HRB Therapies

09/12/2025

01/12/2025

✨ Understanding Fibrosis: When the Body’s “Scar Tissue” Starts to Steal Your Flow

By Bianca Botha, CLT, RLD, MLDT, CDS – Lymphatica

Fibrosis is one of the most misunderstood conditions in the world of lymphatic health.
We often hear about “hard tissue,” “thick skin,” “lumps,” or that feeling of a tight, stuck area that won’t respond to diet or exercise.

But fibrosis is not just “hard fat.”
It’s not “stubborn weight.”
It’s not “just how your body is.”

Fibrosis is a biological response — the body’s attempt to protect itself… that slowly becomes the very thing that holds you back from healing.

Let’s break this down clearly.

🌿 What Is Fibrosis?

Fibrosis is the formation of excess collagen and scar-like tissue in the body.
It happens when the tissues are repeatedly inflamed, injured, compressed, or stagnant.

Think of fibrosis as the body laying bricks to “reinforce” an area that feels threatened.

But over time?

Those bricks turn into walls — blocking circulation, blocking lymph flow, blocking healing.

🔬 Why Does Fibrosis Happen?

Fibrosis forms through 4 key mechanisms:

1. Chronic Inflammation

When inflammation stays high for too long, fibroblasts begin building collagen aggressively.
Your body thinks it’s protecting you.

Instead, it begins trapping inflammation inside the tissue.

2. Lymphatic Stagnation

When lymph can’t drain properly, proteins and cellular waste accumulate.
This “protein-rich soup” hardens over time.

Fibrosis is essentially stagnant lymph that turned solid.

3. Repeated Compression or Pressure

Tight clothing
Sitting too long
Sleeping on one side
Post-surgical swelling
Fibrotic cellulite
Poor posture

All these create micro-pressure that slowly remodels the tissue into a hardened structure.

4. Trauma or Surgery

After any incision or injury, the body immediately starts layering collagen.
If lymphatic drainage is slow, fibrosis becomes thick, raised, and long-lasting.

⚠️ Common Places Fibrosis Shows Up
• Arms after mastectomy
• Abdomen after C-section or hysterectomy
• Thighs and hips
• Underarms / bra line
• Ankles and calves
• After liposuction or fat-transfer surgery
• Around old injuries or scars
• In areas of chronic cellulite

Anywhere lymph slows… fibrosis follows.

💧 How Fibrosis Affects Your Body

Fibrosis doesn’t just change the texture of your skin.
It affects your entire physiology:

🔸 Blocks lymphatic drainage

→ causing swelling, heaviness + puffiness
→ making inflammation chronic

🔸 Restricts blood flow

→ less oxygen
→ poor healing
→ cold, numb or painful areas

🔸 Traps toxins and metabolic waste

→ the tissue becomes congested
→ you feel “stuck” or “blocked” in that area

🔸 Alters nerve signals

→ tightness, burning, tingling, soreness
→ reduced mobility or stiffness

🔸 Slows weight loss

Because the tissue becomes “sealed,” fat and lymph cannot move freely.

Fibrosis is one of the biggest hidden reasons people say:

“I’m doing everything… but nothing is shifting.”

🌙 Can Fibrosis Be Improved or Reversed?

YES — but only through a combination of methods, not one single tool.

The key is to soften, mobilize, hydrate, and drain.

⭐ 1. Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD)

Softens the tissue
Moves protein-rich lymph
Opens pathways
Releases pressure on capillaries

⭐ 2. Fascia Release

Fibrosis is tied deeply into the fascial network.
Freeing fascia = freeing the lymph.

⭐ 3. Heat + Hydration

Warmth increases elasticity
Water thins the lymph
Together they “melt” density in tissues

⭐ 4. Compression (correct usage)

Not tight — supportive
Helps prevent re-hardening
Promotes fluid movement

⭐ 5. Anti-inflammatory Lifestyle

What you eat becomes the quality of your tissues.
Your lymph is the reflection of your inflammation.

⭐ 6. Movement

Nothing aggressive.
Simple walking, breathwork, vibrational movement, gentle mobility.

Movement = muscle pump = lymph pump.

💚 What Fibrosis Feels Like Emotionally

Fibrosis also stores emotion, especially in women:
• Tightness around the ribcage = unspoken stress
• Hardened abdomen = protection + past trauma
• Underarm fibrosis = emotional overflow
• Thigh/hip density = stored cortisol and chronic pressure

The lymphatic system is emotional.
Fibrosis often forms when the body has been “bracing” for too long.

🪷 The Good News

Fibrosis is NOT permanent.
Tissue can change.
Flow can return.
Healing can restart.

You just need the right strategy, the right education, and the right consistency — not force, not pain, not intense pressure.

Your lymphatic system responds to gentleness, rhythm, hydration and safety.

Fibrosis softens when the body feels safe enough to let go.

22/11/2025

FREE SCAR THERAPY TREATMENT – COVENTRY

📅 25th November
🕒 3:00pm – 4:30pm
📍 Heart of England Social Club, Berkswell Road, Meriden, Coventry CV7 7LB

We’re offering a free scar therapy treatment session for anyone experiencing discomfort, tightness, or restricted movement after surgery or cancer treatment.

What to expect:
• Treatment for cording (Axillary Web Syndrome / AWS)
• Support from experienced scar therapy practitioners
• Helpful self-scar care information to use at home
• Gentle scar massage to reduce tightness and improve mobility

Spaces are limited — please book in advance.

👉 BOOK NOW: [https://restorescar.as.me/COVENTRYOnc](https://restorescar.as.me/COVENTRYOnc)

21/11/2025

Juzo are one of the great compression garment companies I trust for client needs. Their products consistently offer comfort and reliable results.

When it comes to medical compression garments, Juzo is known for offering some pretty cool options... but our new compression wrap? It's literally and figuratively cool. 😎 ❄️

Read the full blog for more on our latest launch: juzousa.com/Juzo-Blog/Article/Juzo-Launches-Cooling-Compression-Wrap

16/11/2025

If you've not already, you've got just one week to buy your raffle tickets to win one of these many incredible prizes. £100s of fitness, health and wellbeing prizes include:

🎉 Glowing Mamma - A month of postnatal or antenatal classes
🎉 Repose Me - 1 x cranio-sacral therapy session for an adult, child or baby (to be used by the end of 2025)
🎉 ALM fitness (in Inkberrow) - 6 week programme worth £250
🎉 Leah Rebecca Yoga & Massage - 90 min pregnancy or postnatal treatment
🎉 Maternology Ltd - 45 Minute Pregnancy / Postnatal massage
🎉 HRB Therapies - Pregnancy / Postnatal massage
🎉 Lucy Sullivan Therapy - £46 Reflexology Voucher

A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY OF LOCAL BUSINESSES WHO HAVE SO GENEROUSLY DONATED.

https://www.becomingfamilies.co.uk/raffle to buy tickets.

16/11/2025

For anyone coming down the Hanley Road by Warners over the next few days please be aware it has just been closed due to flooding. 😞

15/11/2025

Today was all about scars, learning from them, understanding them, and celebrating the strength they represent.
I spent the day at an incredible scar symposium, diving deeper into the science, stories and therapies that support healing. Every time I learn more, my love for scar work only grows.

Scars are not flaws.
They are evidence of resilience and of what the body has overcome and how brilliantly it adapts. Supporting people on their healing journeys is something I feel deeply privileged to do.

Feeling inspired, grateful, and full of new knowledge to bring back to my work. ❤️

15/11/2025

Off to Birmingham today for the Scar Symposium 😁
Always excited to deepen my knowledge and I genuinely love learning about scars and how to support healing.
Looking forward to a great day

07/11/2025

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A space to celebrate your growing baby & to be pampered…
Venue: The fold Bransford, WR6 5JB

A dedicated space for expectant mothers to rest, prepare, and to celebrate their pregnancy. This retreat offers a chance to celebrate your body, boost your confidence, and document the emotional journey of expecting a child. Celebrating the love and anticipation of a new family member within a supportive community.
This retreat blends the experience of Nat .mama.tree, Hilary and Hayley from , we’ve worked together for over three years now offering Mums and Mums to be a space of celebration, understanding and nurture. This retreat blends relaxation techniques to support your body and mind, helping you feel confident and empowered as you prepare for birth alongside some gentle movement. Offering a massage to pamper & ease and photography to capture and celebrate this special time, alongside aromatherapy & affirmation creating to prepare for birth.
This is a calm and nurturing experience, designed to deepen your connection with yourself, your baby, and a supportive community of mothers-to-be.
TO BOOK: WhatsApp Nat on 07922045822 or email: Themamatree.Nat@gmail.com

23/10/2025

FREE Halloween Trail in Upton upon Severn.
Starting this Saturday for the week !
HRB Therapies ‘may’ be part of the trail 😉
Entry sheets from the tourist information at The Pepperpot.

Enjoy 🎃