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  • Therapist supporting a client's bent knee during a leg treatment

    Post-Op Drainage Is Not ‘Just a Massage’

    One of the most outrageous things I see online is post-operative lymphatic drainage being treated like a massage routine anybody can copy from a short video. A partner, friend or therapist presses hard across swollen tissue, ‘pushes the fluid out’ and hopes for the [...]

  • Mel Kingdom assessing a client's feet and leg alignment during a Bowen therapy session

    Menopause and Blood Sugar: What HbA1c Can — and Cannot — Tell You

    Midlife can feel as though somebody changed the rules without handing you the new manual. Sleep becomes less reliable, energy dips, weight distribution changes and the habits that once worked may stop producing the same result. It is easy to respond by becoming stricter [...]

  • Mel Kingdom performing Bowen therapy on a client lying on their side

    Measure, Don’t Guess: Why 120 Days Can Change the Conversation

    The supplement aisle is noisy. One person swears by a capsule, another promises a miracle powder, and social media can make it feel as though everybody has discovered the one answer your body is missing. The awkward truth is that a product can look [...]