For health professionals in the aesthetic and plastic surgery space, achieving optimal client satisfaction involves a comprehensive, evidence-based post-operative recovery plan. While transient swelling is a usual and expected consequence of body-altering procedures, the management of early post-operative swelling and the integrity of the lymphatic system are paramount to skin rehabilitation, scar minimisation, and preventing long-term complications. MLD is rapidly emerging a

Skin is meant to be touched It's natural for us to touch, hug and stroke those we love. These caring actions don't just maintain our social networks, they are rooted in biological processes which ensure the skin remains healthy, and that immune reactions favour would healing and tissue repair. MLD Therapists can harness this dynamic interaction to deliver treatment strategies that promote healing, improve patient outcomes, and foster overall well-being.

Although most surgical wounds will heal well, almost half will result in persistent post-surgical pain, with as many as 40% of post-op patients reporting symptoms consistent with neuropathic pain. Physiologically different to usual post-surgical pain which resolves naturally as tissue healing progresses, neuropathic pain is a complex and often misunderstood condition that may persist long after wound healing has occurred, and can significantly reduce quality of life (1,2)

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

mitigating excess scar formation is of paramount importance in allied health care, and MLD and Elastic Taping are two of the most effective