Moving Lymph

Cerebral spinal fluid (CFS) is sometimes referred to as a 3rd circulation system, functioning as the lymphatic equivalent to clear wastes...

Anyone seeking specialist lymphoedema care will naturally expect their therapist to focus treatment on the lymphoedema, but both Vodder...

Systematic reviews are an academic exercise to ‘systemically review’ the existing literature on a particular research question. They are ...

One of the things I love about teaching MLD is the ability to combine the hard science behind the Vodder techniques, with my years of...

A long time ago I made the mistake of watching some YouTube videos purporting to teach Dr Vodder's MLD. Some of them would have made great...

Across two decades of teaching therapists how to interact with lymphatics through MLD and Lymph Taping, I have witnessed an explosion in...

I love finding out new things about the lymph system, such a fascinating area of new discovery! This is partly because even basic...

The bulk of published research on lymphatic therapies are on oncology patients, and the majority of these are on breast cancer-related...

Last November I posted on the role of MLD in the treatment of potential post-COVID symptoms, you can read my preliminary thoughts on the...

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

My Mum's knee surgery went really well, after 3-weeks of MLD and exercise she has recovered almost full flexion and extension.

Next week my Mum will have a knee replacement. Scans show almost no cartilage left between the condyles and the tibial plateau, and the...

CRPS-I? CRPS-II? RSD? Sudeck's Dystrophy? No idea what I'm talking about? These are all current and previous names for a condition now...

A recent article by Ruth Werner in the Massage & Myotherapy Journal, sets out a thorough review of potential long term COVID-related...

While there are multiple studies showing that MLD & CDT reduce the symptoms of inflammation and can reverse some fibrotic changes, there is

Vodder's MLD is world renown for treating lymphatic conditions, but less well know for small blood vessels disorders such as rosacea.

there is no such thing as a lymph gland, the parasympathetic nervous system can be directly simulated by MLD & MLD does not remove fat cells

Lymph flow is required for the valves to form and function, and now we know that endothelial cells can ‘sense’ the flow and respond.

My issue is that therapists and clients pick up on studies like this and start thinking that it means we should do something different

The Vodder courses just got more accessible, with some theory going online and Therapy 1 converted to a certificate of its own.