Statistical methodsData pertaining to Visual Analog Scale for pain (the primary end point), basic attributes of patients, and the secondary endpoints were analyzed by first checking the distribution of data using the (Shapiro-Wilk test). Intergroup comparisons between manual lymph drainage and control groups were conducted using unpaired t tests whenever normality was confirmed. In cases of nonnormally distributed data, a (Mann-Whitney test) was used. The level of significance was