1. We speculate that the technique LPG ® finds its action at the cutaneous level on the vascularisation and the physiological drainage of the skin.
2.Lympho-scintigraphy investigations of normal subjects showed that the appropriate and skill-full use of the technique LPG® potentially improves the physiological lymphatic drainage.
3. 1. The technique LPG ® can potentially improve the lymphatic drainage.
Indeed, fibrous masses in the connective tissue in response to ageing, trauma, or a non-drained interstitial oedema can be freed through the technique LPG ®.
The use of the technique LPG® as an adjunct to the manual lymphatic drainage is illustrated opposite.
4. The patients s/p mastectomy can show intra- and extra-fascicular fat accumulation, which could explain the difficulties encountered in the traditional physical therapy treatment (lymphatic manual drainage, presso-therapy, and bandaging).
The post-surgical oedema and fibrosis that remain despite the use of manual lymphatic drainage, presso-therapy, and bandaging (strapping) could be taken over by the technique LPG ®.
Opposite, you will find scientific support to combining manual lymphatic drainage and the technique LPG® in cases of post-surgical edema and fibrosis.
Hence, in the cases of fibro-fatty aggregation we support combining the LPG ® and the conventional approach of treating lymph-edema.
Furthermore, the technique LPG® can be valuable in the treatment of the common cellulite (orange skin), which consists of the cutaneous association of edema, fibrosis, and sclerosis.
5. On going research:
The potential effect of the technique LPG® on residual oedema originally treated with manual lymphatic drainage, presso-therapy, and multi-layer bandaging: a MRI and echography analysis (Due in December 2002).
Realisation : Dr E. Fumière, Dr O. Leduc PhD, Prof Dr A. Leduc PhD, C. Piccoli, F. Wilputte, T. Crespin, A. Veys, E. Luypaert, C. Pauquet, M. Ezquer, JP. Belgrado, V. Schoonbroodt.