Improving the quality of life through effects of treatment with low intensity extremely low-frequency electrostatic field with deep oscillation® in patients with breast cancer with secondary lymphedema to patients treated with standard lymph equipment

Objective: To examine the damaged symptoms and functional disorders in women with secondary lymph>edema after breast cancer surgery in which to evaluate the therapeutic benefits of treatment with low intensity and extremely low frequency electrostatic fields reproduced by the - Deep Oscillation® with the program for a manual lymphatic drainage. Methods: Twenty-one patients, divided into two randomized groups. The first group of women consists of 11 women treated with 10 session’s lymphatic drainage with Deep Oscillation. And second control group included 10 women having undergone only standard lymphatic drainage. Subjective assessment includes pain and swelling; range of motion in the shoulder joint; movement of the neck and an analysis of the volume of the chest using a 3D system measuring. Results: At the beginning of therapy, patients had high scores for sensation of pain; swelling of the extremities; restricted movement in the shoulder joint; restriction in the movement of the spine in the neck portion. In the course of treatment the pain reduces its intensity, the volume of movement in the shoulder joint is returns, but in the study group, which is subjected to lymph drainage with low-frequency electrostatic fields of apparatus - Deep Oscillation® indicators are much better. Moreover, significantly pain reduces. Subjective reduce swelling in both groups was confirmed objectively by 3D measuring only in the treatment group. Conclusion: Manual lymph drainage with deep oscillation leads to a significant reduction in pain relief and reduce swelling in patients with lymphoedema average breast compared with standard mechanical lymphatic drainage.