Currently, MLD is used to treat lymphedema following cancer treatments and to reduce pain and alleviate edema caused by venous diseases, surgery, primary lymphedema and trauma, pregnancy or scars.

MLD is gentle hand movement to give a pumping action on the skin without oils. This technique is a type of skin massage, which improves lymph flow and reabsorption without increasing capillary filtration. The theoretical bases follow these concepts:

1) stimulating the lymphatic system via an increase in lymph circulation,
2)expediting the removal of biochemical wastes from body tissues,
3) enhancing body fluid dynamics, thereby facilitating edema reduction.

But…Manual lymphatic drainage has more neurophysiological benefits that can be included as a part of prevention and treatment in chronic modern diseases beyond tipical theory that everyone knows.