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Why are inelastic bandages more effective than elastic bandages when trating patients with lymphoedema?

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Why are inelastic bandages more effective than elastic bandages when trating patients with lymphoedema?

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Because short stretch bandages do not yield to muscle expansion they are effective at treating lymphoedema. They can easily be reapplied following reduction in limb size. “The elastic compression bandages were comfortable but too elastic to control or reduce the oedema” Ref: Richards,Y (1998); SSB for Lymphoedema, NT, April; Vol.94; No.

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Because short stretch bandages do not yield to muscle expansion they are effective at treating lymphoedema. They can easily be reapplied following reduction in limb size.