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22/09/2025

✨ Scar Therapy in Action ✨
This image shows how gentle scar therapy helps to “fill out the hollow” left behind by an old surgical scar.

🔵 The dark area represents the scar — where fascia has been disrupted.
➡️The arrows show how therapy techniques (like warming, soft cupping, and gentle fascia work) guide healthy tissue and circulation back into the area.
💜Over time, this helps restore balance, soften the scar, and reduce tension.

When we have surgery, the scar can sometimes leave a ‘hollow’ in the fascia — like a pothole in a road. This hollow doesn’t just stay on the surface; it can affect how the tissue moves and feels.

Scar tissue often leaves a hollow or gap in the fascia, like a pothole in the road. When I work gently around the scar, I encourage the surrounding fascia to glide and push toward the hollow, slowly filling it in.

Think of it like moving sand into a dip at the beach — over time, the surface evens out. By guiding the fascia this way, we can reduce pulling tension, improve movement, and help the scar feel softer and less noticeable.

22/09/2025

21/09/2025

Why Lymphatic Blockages Affect the Whole Body

🟢Brain Fog & Fatigue

The lymphatic system is the body’s waste disposal network. If lymph isn’t flowing well, toxins and metabolic waste linger in tissues and bloodstream. This buildup can affect the glymphatic system in the brain, reducing clearance of waste during sleep → leading to fogginess, poor focus, and tiredness.

🟣Swelling & Puffiness

Lymphatic vessels remove excess fluid from tissues. When flow slows, fluid accumulates → oedema, puffiness, or heaviness in limbs, face, or abdomen. People often notice tight rings, swollen ankles, or morning puffiness when lymph drainage is sluggish.

🔵Skin Breakouts & Inflammation

Skin is sometimes called the “third kidney”, because it helps eliminate toxins. When lymph stagnates, waste products get trapped under the skin → acne, dullness, or rashes. Improved lymph flow often makes the skin look brighter, clearer, and more vibrant.

🟡Lowered Immunity

Lymph nodes are immune checkpoints where white blood cells trap pathogens. Stagnant lymph slower immune surveillance. This makes it easier for infections to linger or recur, and may explain why some people get frequent colds or feel “run down.

🟤Overall Systemic Imbalance

Lymph flow is tightly connected to fascia, circulation, and the nervous system. Sluggish lymph can create a cascade of effects. Poor nutrient delivery (fats & vitamins carried in lymph move slower). Inflammation (as toxins sit longer in tissues) Emotional symptoms (stress hormones can rise when the body feels congested)

✅ This is why lymphatic health is now seen as a hidden pillar of wellness: it doesn’t just affect swelling—it influences energy, skin, immune defence, and even mood clarity.

20/09/2025

Today, one of my regular clients (68 years old with post-knee surgery) asked me a great question: ‘What is synovial fluid, and do we lose it as we age?’ 💭

Synovial fluid is the body’s natural joint ‘oil’ that keeps everything moving smoothly. As we get older, our body produces less of it, and it becomes thinner. That’s why joints can sometimes feel stiffer or achier, especially after surgery.

💜 The good news is that movement, hydration, scar therapy, and remedial massage, physiotherapy all help keep this fluid circulating and nourishing your joints.

✨ Gentle exercises like walking, cycling, swimming, yoga, or Tai Chi are also wonderful ways to keep your joints happy and supported.

Ageing does reduce synovial fluid, but lifestyle can make a big difference in keeping it healthier for longer.

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20/09/2025

Welcomed a new client with secondary lymphoedema. Treatment involved MLD in combination with LymphaTouch and lymphatic taping. Client was also educated in self-lymphatic drainage techniques and instructed on the safe application of lymphatic taping for home management.

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19/09/2025

Today I welcomed a new client 🌷who suspected she may have lipoedema. She had already joined a lipoedema support group and was receiving regular lymphatic drainage massage, but wanted to learn more about managing her condition. While she hasn’t had a formal diagnosis yet, she is already very proactive with her self-care. During our session, I was able to share information about lipoedema management and practical tools to help her. With her full permission, I’m sharing these photos to raise awareness and help others who may be experiencing similar changes in their body.

18/09/2025

Lymphedema therapists—don’t miss this opportunity to connect and learn! Join the upcoming Lymphedema Seminars Zoom Live Networking & Educational Workshop: “Lipedema: Diagnosis, Treatment & Future.” Gain valuable insights, expand your knowledge, and engage with fellow professionals in this interactive online event.

📅 Date: October 4, 2025
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Register today: https://lymphseminars.com/10-04-25-live-zoom-lipedema-diagnosis-treatment-future/

18/09/2025

Happy Friday 🌸

Why Lipoedema Clients Respond Well with Reflexology and Organic Facial?

Lipoedema often involves heavy legs, tenderness, and impaired lymph flow. By improving drainage in the neck (final pathway) and boosting systemic relaxation and circulation through reflexology, giving their lymph system the support it needs to shift fluid—even without a full-body MLD.

Even though my client isn’t receiving a full-body Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) session, they’re still responding well with spa organic facial and foot reflexology because of how the lymphatic system and fascia are connected.

Key Lymphatic “Gateways” Are in the Face and Neck
The cervical lymph nodes around the neck, jawline, and under the ears. When you do a spa facial, you’re stimulating lymphatic drainage in these high-traffic areas where lymph fluid must pass through before returning to the venous system. Even light stimulation here can open up flow pathways, reducing congestion further down in the body.

Reflexology Activates Systemic Responses
The feet are full of nerve endings and reflex points that correspond to the lymphatic system, digestive system, and other organs. Working on these points increases parasympathetic activation (rest-and-digest), which calms the nervous system. This alone can improve lymphatic rhythm (lymph angion contractions are strongly influenced by the autonomic nervous system).

Have you tried a spa facial or foot reflexology as part of your lipoedema treatment?
These gentle therapies don’t just relax — they also support lymphatic drainage. A facial helps stimulate the main lymphatic pathways in the neck, while reflexology calms the nervous system and encourages whole-body flow. Together, they can leave you feeling lighter, less congested, and deeply restored.💜

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18/09/2025

Therapists in the Philippines — don’t miss this opportunity!
Join Klose Training’s Lymphedema Therapy Certification in Manila, February 8–14, 2026 and gain the skills to provide life-changing care through Complete Decongestive Therapy.

📅 February 8–14, 2026
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17/09/2025

What is the Fascia System?

Fascia is a continuous, three dimensional web of connective tissue that runs throughout the entire body. It surrounds, supports, and interconnects every muscle, bone, nerve, blood vessel, organ, and lymphatic pathway. Think of it as the body’s internal “cling wrap” holding everything in place, while also allowing smooth movement and communication between structures.

Fascia is not just passive packaging.

It Provides structural support maintaining posture and body shape. Allows gliding and movement reducing friction between muscles and organs. Communicates tension and force fascia is full of sensory nerve endings, making it important for proprioception (body awareness) and pain perception. Connects with lymphatics fluid flows through fascial spaces, supporting lymphatic drainage and circulation.

What is Fascia Made From?
Fascia is primarily made of. Collagen fibres giving it strength and tensile resistance. Elastin fibres providing stretch and flexibility. Ground substance (extracellular matrix) – a gel-like fluid that hydrates the tissue, allowing fascia layers to slide smoothly over each other. This fluid is rich in water, proteoglycans, and glycosaminoglycans (like hyaluronic acid). Cells (fibroblasts & myofibroblasts) these maintain and remodel the fascia, producing collagen and repairing micro-tears.

Why it Matters
If fascia becomes tight, dehydrated, or scarred, it can restrict movement, trap nerves, and impair circulation or lymph flow. Hydration, stretching, massage, and movement help keep fascia supple, healthy, and able to perform its many functions.

17/09/2025

Two new lovely clients yesterday for lymphatic drainage massage 💜 One even travelled a long way to see me. I feel so grateful for the trust, and I hope the session made the trip worthwhile. 🌷

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