Risks and contraindications of medical compression treatment - A critical reappraisal. An international consensus statement.

56 An evaluation of the impact of locally applied manual lymphatic drainage on patients with NYHA III and IV-grade cardiac insufficiency concluded that, despite a highly significant reduction in the circumference of the treated extremities, there were no significant changes in haemodynamic parameters other than heart rate, and that using locally applied manual lymphatic drainage in the legs as a decongestive therapy in patients with NYHA III and IV-grade cardiac insufficiency

also in 132,142 other papers