Manual Lymphatic Drainage has powerful cleansing, relaxing, pain relieving and immunological effects. Using gentle, rhythmic massage techniques it can be applied to a wide range of pathologies to great effect.

Primarily, MLD promotes the flow of lymph and the functioning of lymph vessels that lead in to the circulatory system. It effectively facilitates the removal of metabolic wastes, excess water, toxins, bacteria and foreign substances from tissue via the initial lymph vessels and the venous capillaries.

MLD is extremely gentle and very relaxing (many patients have either fallen asleep or settled into a highly relaxed state), however due to the effectiveness of the treatment it is recommended that a first session be no longer than 30minutes.

Courses of MLD treatment are highly recommended in order to progressively build up the length of an individual session.

TCHC Therapist: Stephanie Blake, Sarah Bartram