A New Model of Patient Monitoring System for Lymphatic Treatment of Leg Pain based on Double-Loop Feedback Theory

Fauziah Abdul Wahid,Siti Aishah Muhammed Suzuki,Norita Md Norwawi

doi:10.33102/mjosht.v5i1.133

Abstract

Leg pain occurs in many people nowadays due to today's lifestyle. This leads to the development of various treatments for leg pain. However, there are some issues regarding the existing leg pain treatments. The first issue is the treatment method where most treatments for leg pain use compression but they are costly, time-consuming and cumbersome, which require patients to visit hospitals regularly that affect patient's compliance to continue with treatments. The second issue is the treatment time frame for leg pain is within a short time frame, whereby it is difficult to see the major effect of a certain treatment. The third issue is the lack of a system to monitor the patient's rehabilitation progress to increase patients' confidence to continue treatment consistently to cure their leg pain. Therefore, this research is conducted to cover all issues of existing research under the main area of health informatics. This research will be conducted in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan where 30 respondents with leg pain problems will be chosen as samples of this research and treatment will be conducted for 6 months. The treatment method is by using fingertips massage with oral and topical medication, where oral medication is disregard herb-based pills and topical medication is cinnamon cream. This system is needed to help patients to resolve their leg pain through the lymphatic treatment model. This lymphatic treatment model for leg pain resolution will be a useful guide for all patients with leg pain and also the caretaker of that patient. It requires a low cost and especially beneficial to lower to the middle-class community. This research is significant for the national agenda as it falls under the national research priority area of Health and Medicine. The expected outcome of this research is a new concept of the systematic patient monitoring system for lymphatic treatment of leg pain based on double-loop feedback theory.

Highlights

The lymphatic system consists of a network of lymph vessels and organs and specialized cells throughout the body
There are many causes for leg pain but the main focus is related to lymphatic system treatment
It can be assumed that TR is a viable method of providing a home-based self-management program on lower limb chronic swelling/lymphedema in people with mobility limitations and can decrease the burden associated with lifelong management of this debilitating condition

Summary

INTRODUCTION

The lymphatic system consists of a network of lymph vessels and organs and specialized cells throughout the body. There are various research studies on the treatment of leg pain involving the lymphatic system. All these treatments involve cost and the need to go to the clinic or hospital to be treated. [5] developed a telerehabilitation self-management program for persons with chronic lower limb swelling and mobility limitations. The evidence-based educational materials developed as part of the self-management program for lower limb chronic swelling/lymphedema in persons with limited mobility were found to be valid, accurate, and complete with high ratings of clarity. It can be assumed that TR is a viable method of providing a home-based self-management program on lower limb chronic swelling/lymphedema in people with mobility limitations and can decrease the burden associated with lifelong management of this debilitating condition. Even though there are a large number of health information websites exist today, they do not seem to be effective for users' healthcare needs and health promotion, because of the limitations of webbased information and due to a lack of customized healthcare services

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