I had the very great privilege of traversing NSW to see how lymphoedema therapists assess lymphoedema, what they do with the objective results they get, and how they describe the subjective changes that they feel and observe. These clinicians were from various professions, settings (metropolitan and rural), and sectors (public and private). If you’d like to know more about how we are the same, and how we are different, there are two articles – one of these is based on observation1 and the other is based on interview2. Thank you to the generous therapists who contributed.
1 Sierla, R., Dylke, E., Shaw, T., Poon, S., Kilbreath, S. (2020). Clinician Assessment of Upper Limb Lymphedema: An Observational Study [In-press]. Lymphatic Research and Biology. https://doi.org/10.1089/lrb.2020.0005
2 Sierla, R., Dylke, E., Shaw, T., Poon, S., Kilbreath, S. (2020). Assessment of Upper Limb Lymphedema: A Qualitative Study Exploring Clinicians’ Clinical Reasoning [In-press]. Lymphatic Research and Biology, in press. https://doi.org/10.1089/lrb.2020.0006