Lymphatic Pump - Clinical Significance

Clinical Significance

AIDS Lymphatic treatments continue to be an important component of osteopathic manipulative medicine. Miller developed the lymphatic pump in 1926, stating that it is "an exaggeration of the movements of respiration." The lymphatic pump technique is used to treat patients with edema and infections because increasing lymphatic flow improves the filtering and removal of fluid, inflammatory mediators, and waste products from interstitial space.
During the influenza pandemic of 1917, Smith reported that osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) decreased the mortality rate from 5% to 0.25% among 100,000 patients.