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30/06/2025

Pilates can offer a range of benefits for individuals with lipoedema. While Pilates doesn’t cure lipoedema, it can help manage symptoms and improve overall well-being while contributing to an active lifestyle without triggering pain flare-ups.

Here are the key benefits:

🔹 1. Improved Lymphatic Flow
Pilates encourages gentle, rhythmic movements that can help stimulate lymphatic circulation and reduce fluid build-up.

🔹 2. Reduced Pain and Discomfort
The low-impact nature of Pilates reduces strain on joints and muscles while helping improve muscle balance and alignment, which may reduce discomfort.

🔹 3. Increased Strength and Muscle Tone
Pilates helps strengthen the deep stabilising muscles, especially the core, glutes, and thighs. Building muscle can help support the affected limbs better and improve overall body function without overloading the joints.

🔹 4. Improved Mobility and Flexibility
Pilates emphasises controlled, full-range movements, which can enhance joint mobility and tissue elasticity.

🔹 5. Postural Alignment and Balance
Lipoedema can affect posture and movement patterns due to changes in body shape and discomfort. Pilates trains body awareness and alignment, helping reduce compensatory movements and supporting better posture.

🔹 6. Mental Health and Body Image
Pilates promotes a mind-body connection, reduces stress, and can improve confidence and body awareness in a non-judgmental environment.

We offer clinical Pilates classes of mat and reformer.
Wanting to know more?

Call us on 5625 1631 📞

25/06/2025

Exercise and Lipoedema?

For managing lipoedema, the best exercises are low-impact, lymphatic-stimulating activities that help reduce pain, improve mobility, support circulation, and avoid over-straining the joints.

🏊Swimming / Hydrotherapy
Why: Water supports your weight, reducing joint stress, while providing resistance for muscle tone and lymphatic flow.
Try water aerobics, gentle swimming, or walking laps in a pool.

🚶‍♀️Walking
Why: Promotes circulation and is easy on the joints.

🚴🏻‍♀️Cycling (Stationary or Outdoor)
Why: Low impact and helps build leg strength without putting pressure on joints.

🧘‍♀️Pilates/ yoga
Why: Improves flexibility, posture, and muscle strength.

Tips for Exercising with Lipoedema:
🔵Compression garments during and after exercise may reduce discomfort and swelling.
🔵Always warm up and cool down properly.
🔵Listen to your body, rest if you're in pain or fatigued.

19/06/2025

As part of the support and guidance offered by our practitioners, you will receive practical self-management tips for living with lipoedema. Although self-management cannot cure the condition, it can play a key role in easing symptoms, slowing progression, and enhancing overall quality of life 💫

🏃‍♀️ 1. Exercise
Low-impact movement is best.
*Avoid high-impact or overly strenuous activities that can cause pain or bruising.

🥗 2. Nutrition
While lipoedema fat is resistant to diet alone, nutrition still plays a role.
Recommended:
-Focus on whole foods
-Limit sugar, processed foods, and salt – all may exacerbate swelling.
-Stay hydrated: supports lymphatic and metabolic function.
*Consider:Keeping a food diary to monitor what helps or worsens symptoms.

🧦 3. Compression Therapy
Compression garments can reduce pain, swelling, and prevent fluid build up.

🤲 4. Self Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD)
A gentle massage technique that stimulates lymph flow.
-Some techniques can be self-administered once trained.

🛀 5. Skin Care
-Moisturise daily to prevent dryness and cracking.
-Monitor for infections or skin changes.

🧠 6. Mental Health Support
Lipoedema often leads to emotional distress due to body image, pain, and misdiagnosis.
-Join support groups (online or local).
-Educate yourself and your loved ones to reduce stigma.

🩺 7. Monitoring and Tracking
-Take regular photos and measurements to track progression.
-Keep a symptom diary – note pain, swelling, diet, exercise, and energy levels.

17/06/2025

Managing lipoedema from a practitioner’s perspective involves a multidisciplinary, patient-centered approach focused on symptom control, improving quality of life, and slowing disease progression.

Here's a brief breakdown of lipoedema management from a clinical practice standpoint:
🦋Assessment & diagnosis
🦋Patient education & support
🦋Conservative management
🦋Pain and symptom management
🦋Monitoring & reviews
🦋Advocacy & resources

Wanting to know more on how we can help you?
Call us on 5625 1631 📞

13/06/2025

Early diagnosis of lipoedema is essential to stop progression, reduce complications, avoid misdiagnosis, and improve patient outcomes. It leads to more effective, personalised care and offers patients a greater chance of maintaining a good quality of life.

Early symptoms typically appear during hormonal changes. Key indicators include:
🔵Symmetrical fat accumulation - on the legs and sometimes arms, sparing the hands and feet.
🔵Pain or tenderness in the fat-affected areas, even when lightly touched.
🔵Easy bruising without significant trauma.
🔵Cold, soft, and doughy skin texture in affected areas.
🔵Disproportion between upper and lower body - often with a narrow waist and wide hips/legs.
🔵Minimal response to diet or exercise

Lipoedema is best diagnosed by a healthcare provider experienced in the condition such as a lymphoedema/ lipoedema therapist or a GP who has knowledge about this condition 💫

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11/06/2025

Lipoedema is different from normal fat both in appearance and biological behaviour. ⬆️

If you're concerned about lipoedema, especially if you notice painful, resistant fat in your legs or arms, consult a specialist for a proper diagnosis.
Early treatment can help manage symptoms and prevent progression.

Get in touch with us to find out how we can help you 👉

05/06/2025

2025 Lipoedema Conference 💜💕

A conference ran over 3 days on all things lipoedema from lived experience, research and innovation.

You can attend in person or virtually. 💻
Tickets are currently on sale - head on over to Lipoedema Australia lipoedemaaustralia to find out more 💫

03/06/2025

💙 June is Lipoedema awareness month 💜

Lipoedema affects at least 11% of women.
Awareness for this condition is VERY important as it is often misdiagnosed or mistaken for lymphoedema or obesity, meaning a number of cases go undiagnosed.

We are raising our voice to help shape the future of lipoedema care

02/06/2025

🎗️ Why Choose a Practitioner Trained in Oncology Rehab?
Cancer changes the body — and so should the way we care for it.
Seeing a practitioner trained in oncology rehabilitation means you’re getting expert support tailored to the unique physical, emotional and functional challenges that come with cancer treatment.
👩‍⚕️ Whether it’s:
Managing fatigue
Preventing or treating lymphoedema
Regaining strength and mobility
Easing pain or scar tightness
Navigating chemo brain or nerve changes…you deserve care that’s safe, evidence-based, and truly understands what you’re going through.
🔍 Oncology rehab practitioners know how to work with your medical team, support you through every stage — from diagnosis to survivorship — and help you get back to doing what matters most.
📞 Don’t settle for a one-size-fits-all approach. Ask if your provider is trained in oncology rehabilitation.
Because recovery isn’t just about surviving — it’s about living well. 💛

02/06/2025

🎗️ Cancer Rehab: Supporting You Beyond Treatment 🎗️
Cancer rehabilitation is more than just recovery — it’s about thriving after treatment.
Whether you're dealing with fatigue, pain, lymphoedema, mobility challenges or emotional changes, cancer rehab can help restore function, boost confidence, and improve your quality of life. 💪
As trained rehab professionals, we work with you to manage side effects and support your goals — no matter where you are in your cancer journey.
👣 Small steps can lead to big changes. You don’t have to walk this path alone.
📞 Reach out today to learn more about how personalised cancer rehab can help you live well during and after treatment.

02/06/2025

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉
Kaleisha our Accredited Lymphoedema Practitioner and Clinical Myotherapist had officially completed the PINC Cancer Rehabilitation training — an internationally recognised program designed to support women recovering from cancer.
This specialised training equips her to deliver tailored rehabilitation that helps improve strength, mobility, and quality of life during and after cancer treatment. Whether it's post-surgical rehab, fatigue management, or restoring confidence through movement, this program allows her to provide care that’s not only effective but empowering 💪🏻
If you or someone you know could benefit from cancer rehabilitation, please feel free to reach out. Kate our physiotherapist who has completed the exact same course, will be offering this service ensuring continuity of care and support for anyone needing cancer rehab during this time while Kaleisha is on Maternity leave.

29/05/2025

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