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Is physiotherapy an effective treatment for lymphoedema secondary to cancer treatment?
Author(s) -
Johnston Renea V,
Anderson Jeremy N,
Walker Barbara L
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05170.x
Subject(s) - officer , citation , medicine , library science , gerontology , family medicine , psychology , political science , law , computer science
The search term “lymph(o)edema” was combined with the general treatment search terms “physical therapy”, “physiotherapy”, “conservative treatment”, “non-invasive treatment” and the more specific treatment terms “complex physical therapy”, “compression sleeve/bandaging/garment”, “manual lymphatic drainage”, “mechanical compression” to identify all English-language controlled trials, meta-analyses and systematic reviews published between January 1970 and August 2000. We electronically searched the Cochrane Library, Best Evidence, MEDLINE, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Library (CINAHL), Current