Aesthetic osteopathy and lymphatic drainage at home. Exercises

It often takes a lot of effort to maintain the natural beauty of the body. Sometimes the lack of proper exercise and sedentary lifestyle can lead to disorders of the lymphatic system, and this is expressed externally: swelling, excess weight and more. To bring yourself in order, you can turn to the help of aesthetic osteopathy. It is aimed at restoring normal blood flow and outflow, eliminating tension and removing clamps in the body.

We talked to Anastasia Tabina, a specialist in aesthetic osteopathy at the OSTEOPOLICLINIC Medical Center, and found out how to keep your body toned, what water you should drink and how osteopathic intervention can affect your physical activity.

– What indications does aesthetic osteopathy work with?

– For example, when a person has complaints about their appearance that they want to correct in more physiological, natural ways. Some people want to improve their health, others want to change their appearance – the methods of influence are often the same. If we are talking about the visual beauty of the body, it is most often the removal of swelling, elimination of changes in the body after childbirth.

We can correct some muscle imbalance: posture, restore the anterior abdominal wall, restore the pelvic floor muscles and align the pelvis after childbirth, improve the function of all organs. There are also ways of both tummy tuck and breast lift. We use both osteopathic techniques and kinesiotaping. It is clear that the effect will not be as significant as after surgery, but it will be in any case. Especially in tandem with training.

– What processes can osteopathic intervention help to accelerate?

– First of all to improve health in general. If a person has an incorrectly aligned spine, incorrect muscle symmetry, and in this form he starts to actively engage in sports, it can greatly harm him. Because all systems of the body will be in a tense state and a person will be worse adapted to any physical activity. The less tension in the body, which we remove with the help of osteopathy, the more physiological the load will be, the better the result will be – whether it is professional sport, semi-professional or any fitness.

– The same lymphatic drainage massage should be done once every three days. As for osteopathy, how often should you visit the doctor?

– Everything is very individualized. For a person who has practically no swelling, one or two sessions are enough to start the lymph flow, because there is no stagnation in the tissues. If there is some swelling caused by venous insufficiency, lymphostasis, then it is quite a long series of procedures. It can be carried out at intervals every other day, and it is 10-12 sessions. Everything is individual and depends on the patient’s desire. For aesthetic effect, when a person does not want to work out, and wants to just “squeeze” his legs, three or four sessions are enough.

– Do these three procedures also need to be attended at regular intervals?

– Yes, at least once a week. If less often, we lose the cumulative effect.

– How can a person maintain his condition after a session with an osteopath, when he has already started the lymph flow, “squeezed” tissues? Do we drink a certain amount of water or according to our needs?

– On the one hand, we drink water according to our needs. There is an average amount – 30 ml per kilogram. But this amount takes into account all the liquid that a person consumes. If you look at pure water, it is not so much: if a person also drinks coffee, tea, and juice, then pure water is about a liter a day, sometimes half a liter.

What is important in terms of water: many people are now installing a purification system. This filter often removes a large number of trace elements from the water, and the water turns out as if “distilled”. It has fewer trace elements than regular tap water. This water goes into the tissues, there is retained by the gradient of salt concentration and can cause swelling. Therefore, when we go through a series of lymphatic drainage procedures, I recommend that patients add alkaline mineral water to their diet. It is not the gas that is important, but the composition of the water. It can be Borjomi, Essentuki. Not even the acidity itself is important, but the presence of salts.

– I have heard that people drink water in the morning and add lemon to it to alkalize it. If you add lemon, does it change the properties of the water?

– Yes, it does. But I recommend to choose more on the salt composition. In general, good lymphatic drainage is walking and swimming, and people who do not have special problems, it is enough for the lymph flow to be normal. There are separate exercises that help to start the lymph flow. They are simple, performed at a slow pace.

Top 3 exercises to open venous outflow pathways

Exercise 1. Technique: slowly raise the shoulders to the ears and slowly lower. Repeat 3-5 times.

Exercise 2. Execution technique: with an inhalation bring the shoulders back, connect the shoulder blades. With an exhalation bring the shoulders forward. Repeat 3-5 times.

Exercise 3. Rotation of the shoulders back and forward. Repeat 3-5 times.