Lymphatic Massage

Struggling with edema (fluid retention)?

Need help recovering from a surgery or injury?

Inflammation causing all sorts of pain?

Let’s move some Lymph! What is the Lymphatic System?

How does Manual Lymphatic Drainage work?

  • Your Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) has been specifically trained and educated on the lymphatic ducts and mapping of the lymphatic system to ensure proper flow and movement of fluids.

  • Using the map of your lymphatic system, your LMT utilizes gentle wave like pressure to open the lymphatic ducts and then move fluids towards those ducts.

  • This fluid movement may help lessen inflammation and fluid retention as a whole to ensure proper filtration of stagnant fluids

Before and After Care:

After your lymphatic session:

  • be sure to drink more hydrating fluids - stagnant fluids have been moved toward filtering out and need to be replaced by hydrating fluids

  • limit exercise to light movement as to not cause inflammation to reoccur and to allow for your body to filter the stagnant fluids

Before your lymphatic session:

  • drink a plenty of hydrating fluids to ensure lymphatic flow has started

  • reduce your toxin intake

  • be mindful of your inflammatory food intake

Possible side effects from Manual Lymphatic Drainage:

  • You may have an increased urge to urinate

  • You may feel congestion/pressure in your nasal cavity

  • You may have increased thirst

  • If you have been exposed to sickness and it’s sitting in your system, lymphatic massage may push that sickness through your system

  • If you are currently sick, lymphatic massage can worsen your sickness as it’s moving through your body

Ideal or Not Ideal?

Who is NOT ideal?

  • if you have:

    • Heart problems

    • Kidney failure

    • Blood clots

    • Infections

Who is ideal for Lymphatic Massage?

  • if you have:

    • inflammatory conditions

      • rheumatoid arthritis

      • arthritis

      • fibromyalgia

      • Chronic venous insufficiency

      • Lipedema

    • surgeries/injuries

    • Edema: swelling/fluid retention

    • lymphedema

    • allergies

    • migraines/headaches

    • cancer (medical clearance may be required)