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Who can be helped?
Indications listed in our manual as allowed by the FDA include:
| Poor arterial flow in the leg associated with: | |
 | Ischemic ulcers |
| Rest pain or claudication (pain with walking) |
| Threatened gangrene |
| Insufficient blood supply at an amputation site |
| Persisting ischemia after embolectomy or bypass surgery |
| Pre and Post-arterial reconstruction to improve runoff |
| Diabetes complicated by the above or other conditions possibly related to arterial insufficiency: | |
| Nocturnal leg cramps |
| Necrobiosis diabeticorum |
| Venous diseases (once risk of emboli minimized): | |
| Prophylaxis of deep vein thrombophlebitis |
| Edema and induration associated with chronic venous stasis |
| Venous stasis ulcers |
| Lymphedema: | |
| Recent (therapy is most effectively initiated before secondary fibrosis has become established) |
| Chronic |
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