Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) physicians, also known as physiatrists, treat a wide variety of medical conditions affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons.
Lymphatic drainage can be helpful in reducing this type of edema because the cause is a reduced functioning of the lymph system. Other causes of edema can be a chemical imbalance in the body caused by liver disease, diabetes, or a variety of other ailments.
1 Color-Normal wound drainage is clear or pale yellow in color; red or dark brown drainage signifies old or new bleeding. 2  Wounds that have a distinctive blue-green drainage present often have Pseudomonas. 3  Consistency-wound drainage consistency may be thin and watery or thick.