With the increasing knowledge in this arena, complete decongestive physical therapy was firstly developed in Europe and was introduced later to the States for patients with lymphedema.

• 随著对淋巴系统的解剖构造以及生理病理学的瞭解逐渐增加，完整之减肿胀物理治疗法是一套最早在欧洲被提出来治疗淋巴水肿病人的方法，现今除了欧洲之外亦被广泛用于美国。