Early Intervention Lower Limb Oedema Course

Learn how to screen, assess and effectively manage mild below-knee oedema

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Screen, assess and effectively manage mild below-knee oedema

This course will educate the health professional on how to screen, assess and effectively manage mild below-knee oedema and refer on as required for more complex and severe cases.

Who Should Complete this Course?

It is ideal for those working as part of a community organisation, delivering services through home care, general practitioner practices and for residential aged care facilities.

For those wanting skills to manage chronic oedema of the entire lower limb and more advanced below-knee oedema, the Chronic Oedema Lower Limb Course is the most appropriate course.

Early Intervention Lower Limb Oedema Course

Chronic oedema in the legs should be identified and managed as early as possible. This will help reduce the impact it may have on the client’s health and well being.

Prerequisites

This course is open to registered health professionals only (Registered Division 1 Nurses, Medical Practitioners, Occupational Therapists,  Physiotherapists and Podiatrists).

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The course is developed around three themes.

Theme 1

Knowledge development in the following areas:

  • Basic Anatomy and physiology of the vascular and lymphatic system;
  • Pathophysiology of chronic oedema in the lower limb;
  • Oedema differential diagnosis;
  • Assessment of mild below-knee chronic lower limb oedema;
  • Management of mild below-knee chronic oedema in the lower limb. It will also include an overview of management solutions that might be required for more severe chronic oedema.
  • Working within the scope of practice and identification of when to refer on.

Theme 2

Chronic oedema skill development in the following areas;

  • Assessment;
  • Treatment of mild below-knee chronic oedemas.

Theme 3

Applied practice. The focus of this theme is on developing skills that are required for clinical practice. It integrates elements from the other themes and has a focus on clinical reasoning.

The key characteristics of the Early Intervention Lower Limb Oedema Course curriculum are:

Cased Based Learning

 The course is underpinned by the exploration of chronic oedema management through case studies that will facilitate the integration of information and skills to specific chronic oedema conditions. This will facilitate an authentic learning experience.

Interdisciplinary Care

The course fosters an appreciation of interdisciplinary teamwork and explores the roles and the development of practitioners across professions. The participant will have specific areas of expertise that they can draw upon and assist other learners. It also acknowledges scope of practice and working within and identifying when to refer on.

Integrated Curriculum

The goal of the integrated curriculum of this course is to bring the learner beyond skill and concept acquisition to creativity and evidence-based decision-making and implementation in practice.

This hybrid course combines self-paced online learning, virtual sessions and a face-to-face component.

The course is underpinned by evidence-based learning and the content reflects the current best practice in chronic oedema management. Each participant must complete each section of the course.
 

Self-Paced Online Learning

The self-paced online learning component is delivered via the Lymphoedema Education Solutions learning management system. This component is compulsory and will prepare the participant for the virtual sessions. It is estimated that it will take approximately 10 hours to complete. The modules need to be completed before the virtual sessions which is a prerequisite. As part of the self-paced learning, the learner will explore a case study from assessment to management. This will be discussed as part of the virtual sessions.

Clinical Reasoning and Practical Sessions

Participants are required to have 100% attendance throughout the following sessions. 

Remote Session: 1-hour group virtual session that develops the participant’s clinical reasoning around assessment utilising the case study from the self-paced online course. 

Face-to-Face Workshop: The face to face component is 2 consecutive days where the participant’s manual skills and clinical reasoning will be developed. This includes circumference measuring, palpation, exercise prescription, manual lymphatic drainage, wrap, and garment application and management decision making. During these 2 days, the participant will be required to expose to just above the knee. Comfortable clothes are essential. 

Virtual Mentoring Program – 5 virtual sessions that are focused on assessing skills and making sure that the participant is feeling confident (Refer to the Virtual Mentoring Program section for further details).

Assessment is included in both the self-paced learning and the face-to-face learning components of the course.

Self-paced learning assessment
The modules include formative online quizzes that participants must achieve 80%. They have 3 attempts to complete each quiz.

Practical assessment and clinical reasoning
Day 2 of the face to face component. Participants will work in pairs and the following assessments will be undertaken:

  • Circumference assessment activity
  • Apply and remove a compression garment to another participant. The participant then applies and removes the compression garment to themselves.
  • Apply and remove a compression wrap to another participant.
  • Manual lymphatic drainage for a below-knee case study.

Virtual oral assessment
To check specific knowledge, each course participant will be invited to book into a 20-minute virtual oral assessment. This will be marked against an assessment rubric. The participant will be asked questions regarding a specific case study. This will include questions around educating a client about chronic oedema, sizing compression garments and providing education about wearing and looking after a compression garment.

Clinical reasoning assignment
The participant assesses a client and formalises a treatment plan including sizing for a garment. This is submitted online. This case study will be included as part of the mentoring program. Client treatment implementation and evaluation will be explored during the 6-month mentoring program.

Minimum of 14 course participants

It includes:

  • 9-month access to the comprehensive early intervention lower limb oedema course via the LES online Learning Management System. This platform provides an interactive and collaborative environment.
  • Course manuals for the self-paced online and face to face course component.
  • Resources manual and tape measures
  • The opportunity to develop a wide variety of skills and clinical reasoning in oedema management of mild below-knee chronic oedema while in a face to face classroom setting. This includes assessment, manual lymphatic draining, compression wrap/garment prescription and application.
  • A unique mentoring program for each course participant.
  • Resources to enable the participant to get started upon successful course completion. 
  • Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea on the full day face-to-face workshop and morning tea and lunch on the second day.

Upon successful completion of the course, after the mentoring program has finished, the participant will be provided with a course certificate for 30 hours of continuing professional

Virtual Mentoring Program

Chronic Oedema Solution’s goal is to make sure the health professional feels confident in assessing and managing mild below-knee chronic oedema. The key to success is to support the health professional when they deliver care to their clients. The mentoring program will guide the health professional as they assess and manage their clients as well as provide an opportunity to be part of a community of learners and collaborate via peer-to-peer learning. This will be scaffolded by an experienced mentor. Participants are required to have 100% attendance throughout the mentoring program.
 
The program commences after the clinical reasoning assignment has been completed and comprises of 5 sessions delivered over 6 months.  The health professional will be allocated to a group (where possible health professionals from the same organisation will be placed into the same mentoring group). It comprises of the following sessions.
 
  • One on one virtual session with the mentor after the face-to-face component
  • 4 x 1 hour virtual group sessions

Upcoming course details

Online: Commences 1st August 
Face to face: Thursday 28th August 8.15am to 5pm and Friday 29th August 8.30- 2.30pm 
Venue: Level 9, 369 Royal Parade (corner Royal Parade and Walker St) opposite Princes Park, Parkville
Price: $695 per person inc GST
 

Travel information:
Tram 19 along Royal Parade from city Tramstop 16
 
Paid Parking in side streets via easypark app

Register

Please complete the following registration form for the Early Intervention Lower Limb Oedema Course with online learning commencing August 2025. Payment in full is required to secure your registration. 

Lymphoedema Educations Solutions Terms of Business

The following agreement is made between the participant registering for the course (as indicated on this registration form) and Lymphoedema Education Solutions (LES).
Payment and Refund Policy
A place in the course will not be secured until the Participant receives confirmation of payment receipt. A non-refundable amount of $90.00 (GST inclusive) applies to the course fee. Full payment must be received before the Participant can access the course. Once the online learning has commenced, the full course fee becomes non-refundable. The course information includes the start date of the online learning component. 
Once full payment is received, the Participant will receive a confirmation email and a receipt. A tax invoice will also be issued upon payment of the full course fee.
If the Participant is travelling from interstate and are unable to attend due to border closures, they can request to either transfer their deposit or full payment to another LES training program by email info@lymphoedemaeducation.com.au.
Course cancellation
Notification of cancellations must be sent by post or email info@lymphoedemaeducation.com.au. All cancellations incur an administration fee of $90 (GST inclusive).
Places are limited and minimum and maximum course numbers apply. All workshop practical sessions are completed in pairs and therefore even numbers are required.
Scope of Practice
The applicant acknowledges and understands that the course is designed for practitioners with suitable existing health professional qualifications. The course description identifies which types of health professional qualifications are required. The applicant undertakes to the course provider that it is suitably qualified in accordance with the course prerequisites and holds a current registration.
Course Materials
All materials provided in courses and workshops are protected by Copyright and intellectual property laws.
Reproduction and re-transmission of the materials, in whole or part, in any manner, without prior consent of the copyright holder, is a violation of copyright law. Individuals must preserve any copyright or other notices contained in or associated with the materials. Users may not distribute copies to others, whether or not in electronic form, whether or not for charge or consideration, without prior written consent of the copyright holder of the materials.
Privacy Policy
We respect your personal information and your privacy is important to us. We will use our best efforts to protect your personal information from unauthorised access. We may use your personal information to contact you from time to time about products and services we think you may be interested in. Part of the course involves communicating via email with other course participants and for this reason you agree that your email address may be shared with other course participants. We may give your details to course sponsors and exhibitors unless you ask us not to. Please ask us if you have any queries about providing your personal information.

Thank you to the following organisations for their support.

Looking Ahead: Optional Future Opportunity

Annual Clinical Skills and Clinical Reasoning Update Session
While not part of the current course, this optional session may be of interest in approximately 12 months.

Maintaining and refining practical skills is essential for health professionals. This 2-hour session provides an opportunity to:

  • Have clinical skills reviewed and updated

  • Learn about recent developments and best practices

  • Deepen clinical reasoning through guided activities

A certificate of participation will be provided.

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