06/01/2026
June is Lipedema Awareness Month 💚🦋
And if your legs feel heavy, painful, swollen, tender, or disproportionate, I want you to know something:
You are not lazy.
You are not imagining it.
And this is not “just weight.”
Lipedema is a chronic fat and connective tissue disorder that most commonly affects women, although men can have it too. It can affect the legs, hips, thighs, buttocks, and sometimes the arms.
Many patients describe it as walking around with concrete legs. The tissue may bruise easily, feel painful to touch, swell by the end of the day, or stop responding the way regular fat responds to diet and exercise.
As a Certified Lymphedema Therapist, I support lipedema and lipo-lymphedema patients with clinical Manual Lymphatic Drainage, Complete Decongestive Therapy principles, compression guidance, garment fitting, tissue assessment, education, and referrals when needed.
Your lymphatic system is like the drainage system of the body. When the system becomes overloaded, everything backs up. Because lymphatic fluid is rich in protein, untreated congestion can contribute to heaviness, thickening, inflammation, and fibrosis over time.
Lipedema is real.
Lymphatic care matters.
And patients deserve to be understood, not blamed.
💚 TheraFlow Health
🦋 Clinical lymphatic care
📍 Virginia Beach + patient education beyond
