Self-care for lower-limb lymphedema in LMIC

Lymphedema self-care for people affected by NTDs. This course is still under development so please check back later for updates.

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Course curriculum

1. About this course
2. Beta-tester statement
3. Course aims and objectives
4. Disclaimer
1. Current recommendations and what's missing
2. Current self-care recommendations and what's missing
3. How they work, a basic lymphology lesson
1. Meticulous skin care
1. Exercise
2. Elevation
1. Deep abdominal breathing
2. Teaching 'belly' breathing
1. The connective tissue bath and thixotrophy
2. Structure and function of loose connective tissue
3. Connective tissue quiz
4. Oedema formation and classifications
5. Skin and tissue mobilisation
6. Lymphatic massage
1. Publications
2. Systematic review on lymphoedema self-care
3. Enhanced self-care protocol
4. Results on the Bangladesh enhanced-care study
5. Results on the Ethiopia enhanced self-care study
1. Conference presentations
2. Presentation on enhanced lymphedema self-care, ALA virtual meeting May 2020
3. Presentation to NTD Programme Managers Meeting in Western Pacific Region on September 2, 2020
4. Presentation to the NNN in the rapid fire session on September 9, 2020
5. Poster presentation at ASTMH on November 16, 2020
1. Summary
2. Quiz for CPE

About this course

Free
30 lessons
1.5 hours of video content

Disclaimer

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