CompletedNo phase
Spa Therapy for Upper or Lower Limb Lymphoedema
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Association Francaise pour la Recherche Thermale
- Where
- France13 sites in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Completed
- People taking part
- 160 people enrolled
- Started
- 20 Jun 2019
- Ended
- 29 Oct 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Immediate spa treatment
- Late spa treatment
- Record updated
- 6 November 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women only
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- 18 years old and older
- available for a spa treatment (phlebology indication) during 18 days and a follow up period of 15 months
- with permanent lymphoedema of the upper or lower limb (2 ou 3 stade of International Society for Lymphology scale)
- voluntary to participate to the study, informed consent form signed after appropriate information
- affiliation to the social security system or equivalent
Who cannot take part
- no previous spa treatment for upper limb lymphoedema during the spa year
- cancer undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment in primary phase
- contra-indication of spa treatment (cancer in progress, psychiatrics disorders, immunodeficiency)
- the baseline score of LMS27 or LYMQOL-LEG > 79
- pain of upper limb linked with a radical plexitis
- Erysipelas case history in the last 6 months or pachyderma and lymphangiectasia
- risk of intensive treatment in the next 6 months
- subject participating to an other clinical study interventional
- pregnancy, parturient or breast feeding
This trial has no sites in United States.
It has sites in one country. Choose a country to see its sites.
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
THERMOEDEME is a comparative, controlled, randomized, multicenter and simple blinded (investigator) trial.
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The aim of this study is to evaluate effects of spa therapy in phlebology with a therapeutic education program in daily life of patients suffering lymphoedema.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Immediate spa treatmentExisting treatment, for comparison
Spa treatment linked with education therapeutic during 18 days just after randomization : common to all of spa resorts
- Late spa treatmentSham treatment, for comparison
Spa treatment linked with education therapeutic during 18 days 6 months visit after randomization
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Spa Therapy for Upper or Lower Limb Lymphoedema : a Randomized and Comparative Study
- Record updated
- 6 November 2026