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From "Chip Bag" to a JoVi PAK Product

If you are a lymphedema therapist, you may know them as chip bags, muffs, Schneider Packs or JoVi PAK.

The concept is the same. Our thanks go to the genius of Bernd Schneider, lymphedema therapist for the Foeldi Clinic in Germany, who discovered in the mid 1980's that chipped foam under short-stretch bandages increases the efficacy of CDP (Complete Decongestive Physiotherapy) for the treatment of lymphedema. The varying degrees of pressure created by the foam chips soften fibrotic tissue while still allowing channels for the lymphatic fluid to seek new pathways.

 

Some history...

A member of our Seattle lymphedema support group, who had been successfully treated in Australia by a Casley-Smith therapist, introduced the "chip bag" to me in 1992. In 1993 I trained with the Drs. Judith Casley-Smith and her late husband, John, and brought back the technology to my own lymphedema patients. During this same year, Bernd Schneider was a guest therapist at Dr. Lerner's clinic in New York where he introduced his own "Schneider Packs" to Dr. Lerner's patients.

 

 

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