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Lymph Drainage – Exercises Lymphoedema
– A specific exercise program, designed to assist the lymph drainage
from your swollen limb is an important part of your overall management
for lymphoedema and something that you can do to help yourself.
Lymph-Drainage Exercises PDF View or Download
Gua Sha - 刮痧 "Scraping Bruises," Ancient Asian healing technique using a tool usually made of Jade
Gua-Sha Breast Lymph Drainage
Effects of Gua-Sha therapy on breast engorgement: a randomized controlled trial. Conclusions and Implications - Chiu JY1, Gau ML, Kuo SY, Chang YH, Kuo SC, Tu HC. "Our findings
provided empirical evidence supporting that Gua-Sha therapy may be used
as an effective technique in the management of breast engorgement."
Medical News Today - Gua-Sha practitioners should not break the skin during the treatment. Broken skin increases the
possibility of infection, so a Gua-Sha practitioner should always
sterilize their tools between treatments.
Gua-Sha is not suitable for everybody. People who should not have Gua-Sha include those who have medical conditions affecting the skin or veins, who bleed easily, take medication to thin their blood, who have deep vein thrombosis, infection, tumor, or wounds, implants such as a pacemaker or internal defibrillator.
Gua Sha 101 - Face Lymph Drainage
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Gua-Sha - Hands
Face Lymph Drainage without tools
Upper Lymph Drainage without tools
Dry Brushing Lymphatic Drainage
MLD - Manual Lymph Drainage
Lymphocytes are important in health and disease
By
Tom Iarocci, MD - 10 must-know
lymphocyte facts, to get you started;
- Lymphocytes are a kind of white blood cell (WBC).
- Lymphocytes are cells of the immune system and help fight infection.
- Lymphocytes live in lymph nodes, but also in the blood stream and all over the body.
- Lymphocytes come in two main types: B-cells and T-cells.
- Abnormal numbers of lymphocytes in the blood may be temporary or long-term.
- Too many lymphocytes in the blood is called lymphocytosis.
- Too few lymphocytes in the blood is called lymphopenia.
- Lymphocytes may be malignantly transformed into chronic lymphocytic leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and certain types of lymphoma.
- Lymphocytes originate from stem cells in the bone marrow.
- T-lymphocytes mature, or grow up, in the thymus, an organ in the neck area.
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