A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Feasibility and Potential Effectiveness of the Flexitouch System Head and Neck Treatment

Exclusion Criteria

• •Uncontrolled hyperthyroidism or parathyroidism (for which endocrinologist recommends against neck compression).
• •Carotid sinus hypersensitivity syndrome.
• •Symptomatic carotid artery disease, as manifested by a recent transient ischemic attack (within 30 days), ischemic stroke, or amaurosis fugax (monocular visual ischemic symptoms or blindness).
• •Symptomatic bradycardia in the absence of a pacemaker.
• •Internal jugular venous thrombosis, acute or within 3 months.
• •Increased intracranial pressure or other contraindications to internal or external jugular venous compression.
• •Acute radiation dermatitis, unhealed surgical scar, unhealed or open wound(s), surgical flap less than 6-8 weeks post-operative.
• •Facial or head and neck dermal metastasis.
• •Acute facial infection (e.g., facial or parotid gland abscess).
• •Any condition in which increased venous and lymphatic return is undesirable.
• •History of pulmonary edema or decompensated congestive heart failure with in six (6) week of enrollment.
• •Subject is pregnant or trying to become pregnant.