Do you want to improve your overall health?
Massage therapy can help with your mental and physical health through healing touch and complementary things like therapeutic scents. Different treatments offer different benefits, and a lymphatic drainage massage is one of the deepest forms of massage therapy.
The work of a massage therapist is based in historical techniques from ancient China. Healers have used these methods and built upon them over thousands of years, targeting specific needs in the patient. Lymphology emerged in the 1930s in France from the work of Emil and Estrid Vodder. The strokes and sequences they developed culminate in lymphatic drainage, which has since become a widespread practice.
What is lymphatic drainage?
This form of lymphatic therapy involves gentle, rhythmic skin stretching to stimulate the lymph system. This system consists of lymph nodes and certain organs like the spleen, appendix and tonsils, as well as other tissues that transport the lymph fluid. This contains white blood cells that move around the body to fight infection and remove toxins from the body.
The stimulation that results from lymphatic drainage massage boosts the rate of lymph drainage into the circulatory system. The result is improved health throughout the body.
What are the primary benefits of lymphatic drainage massage?
Stimulating the lymphatic system is very beneficial for the body. Here are the specific benefits you can experience:
Improved gut health
The digestive system has to process a lot of outside material. Most people eat several times a day, and food can bring various bacteria and harmful substances into the body. There are lymphatic vessels in the digestive system, including in the small intestine. These detect potentially harmful bacteria travelling through the gut and deploy the immune system where required.
A lymph massage can keep this system moving along, reducing the risk of things like bloating and cramping, as well as the unpleasant natural urges that are consequences of food-borne illness.
Improved immune system
Your immune system defends against infectious organisms from outside the body. Your lymphatic system is on the front lines of the immune system. A lymph node massage can speed up the drainage so that lymphocytes and macrophages can be deployed quickly to remove invaders from the body. With regular lymphatic drainage massages, your defensive cell circulation will be optimised.
This means you may heal faster if you are sick. It also means your defences against virulent diseases is improved, protecting against things like colds and influenza as well as bacterial infections.
Reduces fluid retention
Fluid retention, otherwise known as edema, can happen for many reasons. It can happen as a result of pregnancy or something like taking a long flight. Important fluids that the circulatory system moves through capillaries can become trapped in the tissues, leading to swelling. Lymphatic massage can help drain these fluid build-ups.
The stretching and movements push the lymph out of the tissues and back into circulation. Deeper down, it also speeds up the internal circulation so that lymph circulates more quickly and fluids become less likely to settle.
Book your lymphatic drainage massage today
These are just some of the many benefits of this type of therapy. Massage has been around for millennia and remains an important, effective health practice. Through the fundamental process of skilled human touch, the mind and body can undergo healing.
Lymphatic drainage effects several systems in the body to boost lymph circulation and yield a range of health benefits for your body. Our aim is to improve your health from the inside out.
If you have any questions, or would like to book a massage in Jacobstowe today, contact Pippa’s Movement Therapy today.