EXTRA! EXTRA! compression stockings now coverable by Medicare for lymphatic conditions!

For years US patients and healthcare providers have labored to treat chronic lower limb swelling without the benefit of proper, therapeutic compression stockings! And also without access to routine lymphatic drainage/massage as is provided in most European countries. Patients have paid hundreds of dollars out of pocket for inferior, ineffective OTC stockings from drugstores, clothing stores and the like and have become disheartened, believing compression doesn't work. TED hose, and other stretchy nylon stockings were never designed to treat  resistant swelling due to lymphedema, venous edema and other serious medical concerns. No matter that the box says 20-30mmHg. How do you know your $20 Amazon stockings are 20-30mmHg like the $300 medical brand stockings? Are they lab or third party tested? And furthermore, do they truly provide gradient pressure or are they stiff enough to provide push back against the muscles for improved venous pump during walking? Probably not. I have samples of durable medical compression garments so you can touch and feel the difference! 

Don't give up on compression garments and allow yourself to be prescribed a medication or surgery that is not appropriate for your condition (medication and surgery is appropriate for certain types of swelling). And don't resign yourself to spending hours each week at the wound clinic getting wrapped in hot, uncomfortable and also ineffective UNNA boots! A better option is now available. 

I can guide you and your provider in the key assessment findings of  lower limb swelling that can lead to proper diagnoses, and treatment of lymphedema with INSURANCE COVERED medical devices.