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Nadia Walton

Aug 3, 2026

6:26
What do you think are some of the challenges clinicians face when assessing lymphedema, just even from a practical point of view, with techniques with people with larger bodies?
6:37
Yeah, I think there's a dignity element that, again, it's about this building the relationship.
6:42
But say for legs, we often want someone to strip down and then we poke and we prod and we look.
6:48
And we do that all day, every day.
6:50
So we've become very quick at kind of we feel like that's normal, but for the patient that can be very confronting.
6:57
So often just slowing down, having the conversation, putting the towel over the top that very quickly often gets whipped off, but actually giving them that sense that this is a bit special and, you know, we're going to be kind of invading your space and we're going to be poking and prodding things that maybe you don't feel good about.
7:15
The other thing is obviously the therapist manual handling.

6 MINS LATER

13:27
When you think about all the treatment side of things, so we're looking at obviously compression, skincare, exercise, et cetera, what are some practical and realistic strategies clinicians can use to tailor it?

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