Your lymphatic system does more than most people realize.
The lymphatic system is one of the body's most essential — and most overlooked — systems for healing, immunity, and overall well-being. It moves fluid, filters waste, supports immune function, and plays a central role in how the body recovers from illness, surgery, inflammation, and stress.
When it's functioning well, you feel lighter, clearer, and more at ease. When it's sluggish or overwhelmed — whether from surgery, chronic inflammation, autoimmune conditions, nervous system dysregulation, or the cumulative load of daily life — the body holds on to fluid, swelling, and discomfort in ways that can be hard to ignore.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) at Heeling Hands is gentle, highly specialized therapeutic work designed to support the body's natural ability to move fluid, reduce swelling and inflammation, calm the nervous system, support immune function, and encourage healing from the inside out.
When it's functioning well, you feel lighter, clearer, and more at ease. When it's sluggish or overwhelmed — whether from surgery, chronic inflammation, autoimmune conditions, nervous system dysregulation, or the cumulative load of daily life — the body holds on to fluid, swelling, and discomfort in ways that can be hard to ignore.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) at Heeling Hands is gentle, highly specialized therapeutic work designed to support the body's natural ability to move fluid, reduce swelling and inflammation, calm the nervous system, support immune function, and encourage healing from the inside out.
What a Lymphatic Drainage session feels like.
Lymphatic Drainage Therapy is unlike a traditional massage in almost every way. The work is slow, rhythmic, and deeply intentional — using light, precise pressure that follows the pathways of the lymphatic system to encourage fluid movement back toward the heart and through the body's natural filtration process.
Sessions are deeply restorative. There is no deep pressure, no intense muscle work — just careful, purposeful contact that supports the body's own intelligence. For many clients it feels profoundly calming, activating the parasympathetic nervous system — the body's rest and digest response — in a way that few other therapies do.
Most clients notice a sense of lightness, reduced puffiness, and improved ease during or immediately after their session. For post-surgical clients, sessions are carefully adapted to your stage of healing and any protocols from your surgical or medical team.
Sessions are deeply restorative. There is no deep pressure, no intense muscle work — just careful, purposeful contact that supports the body's own intelligence. For many clients it feels profoundly calming, activating the parasympathetic nervous system — the body's rest and digest response — in a way that few other therapies do.
Most clients notice a sense of lightness, reduced puffiness, and improved ease during or immediately after their session. For post-surgical clients, sessions are carefully adapted to your stage of healing and any protocols from your surgical or medical team.
What this therapy may support.
Lymphatic Drainage Therapy at Heeling Hands is used to support a wide range of needs — not just post-surgical recovery. Sessions may help with:
Post-surgical swelling and recovery · Inflammation and chronic inflammatory conditions · Autoimmune symptom support · Nervous system regulation and parasympathetic activation · Chronic puffiness, fluid retention, and heaviness · Immune system support and general wellness · Recovery after illness, medical treatment, or prolonged stress · Overall sense of lightness, ease, and restored energy.
Post-surgical swelling and recovery · Inflammation and chronic inflammatory conditions · Autoimmune symptom support · Nervous system regulation and parasympathetic activation · Chronic puffiness, fluid retention, and heaviness · Immune system support and general wellness · Recovery after illness, medical treatment, or prolonged stress · Overall sense of lightness, ease, and restored energy.
Specialized support for post-surgical recovery.
Lymphatic drainage is one of the most commonly recommended therapies following surgery — and one of the most effective tools for supporting swelling reduction, scar tissue mobility, and overall recovery comfort. At Heeling Hands we work with clients recovering from a wide range of procedures including:
Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery · Orthopedic and abdominal procedures · Breast surgery · Facial and neck procedures · And more
If you've been referred by your surgeon or are researching lymphatic drainage as part of your recovery, we encourage you to check with your surgical team about timing — and reach out to us with any questions before booking. We're happy to help you understand what to expect and when to begin.
Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery · Orthopedic and abdominal procedures · Breast surgery · Facial and neck procedures · And more
If you've been referred by your surgeon or are researching lymphatic drainage as part of your recovery, we encourage you to check with your surgical team about timing — and reach out to us with any questions before booking. We're happy to help you understand what to expect and when to begin.
Lymphatic Drainage Therapy is ideal for:
Post-surgical and post-procedure clients · Those managing chronic inflammation or autoimmune conditions · Clients experiencing swelling, puffiness, or fluid retention · Anyone seeking nervous system support and parasympathetic restoration · Those recovering from illness, treatment, or prolonged stress · Clients looking for gentle, restorative therapeutic care.
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60 min — $150
75 min — $185
90 min — $225
120 min — $285
60 min — $150
75 min — $185
90 min — $225
120 min — $285
Note: Therapeutic Care Series packages available — 5 or 10 session series across any service. Ongoing lymphatic support is one of the strongest uses of the series, particularly for post-surgical clients in active recovery.
Not sure if lymphatic drainage is right for where you are? We're happy to help you figure it out.
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