IPC use in lymphedema should be consistent with
Physiological considerations of
• Initial Central Clearance
• Subsequent Progressive Propulsion
Using Compression Pressures and Patterns that
during compression minimally inhibit
• lymph capillary uptake
• lymphatic intrinsic active pumping
• lymph – venous uptake and drainage
And facilitate lymph vessel and tissue lymph flow via
• Impulse – like progressive compression
• arterial-lymphatic interactions that tend to
occur at lower compression pressures