Brazilian Butt Lift. Ivo Pitanguy The world renowned Brazilian Plastic Surgeon, who invented the Brazilian Butt Lift dies at the age of 90. In 2015 American Plastic Surgery Association named this year the “Year of the Rear” as the Brazilian Butt Lift was the most requested out of any of the plastic surgery procedures. What is a Brazilian Butt Lift…read more →
Working with chronic pain always a challenge, great article and research. Treating complex issues need new ways of thinking combining different modalities working together. “People develop chronic pain for a huge variety of reasons. We therefore need an equally diverse range of treatments to tackle the different root causes. The clues from this study, suggesting epigenetic changes may be involved…read more →
Study showing manual lymphatic drainage reduction of swelling with post operative third molar removal. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18062616
Plastic surgery doctors answer the questions on how useful is Manual Lymphatic Drainage after liposuction. https://www.realself.com/question/lymphatic-drainage-massage2
Treating scars with massage and manually lymphatic drainage especially new soft scar formation. This edition of Fitness Magazine talks about the best ways to treat scar tissue. http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/beauty/skin-care/best-scar-treatments/
ABC TV network show Catalyst recently aired a program on the ground breaking study of exercise and cancer. Weight training, skipping, jumping, running during chemotherapy. This is a youtube post of the show if you are unable to watch the previous post.
The role of inflammation in the lymphatic system and associated with lymphoedema is starting to become a more researched topic. Future knowledge of how this effects the lymphatic system can go a long way to finding better treatment plans to help lymphoedema and chronic inflammation conditions esp eczema comes to mind. Dr. Pierre-Yves von der Weid, Faculty of Medicine, University…read more →
Interesting article on new findings of lymphatic vessels in and around the brain. More research needs to be done in this area, its articles and findings like this that make me wonder if manual lymphatic drainage could be a treatment for brain injuries in the future. https://cosmosmagazine.com/life-sciences/lymphatic-drain-inside-your-brain
Scar tissue and excessive bruising after plastic surgery: Plastic surgery has benefitted greatly from the introduction of the use of Manual Lymphatic Drainage, excess fluid post surgery has a great impact on the healing of the skin, bruising and scar tissue formation. Improving the visibility of the scar and and skin function is one of the most important factors in…read more →
As part of being a Dr Vodder Lymphoedema therapist every two years we must keep up our continued training, review lymphatic drainage, bandaging and scientific findings relating to lymphatic anatomy and new lymphoedema research. The following photos are part of the lymphoedema review Dr Vodder Clinic, Austria.