This is an example of MLD treatment on a patient’s lower leg and calf muscles. This type of treatment can be used on a patient following injury or surgery to the lower leg or when there is peripheral edema present.
Treatment on the back can be helpful after physical injury, or respiratory type illness, as well as stress and anxiety reduction. Often face and scalp work are also used to target anxiety.
This is a redirecting technique, used to move lymph flow away from its normal pathways when surgery or trauma has damaged the usual route. Eg when a patient receives a mastectomy with lymph node removal in the under arm as part of breast cancer treatment.
Compression bandaging is used in combination with hands on treatment when there is a major lymphedema present.
