainage include light touches instead of real manual lymphatic drainage techniques

Treatment:

Other: Exercise

Other: Skin Care

Other: Shame Manual Lymphatic drainage