1 Movement. 2  Moving and using the muscles in the part of your body affected by edema may help pump the excess fluid back to your heart. 3  Ask your doctor about exercises you can do that may reduce swelling. 4  Elevation. 5  Hold the swollen part of your body above the level of your heart several times a day.efore trying these self-care techniques, talk to your doctor about which ones are right for you. 1  Movement. 2  Moving and using the muscles in the part of your body affected by edema may help pump the excess fluid back to your heart. 3  Ask your doctor about exercises you can do that may reduce swelling.
Harry S. Truman â President & Haberdasher. In spite the current presidential race going on between Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney, and the political fatigue that follows, we want to profile a past president today.
Even though the Collingsdale, Pa., cemetery contains the bodies of several black luminaries -- including civil rights leader Octavius Valentine Catto and opera singer Marian Anderson -- Williams didn't come for any of these big names. He was there to see John Taylor, the first African American to win Olympic gold. Taylor was a college graduate and a star athlete, recognized for his success even by then president Theodore Roosevelt. But in 1908, the same year he medaled at the Olympic games in London, he died of typhoid pneumonia.