Misconceptions about the appropriate direction and pressure for lymphatic massage in lymphoedema abound, and a search of the world wide web

mitigating excess scar formation is of paramount importance in allied health care, and MLD and Elastic Taping are two of the most effective

Understanding the role of the glymphatic system in neurodegenerative diseases opens up new avenues for therapeutic interventions and reinfor

Lymphoedema is a skin disease. Untreated high protein oedema induces connective tissue changes, leading to significant skin pathology such

New initial lymph vessels grow according to the interstitial fluid pressure and strain on the fibres in the ECM. Fluid movement is crucial t

The intervention group then had a second treatment where the MLD was modified according to the individual imaging, while the control group h

The demand for level 1 studies is largely driven by academic needs, rather than tangible, clinically relevant outcomes.

There's nothing quite so satisfying as reading a well written paper which summarises everything interesting that we know about the lymph...

Whether it's long-COVID brain fog, frozen shoulder, or long-term inflammatory disease, Applied MLD offers a lymphatic approach to treatment.

There has been a lot of discussion lately around systematic reviews and RCTs on the effectiveness of MLD in our treatment mix. Measuring tre

Gentle stretching forces help resolve acute inflammation, and reduce pain and immune cell infiltrate. This has implications for those of us

Randomised controlled trials are not suited to assessing the effectiveness of treatments for lymphoedema and other choric diseases.

Cerebral spinal fluid (CFS) is sometimes referred to as a 3rd circulation system, functioning as the lymphatic equivalent to clear wastes fr

Releasing a frozen shoulder makes it much easier to apply effective CDT in arm lymphoedema, and reducing piriformis pain will certainly help

Systematic reviews are an academic exercise to ‘systemically review’ the existing literature on a particular research question. They are ...

explain the scientific basis of the effects of MLD, the specific tissue or system effects achieved by individual techniques, and the expecte

A long time ago I made the mistake of watching some YouTube videos purporting to teach Dr Vodder's MLD. Some of them would have made great...

Across two decades of teaching therapists how to interact with lymphatics through MLD and Lymph Taping, I have witnessed an explosion in...

The study looked at how the lymphatic endothelia cells behave when there is tissue hypoxia, so there are three interesting things here. How

The main difference between the three lymphatic therapies was in the rate of removal of lactic acid, which was more effective in the group r