Tài liệu Báo cáo y học: "Godoy & Godoy technique in the treatment of lymphedema for under-privileged populati

The treatment of lymphedema continues to be a worldwide challenge for modern medicine due to the characteristics of the disease. Lymphedema generally affects poor populations, there is no cure and there are few therapeutic prospects involving the private sector. This situation is aggravated in less developed countries where a lack of government resources and of specialized health workers has led to the margina-lization of the disease. Thus there is an urgent need to develop alternative, low cost therapies that are efficacious, provide a certain amount of independence for the patient in respect to treatment and that present easy-to-maintain
results. With the objective of developing new options for poor populations, Godoy & Godoy started to develop and evaluate new therapeutic alternatives for the treatment of lymphedema.