Lymphatic Drainage Massage
The Lymphatic System is one of the main elimination channels in your body, along with the skin, lungs, kidneys and bowels. The Lymphatic System is a major route for the absorption of nutrients into the tissues and is your body’s metabolic waste-disposal system. It clears toxins, unwanted proteins and waste that can not be removed by any other means from your tissues and cells.
Major functions of the Lymphatic System include:
- Maintaining optimal connective tissue health
- Removing toxins from interstitial spaces
- Transporting lymphocytes and hormones throughout the body (immune reaction)
- Filtering harmful substances and bacterial infections
- Maintaining fluid balance in the tissue; and
- Recovering substances that have escaped into the tissue eg. proteins.
The Lymphatic System has no pump; instead, its function depends on muscle contractions, diaphramic breathing and body movements. Inactivity, poor diet and dehydration often cause sluggish lymphatic flow, which stresses the lymphatic system.
Lymphatic Drainage Massage is a light technique designed to stimulate circulation of lymph and speed up waste removal. It works wonderfully on the nervous system by reducing sympathetic activity, allowing para sympathetic activity, stimulating the immune system’s defenses and increasing the flow and volume of lymph fluid. People will often feel the results of Lymphatic Drainage for up to a week.
Lymphatic Drainage Massage is great for scars, stress, cellulite, stretch marks, detoxification, chronic fatigue, overweight, arthritis, neurological disorders, wellbeing, pregnancy and pain.