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As a Professional Member of the LAQ, you join a recognized network committed to improving care for people living with lymphedema, lipedema, or chronic edema.
Physicians, residents, and specialized nurse practitioners (SNPs) may register as prescribers. Therapists trained in the Vodder method must hold a current Level 3 certification.
Your membership allows you to:
Joining the LAQ means taking concrete action to advance care and recognition for conditions that are still too often overlooked.
Approximately 273,000 people in Québec are living with lymphedema.
Unaware they are affected, many of them go undiagnosed and untreated, leading to “unexplained” complications that become increasingly difficult to manage over time – including chronic wounds, recurrent cellulitis, and physical impairments.
As for lipedema, international studies (ILA, Földi Clinic, etc.) estimate its prevalence between 11% and 17% of women – representing at least 90,000 women in Québec.
These figures may seem surprising or alarming, but they reflect how challenging it is for the medical community to detect chronic edema, especially when combined with venous insufficiency or severe obesity.
Both lymphedema and lipedema are chronic, progressive conditions that remain underdiagnosed, undertreated, and under-researched – despite access to a generous RAMQ assistance program that covers essential compression garments for lymphedema treatment.
By becoming a professional member of the LAQ, you support our efforts to raise awareness in the medical and scientific communities. PLUS, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits to support your lymphedema/chronic edema practice. An annual membership fee of $200 entitles you to a full range of services and tools.
Access to ProLymph – With free registration, novice and expert caregivers have access to a telephone service, a forum for exchange, areference library, and a bulletin board of lymphedema events and training. Access is reserved for physicians, nurses, lymphedema therapists, orthotists, fitters or members of a professional order.
If you add a donation to your membership fee, we’ll send you an official charitable donation receipt for that portion of the amount.
If you have any questions, please contact our head office at aql@infolympho.ca
The Lymphedema Association of Québec (LAQ) provides support, education, and awareness to individuals living with lymphedema, lipedema, or lipo-lymphedema, as well as to their families, loved ones, and healthcare professionals.
We inform and educate about these chronic conditions – their causes, risks of progression (including how lipedema can develop into lipo-lymphedema), and the available conservative and postoperative treatment options, such as decongestive therapy and compression.
We also actively support scientific research aimed at improving care and advancing knowledge toward a cure.
Lymphedema Association of Québec
Therapeutic Support Program
514 979-2463
Mailing address
648 Lajeunesse Street,
Laval, Quebec, H7X 3K5CP
Telephone
514 979-2463
Email
aql@infolympho.ca
Website
www.infolympho.ca
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