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It has been examined how leg edema and its skin conditions are affected by bandage therapy universally conducted in skin and body care c1inics. It was experimented with 28 women living in Seoul and Kyungki areas and those women were c1assified into several quotas as different experimental methods which are a manual massage, a combination of manual massage and bandage therapy, and a combination of manual massage and fulguration. The experimental manual technique group (Manual Technique Group less MG) , manual technique group and bandagetherapy(Manual Technique and Bandage Combine Group less MBG) , manual technique and high -frequency group (Manual Technique and High Frequency Group MHG) and the control group (Control Group; less CG) was composed. It shows that bandage therapy affected leg’s edema 。、Terall by reducing the size of a leg, especially that of a thigh. The order of degree in the size most reduced was evaluated to be the manual massage with the bandage therapy, manual massage with fulguration, and single manual massage. Regarding the effect on skin condition, the most reduction of pigmentation was caused by the manual massage with fulguration followed by the manual massage with the bandage therapy, and the manual massage in itself. This result shows that the bandage therapy has positive effects on improving the thigh size as well as skin conditions, especially for the pigmentation. It is now being planed to develop well-organized programs relative to the bandage therapy which affect leg’s edema and skin conditions through a variety of case studies by gender, age, and body type, and so on.