Lymphoedema is a daily challenge, even for those with access to the best specialty care. For most, poverty, ignorance and stigma with amply

Explore how Manual Lymph Drainage (MLD) promotes wound healing through lymphangiogenesis, improves tissue repair, and reduces chronic wound

As many of us resolve to lose weight this year, it’s vital to consider how success is measured to avoid unrealistic goals and setbacks.

The populatory of elastic taping among athletes and health professionals is visible across our sporting screens, and the use of elastic tape

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

An easy - and free - way for therapists to assess clinical progress is to use an analogue scale. Image by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on...

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

Between COVID, climate change and the exponential growth of our connected world, it is obvious to me that we must now behave as as global co

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

... not surprising when you consider the strong links between lymphatic disease and fat disorders, they are reciprocal risk factors for each

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 ...

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

Thompson et al, found evidence for MLD to prevent onset in early breast cancer patients and to reduce arm volume in early stage lymphoedema

The study I am involved with through #CNTD on enhanced #self_care for people affected by moderate to severe #LymphaticFilariasis and...

My main role at the Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases #CNTD - so far - has been to design and implement a study to see if we can...

I had an email recently from a therapist who described her client as having deep #pitting_oedema and heavy #fibrosis. Technically this is...