Lymphatic Drainage Massage
Your Lymphatic System
To understand why lymphatic massage therapies are important, one needs to understand the role of the lymphatic system.
The lymphatic system is a major part of your immune system, and one of the two primary circulatory systems in your body, along with your blood system.
Because of an alarming increase of toxins around us, detoxifying the body and stimulating your immune system is very important to stay healthy, or to recover from surgery or illness.
“Proper lymph flow is essential if your body is to remain disease-free. Additionally, obstructed or poor lymphatic drainage bas been linked to two of the most common forms of cancer (breast and prostate), and plays a pivotal role in the metastasis of various forms of cancer throughout the body … Improving lymph flow can have a dramatic impact on your health, particularly for individuals who have undergone surgeries, severe trauma, infections, or radiations treatments for cancer …”
What Can Lymphatic Drainage Do For You?
In addition to the benefits of traditional massage, it may help:
- With prevention and recovery
- To eliminate from your body substances and toxins such as bacteria, viruses, cancer cells, proteins, heavy metals, dues and dyes, destroyed cells, and many other unhealthy toxins, etc.
- To restore balance to your body chemistry
- To produce more white blood cells, the lymphocytes, and to greatly support your immune system.
- To drain fluids, support weight loss, hasten recovery, including surgery, dental and other procedures …
- To help to prevent cancer and support cancer recovery (under medical supervision).
Why Everybody Benefits From Lymphatic Drainage?
Imagine how you would feel if you were not washing your skin and brushing your teeth every day!
With so much stress and toxins in our lives, each one of us benefits greatly from “cleaning & detoxifying” the inside of our bodies with Lymphatic Drainage every 6 months, and more often i we have a health condition.
Receiving Lymphatic Drainage regularly may significantly reduce the risk of major health issues. Lymphatic drainage is often recommended by Medical Doctors and Health Practitioners. It has been widely practiced in hospitals and clinics all over Europe.
HOW OFTEN SHOULD I RECEIVE LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE?
Healthy person: a series of 4 to 6 treatments recommended every six months, as teeth-cleaning.
Health imbalances: as needed
Your lymph nodes are found throughout the body
History of the Lymphatic Therapies
In the 1600’s, Thomas Bartholin, Danish Physician, discovered the lymphatic system.
In 1936 in Paris, Dr. Emil Vodder and his wife Estrid have shown how to improve the lymph flow with light stretching of the skin, which could have a dramatic and long lasting effect on health, prevention and recovery.
In 1982 Lymphatic Drainage was introduced in North America.