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Today, a little bit about manual lymphatic drainage in recovery after liposuction surgery. Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) is becoming increasingly popular. It is useful not only after surgery, including liposuction, but for immune health, oedema, digestion, allergies, headaches and actually so many more conditions. Post-liposuction lymphatic massage needs to be  gentle  because of how the lymphatic system is built  and  because of what the tissues have just been through duri

Hello friends, I want to communicate about how effective massage is for supporting positive mental health outcomes. More than just saying "it's good", I want to give you connections to research that supports massage scientifically.  Massage therapy is an evidence-based, non-invasive approach to supporting mental health. It delivers both immediate, short term relaxation, as well as cumulative improvements in stress, anxiety and depression throughout continued therapeutic mas

Do you get migraines ? Do you know what the prodrome and postdrome are? Recently I had a really bloody bad migraine for the first time in a few months, and it inspired me to deliver a bit of information on the topic. Migraine is not just a headache... It is so much more.  I felt pain everywhere. Starving but nauseas. Too fatigued to chew. I couldn't see my fingers. Couldn't remember what I was doing. Migraine prodrome is the hours or days lead up to your migraine. Here is y

I have never been excellent at wording how dry needling works when people ask me, and then I've read recently, phrased easily to understand. One of the (several) ways that dry needling is working is by eliciting a local twitch response to the muscles that disrupts the abnormal electrical signalling to the muscles (if you consider that all our body is powered by electricity/energy) and helps to "reset" it. Imagine how heart arrhythmia is caused sometimes by electrical signall