Post-surgical lymphatic drainage
Recovery is
its own season.
Gentle manual lymphatic drainage for the weeks after surgery — slow, hands-on work that helps you feel more comfortable while your body does what it is already doing. Supportive recovery care, never a replacement for your surgeon’s instructions.
High Point, NCserving the TriadIn person, by appointment.
Light, rhythmic, unhurried — and always with your surgeon’s guidance alongside it.
What it is,
plainly.
After surgery, your body moves fluid differently for a while. Swelling and tightness are a normal part of healing, and they can be uncomfortable to carry around.
Manual lymphatic drainage is a very gentle, hands-on technique that works with the body’s own drainage pathways. In practical terms: soft, rhythmic pressure, a slow pace, and a quiet room. People often describe it as calming rather than clinical.
It is meant to help you feel more comfortable and more like yourself while you heal. It is supportive care — not a treatment for any condition, and not a substitute for the medical care your surgeon provides.
A clear boundary
This is not medical treatment, and it does not replace your surgeon’s care or your follow-up appointments. Bring their instructions with you, and keep taking any question about your healing to them first. What I offer is comfortable, supportive, recovery-friendly care alongside that.
What to expect
Five things that are true of every drainage session, whoever you are and whatever you had done.
01
It starts with a consultation
Nothing begins on the table. We talk first — what you had done, how far along you are in recovery, what feels uncomfortable, and what your surgeon has told you to expect. If this is not the right time for it, I will say so.
02
Your surgeon leads
Your surgeon’s instructions come first, and I work alongside them rather than around them. Bring their guidance with you, including anything they have said about when bodywork is appropriate — we plan around that, not ahead of it.
03
Gentle, hands-on, unhurried
The work itself is slow and light — soft, rhythmic pressure along the paths your body already uses to drain. It is not deep tissue work and it is not meant to be. Most people find it restful.
04
Paced to how you feel
You are the one who knows how your body is doing that day. Pressure, position and pace adjust to you, and we stop whenever you want to. There is no schedule to keep up with here.
05
Comfortable afterwards
It is designed to be something you can go home from and rest. I will tell you plainly what to expect afterwards, and what to do if anything feels off — and to call your surgeon rather than wait on me.
Alongside everything else
One practice,
three kinds of care.
Lymphatic drainage sits next to the contouring and the coaching here, and it can be the only thing you come in for. Some people arrive straight from surgery and never book anything else. That is exactly how it should work.
If you are further along and thinking about contouring once your surgeon clears you, that conversation can wait until you are ready for it.
Recovery care
01Post-Surgical Lymphatic DrainageA gentler, more careful manual drainage technique for clients recovering from a procedure.
Post-surgical lymphatic drainage is a gentler, more careful version of manual lymphatic drainage — a gentle, specialized massage technique designed to encourage the movement of lymphatic fluid through the body's lymphatic system. It is used after a procedure to help ease swelling and to help you feel more comfortable day to day. It is always started with a consultation and done alongside whatever your surgeon advises; their guidance comes first.
How many sessions you have depends on your surgeon’s guidance and how your recovery is going. We work that out together at your consultation — nothing is booked in advance of it.
See the full price listTalk it through first.
The consultation is free, and it is where we check that this is appropriate for where you are in recovery. Bring your surgeon’s instructions — and bring your questions.