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Mar 15, 20193 min read

Every little bit helps

Next time one of your clients tells you they don't have time to do their own self-treatment for lymphoedema - tell them it only takes 10...

Jan 25, 20193 min read

Winter-days in Walchsee

Our lovely Koby Blanchfield (Instructor) getting her techniques checked. Yes, we all go back to 'the source' for refinement and...

Dec 27, 20182 min read

Lymphoedema in Rural Ethiopia

The study I am involved with through #CNTD on enhanced #self_care for people affected by moderate to severe #LymphaticFilariasis and...

Oct 25, 20184 min read

Lymphoedema in Rural Bangladesh

My main role at the Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases #CNTD - so far - has been to design and implement a study to see if we can...

Sep 1, 20182 min read

Using ICG to image the effects of MLD

What ICG fluoroscopy can't tell us, is what is happening in the deep system, nor the systemic effects of MLD which were shown by Heutzschenr

Aug 14, 20185 min read

Is it really fibrosis? Or is it thixotropic tissue change?

I had an email recently from a therapist who described her client as having deep #pitting_oedema and heavy #fibrosis. Technically this is...

Jun 3, 20186 min read

Does MLD improve volume reduction in lymphoedema management? And does the technique really matter?

A recent SR and MA on standard therapy (compression with or without exercise and skin-care), compared to standard therapy with MLD, concl

Mar 8, 20183 min read

Brain drainage – what’s all the fuss about?

An area of great excitement in lymphatic research - and I think great confusion - is the ‘new discovery’ of ‘lymph vessels’ in the brain. Th

Jan 3, 20184 min read

Shedding light on fluorescent imaging

Also called near-infrared fluorescence imaging (NIRFI) or near-infrared fluorescence lymphatic imaging (NIRFLI) the technique uses a very sm