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Megan and Jaclyn attend the Boston Lymphatic Symposium on Lipedema

Jaclyn and Megan got to attend the Boston Lymphatic Symposium in February, held at Harvard Medical Center. We learned quite a bit at this conference, and while yes, we wish the information had more hands-on, readily applicable information for clinicians that we could use in our treatment rooms right away, we were both very glad […]

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How Does Lipedema Become a Fluid Problem?

We know that the disease lipedema involves an impairment of fat cell distribution and deposition (hyperplasia or hyperproliferation) and that this usually occurs symmetrically in the body, so in both legs (and sometimes both arms). You might hear about fat cells being called by their clinical name, adipocytes. But how does lipedema become a fluid