310: Gua Sha, Jade Rollers, and Lymphatic Massage, Are They All Worth It?

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

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4.9 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Jade rollers, Gua sha's, and lymphatic massage, the keys to de-puffing your face. On today’s episode, Dr. Kay is joined by Kathleen Lisson (@kathleenlisson), a board-certified therapeutic masseuse, Certified Lymphedema Therapist, and author of Plastic Surgery Recovery Handbook, to discuss the benefits of lymphatic massage and the key to a successful plastic surgery recovery. Lymphatic drainage massage is a gentle massage that encourages the movement of lymph fluids throughout and around the body. The fluid within the lymphatic system then works to remove waste and toxins from bodily tissues and helps the system perform more effectively! Dr. Kay(@beautybydrkay) gets Kathleen to share all her top tricks and techniques to apply lymphatic massages after a plastic surgery procedure and in your everyday life as well. Did you know that there are certain foods and drinks that make your face puffier? Dr. Kay and Kathleen list a couple of the most common ones and what you should do in the morning after eating them. Listen in on today’s podcast and get all the tips, tricks, and tools you need to have a healthy surgery recovery and how to start incorporating lymphatic massages into your self care routine!

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0:00.0	Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon.
0:22.2	And today on our podcast, we're going to learn about lymphatic massage. If you are not already doing this,
0:27.5	you need to be doing this. And I have an expert here. So Kathleen is a board certified
0:34.6	therapeutic massage and bodywork specialist. She's a lymphedema therapist. She owns
0:40.1	solace massage therapy and mindfulness over in San Diego and is the author of the Plastic
0:45.6	Surgery Recovery Handbook. Welcome. Welcome, Kathleen. Thank you so much. Thank you. This is so
0:51.3	exciting for me to learn about lymphatic massage from a specialist who does it day in and day out because I'm such a huge believer, but they don't ever teach you this stuff in med school.
1:01.6	Maybe you didn't know that.
1:02.8	We learn about the lymphatic system.
1:04.7	We have to know the anatomy of it, but we don't learn functionally how important it is for drainage patterns for the face, the neck, and the body.
1:12.5	So what got you into doing lymphatic massage? Yep. I actually had a different direction when I
1:19.7	wanted to go to massage school, but the second I learned that you can do perform massage for
1:26.4	people after a cancer diagnosis, I was absolutely hooked. My mother
1:31.1	actually had a breast cancer diagnosis when I was nine. And that was back in the 80s when,
1:37.1	you know, they thought maybe massage would spread cancer. So going back into massage school in
1:43.1	the second career as an adult and finding out that I can help people the way people helped my mom when I was just a little girl was really exciting.
1:53.0	So lymphedema is a side effect of cancer treatment and that's when the limb that's close to where lymph nodes were removed for biopsy or
2:02.7	chemotherapy or radiation will swell because the lymphatic system is impaired.
2:08.4	So MLD or manual lymphatic drainage is the type of massage that you use to help the lymphatic
2:14.2	system perform more effectively.
2:20.3	And the great thing is that this massage that I was taught to help people after a cancer diagnosis also really helps people after
2:25.8	plastic surgery as well. And I think it's important to emphasize, too, that lymphatic massage
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