When it comes to clinical practice, what matters most to real-world MLD therapists simply isn’t what’s being measured in “Level I evidence”. To understand this disconnect we need to revisit what evidence based practice really means. Evidence based therapy is a synthesis of research evidence, clinical experience and observation, in the context of the desired outcomes of the recipient. Relying on Level 1 evidence alone is just not enough. Yet systematic reviews and meta-analy

An easy - and free - way for therapists to assess clinical progress is to use an analogue scale. Image by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on...

Randomised controlled trials are not suited to assessing the effectiveness of treatments for lymphoedema and other choric diseases.