Bahareh
Abbasi, Navid Mirzakhany, Leila Angooti Oshnari, Ashkan Irani, Samaneh Hosseinzadeh,
Seyed Mehdi Tabatabaei, Shahpar Haghighat
This
study aimed to assess the effects of relaxation techniques on the level of edema,
anxiety and depression in women undergoing Comprehensive Decongestive Therapy
(CDT). It concluded that relaxation
techniques reduced the anxiety and depression scores and the volume of edema in
the patients with lymphedema. Further studies are required to determine the cost-effectiveness of this intervention.
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