When the drains in your house don’t function properly, disaster awaits. The same can be said for your body’s lymphatic drainage system. If it doesn’t function properly, fluid retention can occur, leaving your cells to bathe in toxins and cellular muck while making you feel bloated and tired.
At Anushka Spa, Salon, and Cosmedical Centre, our Brazilian lymphatic drainage massage in West Palm Beach sets a new standard for helping your lymphatic system move fluid and toxins through and out of your body. Request a consultation via our online booking tool to talk one-on-one about the fluid retention you’ve experienced.
Read on to discover how the Brazilian method can elevate the therapeutic results of lymphatic drainage massage.
When Lymphatic Drainage Becomes Impaired
A lymphatic system that doesn’t remove excess fluid from various tissues can lead to undue swelling. The lymph, a watery fluid that circulates through your lymphatic system, can become backed up and overburdened with unwanted fats, dead or damaged cells, and bacteria and viruses that your body is trying to expel.
The backed-up lymph also slows the delivery of plasma. This plasma carries oxygen, nutrients, proteins, and regenerative platelets to your cells.
This accumulation can lead to lymphedema, causing symptoms including:
- Bloating
- Heaviness/fullness sensation
- Movement pain
- Clothing discomfort
- Achiness
- Unwanted skin changes
- Fatigue
- Aggravated appearance of cellulite
Lymphatic Drainage Massage Eases Bloat
This specialized form of massage manipulates tissues to help push the excess fluid toward nearby lymph nodes. There, they filter the lymph, discarding byproducts for waste removal and returning the refreshed lymph to your bloodstream. This works exceptionally well for fluid retention reduction, and as a general detoxification massage for improved wellness.
Lymphatic drainage massage in West Palm Beach also stimulates circulation of fresh lymph, containing vital nutrients for cellular function along with white blood cells to help fight infections.
What to Expect
For a manual lymphatic drainage massage, you start by changing from your everyday clothes into one of our luxurious robe and slipper sets. Then let a lounger relax you as you enjoy Anushka’s refreshments, including infused waters, teas, and nutritious treats.
When your spa suite is ready, your massage therapist leads you there, helping you settle in comfortably while introducing you to our premier-quality oils, scrubs, moisturizers, and essential aroma essences.
For your lymphatic massage, your massage therapist applies strategic and rhythmic pressure, using gentle motions with their hands and forearms, as needed, to position, stretch, and move skin and its underlying tissues.
All movements follow your body’s natural lymphatic flow, so that the excess fluids move into lymphatic vessels and arrive at lymph nodes for filtering and renewal. This relaxing therapeutic massage helps you:
- Detox
- De-bloat
- Recharge
- Rejuvenate
Lymphatic Massage vs Brazilian Lymphatic Drainage Massage
In West Palm Beach, we have clients who choose our standard lymphatic massage as described above, and others who choose the more vigorous Brazilian lymphatic massage.
This begs the question: what is the difference between lymphatic massage and Brazilian lymphatic drainage? Understanding the distinction can help you determine which best suits your unique situation.
The Brazilian Difference for Lymphatic Massage
For clients who need more intensive therapy, Brazilian lymphatic drainage performs many of the same massage movements as our standard lymphatic massage—but often with more pressure, and more vigorous, rhythmic strokes. In essence, it combines lymphatic massage with Brazilian body sculpting techniques.
Mixing lighter strokes with more intensified massage, the Brazilian method delivers an extended category of results. Brazilian lymphatic drainage massage in West Palm Beach reaches deeper layers of tissue, including localized fat deposits. It can help to break up that fat, for results that include:
- Improved body contours
- Reduced cellulite appearance
- Improved myofascial release
- Enhanced skin appearance
More Reasons to Choose the Brazilian Lymphatic Massage Technique
Beyond how this massage therapy supports the lymphatic system, benefits can be targeted for specific health improvements.
Post-Surgical Recovery
Approved by physicians, Brazilian lymphatic drainage massage in West Palm Beach helps clients heal after surgery by:
- Reducing swelling and inflammation
- Improving circulation
- Detoxifying tissue
- Enhancing immune function
A study of breast cancer surgery patients showed that lymphatic massage therapy delivered a 57% average reduction in arm volume (post-surgical lymphedema). This included significant improvements during recovery, such as:
- Better movement/function
- Reduced fatigue/tiredness
- Diminished nausea/vomiting
- Lessened pain/achiness
It can also positively affect the appearance of cosmetic surgery issues such as lumps, rippling, and indentations.
Scar Reduction
Brazilian lymphatic massage also helps minimize the appearance of scar tissue. This more vigorous tissue manipulation helps to break down the more fibrous tissue of scars and soften them. Pliability improves, making scars less apt to dimple and pull at skin during daily movement.
Improved Digestion
When applied to the abdomen, the massage therapist’s strategic, rhythmic movements glide across the skin and press deeper in such a way to promote muscle contractions in the gut. This helps move food through your system while supporting more comfortable digestion.
Before and After Your Brazilian Lymphatic Drainage Massage
We recommend some simple, specific dos and don’ts to make your experience and your results the best they can be.
Pre-Massage Recommendations
- Don’t eat heavy meals for 30 to 60 minutes prior to your appointment. We welcome you to enjoy the tasteful delights we offer to help “tide you over.”
- Wear comfortable, loose clothing to your appointment. Though you will change into a robe and slippers, Brazilian lymphatic massage may temporarily leave your skin more sensitive.
- Hydrate well before your appointment.
Post-Massage Recommendations
- Avoid heavy, filling meals or snacks for up to an hour after your session for comfort.
- Drink plenty of water to help your system flush out the rest of those toxins.
- Avoid strenuous exercise for a few days—but do walk and perform some light stretching.
Enjoy Upgrades to Your Brazilian Massage Experience
At Anushka, experience is everything. We provide options that make the most of your time here, elevating your appointment to new levels of elegant—and effective—self-care.
Upgrade your Brazilian lymphatic drainage massage in West Palm Beach with these Anushka choices:
- Aromatherapy. As the massage therapist engages your tissues, let essential oils engage your sense of smell for stress reduction, relaxation, and mood enhancement.
- Herbal Oil. When added to your lymphatic massage, herbal oils can deliver pain and inflammation relief along with skin nourishment while also stimulating your senses.
- Himalayan Salt Stone. The ultimate in soothing relaxation, adding Himalayan salt stone therapy deeply relaxes muscles while increasing circulation.
- Compression Gun. Also known as a percussion massage gun, this therapy tool introduces focused kinetic energy to specific points, releasing tensions more rapidly and deeply.
- Red Light Therapy. As a pre- or post-addition to Brazilian lymphatic drainage massage in West Palm Beach, our fully immersive red light therapy relaxes while giving skin that youthful “glow.”
What Is the Lymphatic System? A Deeper Dive.
Your lymphatic drainage system comprises a network of organs, vessels, and tissues that maintain a healthy balance of fluids throughout your body. They cleanse and move lymph back into your bloodstream for redistribution.
Parts of the Lymphatic System
The lymphatic system includes:
Lymphatic Capillaries
These specialized capillaries draw out interstitial lymph and transport it to the lymph nodes for filtering and cleansing. Eventually, this lymph returns to the bloodstream for reuse.
Lymph Nodes
These bean-shaped glands cleanse the lymph before returning it to the bloodstream. You can usually feel lymph nodes in your neck, armpits, and groin, but don’t let this fool you. Your body has around 600 of these custodial glands cleansing lymph of damaged cells—even cancer cells.
Thymus
This organ is located in your upper chest beneath your breastbone, and it’s most active before puberty. It’s where T-cells (a type of white blood cell) fully mature. T-cells help your body fight off invaders.
Spleen
The spleen is your largest lymphatic organ, above your stomach on the left side of your rib cage. This organ filters blood and lymph, removing malfunctioning or aging cells. It also stores red blood cells and platelets to supply your body as needed.
How Lymph Arrives in Tissue
Your circulatory system’s capillaries contain microscopic holes in their walls. As your heart pumps blood through these capillaries, lymph (in the form of plasma) exits through these holes and into the interstitial spaces between tissue cells.
Here, lymph delivers oxygen and nutrients while clearing the area of toxins, damaged or dangerous cells, bacteria, and viruses. Lymph also incorporates excess fluid in these interstitial spaces that remained unabsorbed by surrounding tissues.
How often should you get a Brazilian lymphatic drainage massage?
The frequency of appointments for Brazilian lymphatic drainage massage in West Palm Beach depends on your goals and your doctor’s recommendation, where applicable.
Scheduling examples include:
- For surgery recovery, clients regularly schedule 1 to 5 appointments a week.
- Body-sculpters schedule an appointment every 2 weeks, on average.
- For de-bloating and general wellness, clients ask for monthly appointments.
Speak to your Anushka massage therapist for a recommended schedule of massage sessions.
Get Back in Circulation
Stimulate your body’s natural detox mechanism to reduce swelling, improve health, and look and feel better! Best of all, do it in a relaxing environment that makes you feel red-carpet worthy.
Request a consultation via our online booking tool, and let’s drain away your stress for a beautiful day—and a beautiful you.
About Anushka Spa & Salon
In 1974, Anushka’s success story began as a small but elegant med spa in New York’s Upper East Side, offering high-quality, well-researched beauty solutions.
Now located in beautiful West Palm Beach, Anushka offers 12,000 luxurious square feet of exquisite salon, spa, and cosmedical services. Still led by a globally recognized beacon of self-improvement, Anushka stays on the cutting edge of exceptional treatments and effective results.
