RE: Can edema be massaged?

http://massagenerd.com/pictures/Lymph_chart.jpg

From: http://www.youtube.com/kimmo333339 can edema be massaged? Here is a lymphatic drainage video clips I did back in the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3XmxosrPqA

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Education

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• lymph
• edema
• swelling
• massage
• lmd
• manual
• lymphatic
• drainage
• therapy

[theogoslett]

I'm a massage student, and what you said was so in-sync with what I' learning. Now I just have to find where to go to ask you my question. If I can't find it, it's "well I've been taught how to give a lymphatic drainage treatment a patient who has just had a mastectomy but, I'm now about to take one on. What else do I need to know?

[massagenerd]

Make sure the client is cancer free and get permission from their doctor if they are unsure if it's totally gone. Also, it's a good idea to raise the arm above their heart to help with the fluid drain during the treatment.

[rayunseitig]

Thanks for a good introduction. Is there some sort of drawing which shows where the lymph nodes are, so we can direct the flow in that direction?

[massagenerd]

I'll post a link in the sidebar.

[ditchem63]

i would like to send you a picture of my husbands lets they are exstreamly swallen and puss is seeping out is there anything i can do to stop the legs from seeping?

[brxbrx1]

@scaserto

Have your father see a doctor. A real doctor, not some holistic quack. Then listen to what the doctor says.

[scaserto]

Hey Im a massage therapist. My dads feet are really swollen from edema and im worried about it i just need a crash course on how to perform MLD on the legs and feet. ive never had to before and i need to know where are the areas on the legs that need to be warmed up and and how to go about it. i dont want to make it worse, but on the other hand i need to do something to help him. so if you can help me out that would be awsome.

thank you

[MsReds75]

thank you for sharing this :)  Well, i am already 35 and odema is an absolutely new term to me since i heared about it just a few weeks ago. I have overweight and believed that this is the pure fat at my anckles and upper-arms and not a liquid-storage because my lymph-system might fail..

[samhainaz]

Thanks for posting this. I have been using the socks you mentioned for a few years now. It was hard for me at the beginning to find teds socks. I don't know if anyone's mentioned this but they're also called "compression" socks. They are very worth it and you can find them online almost anywhere better by that name without a prescription.

[Damooon]

@Damooon Well ... it's hardly noticeable even now before i try and combat it. I know no one has ever recovered from this disease, and i wont get my hopes up. But i'm going to try damn hard to get rid of it :D

[Damooon]

First thanks for the great explanation. My mother has lymphedema of the right leg and now ... so do i. I only have a very mild case of it, i spotted it and realised what it was a month or 2 into having it. stumped my doctors but my mother knew haha. I'm going to massage twice a day, cut out any unhealthy foods from my diet, wear my stocking through the day, keep it raised on pillows over night and go swimming every other day. hopefully i can make it hardly noticeable :D

[YeshuaSavior]

Also, massage or lmd is not contraindicated for cancer pts. But you do need the doctors' approval & know what you're doing. there are classes specifically for oncology massage. And for training for mld (manual lymphatic drainage) or cdt (complete decongestive therapy)

[YeshuaSavior]

It's not lymph nodes that are right underneath your skin, it's the lymph capillaries. From the capillaries they go down into the precollectors, then to the collectors. The collectors pump to the regional nodes. Most nodes are deep in the abdominal region & the neck. They filter in the nodes & are purified & the thoracic duct transports lymph upward to the left lymphatic duct. The left lymphatic duct empties the lymph into the left subclavian vein.