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Lymphland International Lymphedema Online
| The mission of Lymphland is to make a positive difference in the lives of those affected with lymphedema and any other health conditions through a personal relationship with members assisting them in achieving their highest possible treatment potential and goals and help them become confident individuals. We provide caring and supportive through our committed volunteers. Our goal is to achieve adequate healthcare including therapy, educating doctors, and information of all kinds through our support group organization. We provide social interaction among members, teamwork in focusing on advocacy and awareness, and we allow each other to learn from eachchallenge and continue to improve on a daily basis. Our site is intended for anyone patients, therapists, doctors, public who wish to know more about lymphedema. OUR POLICIES We provide information of all nature concerning lymphedema on our site. I am not a doctor, just a very knowledgeable patient. Most of our information on lymphland is credited to other sources or links. We do have medical professionals such as Dr. Chikly, who submit information and that is credited to him. We credit all information with a source, any information you see that does not have a source or link was submitted to us by a member of our support group part of the website. If you know where it came from, please do let us know and we will credit to the correct source. Our website is geared to patients, therapists, doctors, caregivers, health professionals, and the public. Our goal and mission is to educate all, along with providing individual help to those in need. We respect the wishes of anyone who contributes to our website and we do ask permission to print information when a source is known and will remove information if a source does not want it listed on our site. ADVERTISING POLICY We do not allow blatant advertising on the site. We do allow some linking exchanges which those links are listed in our misc. links page. Our members who have websites that sell items are listed in members websites section of the site. We may post information regarding pumps, manufacturers, etc but we do not sell any materials nor do we allow companies to contact individuals within our support group. We respect the privacy of all individuals. Information on our website is meant to complement and not replace your doctors advice. Since many doctors are not knowledgeable about lymphedema, you may see information on my site that is different from what your doctor has told you. In the event that happens, please contact me for a list of lymphedema specialists that you can take to your doctor to get a referral to go see. We are advocating to medical schools and our legislatures to make lymphedema training mandatory curriculum for all medical professionals. PRIVACY POLICY Although our website does involve cookies in various parts such as the chatroom, no personal information is collected or used for any purposes. We respect the privacy of our visitors and take spamming and violations seriously. Our chatroom does require java cookies to function. No information concerning any visitors on our website is available to anyone but Tina and is not used for any purposes. -------------------------------------- This is a special credit page I would like to give credit to the people who made this page possible. First off to Dr. Chikly, who has a page devoted to him later on the site. Dr. Chikly gave me alot of resources and permission to use them. Another thank you to Dr. Ross Turchaninov, who gave permission to use parts of his Medical Massage book on the site. Thank you to Dr. Netter for images. Thank you to Jeff for the lymph information from Real Bodyworks. Thank you to B Naturals for allowing information to go to our shopping section. Thank you to our therapists of the month for agreeing to participate in the questionnaire and to be featured. Thank you to all the websites featured for articles, information, products, and for being there for us. Thank you to Nancy for all the cat graphics usage, also to Anne's place and Sandrak's animations Thank you to Frank Netter for the charts. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Disclaimers and Warnings Unless a copyright is indicated, information on Lymphland website may be reproduced, published or used with the owner, Tina's permission, and Lymphland must be quoted as the source. If copyright is indicated on material, permission to copy this material MUST be obtained from the original source. Using or modifying the material on this site for commercial or profit is prohibited and may violate the copyrights and/or propriety rights of Lymphland or 3rd parties. Mirroring Lymphland's information on another website is not prohibited. Note that Lymphland does not take any responsibility for any actions by others that try any products or methods on the site. Lymphland is a nonprofit, support group based, informative site. If there is any information not credited that you feel is yours, please submit proof and a note to Tina so we can apply the right acknowledgement or remove the material. All materials on Lymphland are for educational purposes only. We comply with the fair use of a copyrighted work by reproduction for the teaching of lymphedema patients. Permission has been obtained for copyrighted materials and/or credit has been displayed for said materials. Our site if for nonprofit educational purposes. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use Release date: 2005-08-01 Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include— (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work -------------------------------------- The material on our website is not meant to replace information give to you by your medical professional, it is only meant to be educational and help you understand the condition. |