A Pressing Matter: What is the Right Pressure in Lymphatic Massage?
Misconceptions about the appropriate direction and pressure for lymphatic massage in lymphoedema abound, and a search of the world wide web
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Interpreting Lymphatic Research to Inform Clinical Practice
Jan Douglass
Sep 30, 20235 min read
Lymphatic pathways, mapping your dynamic immune highway.
In 30+ years of teaching lymphology, the topic most students struggle with in the beginning is the lymph pathways.
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Jan Douglass
Apr 1, 20233 min read
From Manila to Perth and Back
When Adrian Lim saw a young Filipina discharged by a local hospital without proper treatment and management for filarisis-realted...
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Jan Douglass
Sep 4, 20225 min read
5 Reasons you need Applied MLD
Whether it's long-COVID brain fog, frozen shoulder, or long-term inflammatory disease, Applied MLD offers a lymphatic approach to treatment.
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Jan Douglass
Dec 2, 20213 min read
Applied MLD, it's more than just lymphoedema
Releasing a frozen shoulder makes it much easier to apply effective CDT in arm lymphoedema, and reducing piriformis pain will certainly help
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Jan Douglass
Oct 17, 20215 min read
My 10 favourite facts about MLD
One of the things I love about teaching MLD is the ability to combine the hard science behind the Vodder techniques, with my years of...
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Jan Douglass
Aug 19, 20213 min read
How do new discoveries in lymphology influence our clinical practice?
Across two decades of teaching therapists how to interact with lymphatics through MLD and Lymph Taping, I have witnessed an explosion in...
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Jan Douglass
Aug 13, 20202 min read
How does Dr Vodder's MLD affect small blood vessels?
Vodder's MLD is world renown for treating lymphatic conditions, but less well know for small blood vessels disorders such as rosacea.
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Jan Douglass
Jul 15, 20204 min read
The Lymphatic System does not 'Detoxify' your Body
Also, there is no such thing as a lymph gland, you can't directly stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system using MLD (or anything else),
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Jan Douglass
Apr 11, 20205 min read
Basic Pre-Quiz, how did you do?
The Basic Pre-Quiz is being updated. Here are the results on the 500 responses received
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Jan Douglass
Mar 3, 20202 min read
March is the month for raising #LymphoedemaAwareness
What will you do to raise #LymphoedemaAwareness this March?
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Jan Douglass
Sep 25, 20194 min read
Lymph Taping update - the debate on replacing #compression with #lymphtaping continues
Could the inclusion of waving equidistant tapes over a large area of unaffected skin account for the better results observed during taping?
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Jan Douglass
Sep 14, 20192 min read
New delivery format for Dr Vodder courses in 2020
The Vodder courses just got more accessible, with some theory going online and Therapy 1 converted to a certificate of its own.
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Aug 20, 20196 min read
How can Vodder's MLD resolve trigger points without pain?
Did you know that #MLD as described by #Vodder can resolve trigger points and treat conditions such as adhesive_capsulitis ...
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Jul 2, 20191 min read
Lymphoedema services in regional Australia
I just did a quick search on the National Lymphoedema Practitioner Register #NLPR to see where people affected by lymphoedema have access...
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Jun 5, 20196 min read
Keeping up to date in the fast moving world of lymphatics
Understanding that lymph nodes and vessels are so active in lymph flow and immune management, reinforces the need to treat holistically...
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Jan 25, 20192 min read
Winter-days in Walchsee
The Dr Vodder Akadamie hosts an International Teacher Meeting and Lymphology Conference every 18 months, so in alternative years we have...
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Jun 3, 20186 min read
Does MLD improve volume reduction in lymphoedema management? And does the technique really matter?
Therapists looking to the published literature to assist in making a clinical decision about whether to spend time performing MLD for...
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