Table 3. Lymphedema Quality of Life-Arm scores.

	Before treatment	After treatment	2nd month control	Intra-group
	Mean±SD	Mean±SD	Mean±SD	p
Function
Group 1	2.1±0.7	1.6±0.7	1.7±0.6	0.000a
Group 2	2.1±0.7	1.7±0.5	1.7±0.6	0.000b
P value between groups	0.906	0.253	0.313
Appearance
Group 1	2.6±0.9	1.8±0.7	2.0±0.8	0.000a
Group 2	2.4±0.9	1.8±0.6	1.9±0.7	0.000b
P value between groups	0.358	0.660	0.917
Symptom
Group 1	2.2±0.8	1.7±0.7	1.8±0.6	0.000a
Group 2	2.3±0.7	1.9±0.6	1.9±0.6	0.000b
P value between groups	0.533	0.184	0.281
Emotion
Group 1	2.0±0.7	1.6±0.5	1.6±0.5	0.000a
Group 2	2.2±0.8	1.6±0.5	1.8±0.7	0.000b
P value between groups	0.229	0.917	0.341
Overall
Group 1	5.7±2.0	7.8±1.3	7.3±1.6	0.000a
Group 2	5.0±2.2	7.5±1.3	6.6±1.8	0.000b
P value between groups	0.187	0.386	0.141
SD: Standard deviation; a: Before and after treatment and control for Group 1; b: Before and after treatment and control for Group 2.