The mean ± standard deviation age of the postmastectomy
lymphedema patients was 46.56 ± 6.98 years
and time since mastectomy was 2.08 ± 0.65 years. A statistically
significant reduction in affected upper-limb circumference
was found at three levels of measurement
(p < 0.001), except at the metacarpophalangeal joint level
(p = 0.04) and in the affected upper-limb volume (p <
0.001) (Table 2) following the 8-week home-based exercise
program. Also, a statistically significant difference
was found for QOL scores in all SF-36 domains postintervention
(Table 3). Result analysis of the data is shown
in Tables 2 and 3.