If you asked me what Lipedema was before the spring of 2015, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you much about it. I wouldn’t have been able to tell you that it was the reason unexplained bruises showed up on my shins, calves, thighs, hips, butt and sometimes my upper arms…Read...
Lymphedema and lipedema: What every wound care clinician should knowHettrick, HeatherWound Care Advisor
Her assistant was writing down the words, the numbers and measurements as Dr. Herbst gently touched my leg. “You do have Dercums, but you also have lipedema and lipolymphedema.” She sat there and told me what it all meant, but I didn’t hear a word. I just kept going over it...
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is the time to put lipedema `on the agenda' so that patients no longer suffer this disease in silence," said Rebecca Morris, NLA's founding president.Also on the Board and a member of the Founding Circle is Kathryn Thrift, a founding board member and Past President of NAVALT, a Dr. ...
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Her assistant was writing down the words, the numbers and measurements as Dr. Herbst gently touched my leg. “You do have Dercums, but you also have lipedema and lipolymphedema.” She sat there and told me what it all meant, but I didn’t hear a word. I just kept going over it...
is the time to put lipedema `on the agenda' so that patients no longer suffer this disease in silence," said Rebecca Morris, NLA's founding president.Also on the Board and a member of the Founding Circle is Kathryn Thrift, a founding board member and Past President of NAVALT, a Dr. ...
Lymphedema and lipedema: What every wound care clinician should know* Stage 1: Skin appearsflat with an enlargedsubcutis (connectivetissue layer beneath thedermis). On palpation, itmay feel like styrofoamballs in a plastic bag.By Heather Hettrick...