Category: Tips & Tricks
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11 Ways to Boost your Lymphatic System
When your lymphatic system gets sluggish, you feel sluggish — and that’s no good!
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“Facing a ticking clock”
“Sometimes I feel like I am facing a ticking clock, ticking down the number of days in which I can live a semi-normal life, or at least appear to do so to the outside world.”
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How to Care for your Compression Garment
Caring for your compression garment is super important: to take good care of your garment is to take good care of your lymphedema!
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Summer Tips & Promises
It’s June, lymphies! Can you believe it? This year is already halfway over; it’s amazing how quickly the months pass. I wish I could be as excited about the summer as everyone else seems to be, but I’m already a little panicky. We’re right at the cusp of one of the most uncomfortable seasons for…
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Self Care for Lymphedema Management – Get To Know Your Neck!
The following is a guest post from Toronto Physiotherapy: As a Certified Decongestive Therapist trained in manual lymphatic drainage, and a Registered Physiotherapist, I’m often asked by my lymphedema patients why I am so focused on the neck during my lymphatic massage treatments, even when the Lymphedema is presenting in an arm or leg. The…
