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LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE
WITH MYOFASCIAL
RELEASE AFTER SURGERY
By Deborah Karlan, L.M.T.
The tissue trauma caused by
cosmetic surgery and liposuction
responds to manual lymphatic
drainage with gentle myofascial
release. A protocol that combines
both gentle myofascial release and
lymph drainage is more effective
to relieve discomfort, swelling and
remove cellular debris than lymphatic
drainage alone. Traumatized fascia
tissues will interrupt lymph flow and
can cause reduced healing, fibrosis scar
tissue, dimpling and uneven skin.
I have discovered it is not enough to
just move the lymph after surgery, but
the fascia must be kept mobile and not
allowed to contract around the lymph
vessels restricting lymph flow. It is the
facial contraction after surgery that can
cause the development of hard and
fluid pockets.
The facial system is like a sweater,
over, around and throughout the body
system. Lymph drainage massage with
gentle myofascial release can stimulate
the opening of the lymphatic one-way
valves and increase the volume of
lymph flow by as much as 25 percent.
I start treatment one to two weeks
after the surgery with 10 treatments.
The preferred frequency of treatment
is, first week: three days in a row;
second week, three days every other
day; third and fourth week, two
treatments. More than 17 million
cosmetic surgeries are performed each
year. Manual Lymphatic Drainage and
myofascial release can speed recovery
and improve the results.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Deborah Karlan, L.M.T. has
been a licensed therapist in Florida since 1982.
Her Wellness From Within office is at 2158
Drew St. in Clearwater. Her information
website is dkarlan.com. For questions and
appointments and to find harmony and balance
with massage, please call (727) 641-8979.
FL License MA4487, Est. MM27138
ADVERTORIAL
accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award
for her late husband Richard Nader, as
other inductees Connie Francis, Tony
Orlando and Bobby Rydell were in
attendance.....Vinnie Luisi, director of the
Dunedin History Museum, presented this
year’s History Maker Award to the late
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Lisl Schick of Largo, a Holocaust
survivor, threw out the first pitch
at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg
in support of the Florida Holocaust
Museum during the museum’s third
annual “Rays Up Night,” when the
Tampa Bay Rays played the New York
Yankees. Schick, who was born in
1928 in Vienna, Austria, was sent to
England at age 11 to escape the Nazis
by traveling on a Kindertransport train
with her 7-year-old brother Walter.
COURTESY OF LISL SCHICK
John Hubbard’s family in his honor, the
Volunteer of the Year Award to Regina
Tyler, and Young Historian Awards to
Sarah Rider and Charlotte Mills during
the museum’s annual picnic, which
included a talk by Jerry Willoughby, a
third-generation Dunedin resident. 9
Gale Warshauer and her husband Howard,
president of Clearwater Community
Gardens, in the city’s downtown Gateway
neighborhood, welcomed supporters to
“Edible Flowers and Landscapes,” the
group’s fifth annual Summer Brunch benefit,
which he emceed at the historic Fort Harrison
in Clearwater with brunch and musical
entertainment donated by the Church of
Scientology, and guest speakers Sheridan
Boyle, sustainability coordinator for the
City of Clearwater, and Rebecca Tasetano
of Sarasota.
Al Wiseman and Louise Collins
hosted a birthday dinner party for
him at their newly remodeled home in
Tarpon Springs, where Mary K Wilson
played his 1800s square grand piano to
accompany guests, including herself
and husband John.
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