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 Radiation treatment for cancer. 2  Radiation can cause scarring and inflammation of your lymph nodes or lymph vessels. 3  Cancer. 4  If cancer cells block lymphatic vessels, lymphedema may result. 5  For instance, a tumor growing near a lymph node or lymph vessel could enlarge enough to block the flow of the lymph fluid.