Thursday, August 5, 2021 - Episode 390
By: Karen Ashforth, MS, OTR, CLT-LANA
The Link Between Inflammation and Fibrosis
- Today, I have an excerpt from a free webinar with Karen Ashforth that was provided by Lipedema Simplified during Lipedema Awareness month in June 2021.
- Karen is an occupational therapist with more than 20 years of experience in treating lymphedema and lipedema.
- In this excerpt, Karen talks about fibrosis, or the hardening and thickening of tissue, that can be experienced in all stages of lipedema.
- She draws the link between inflammation and the formation of fibrosis and how diet may be instrumental in preventing the onset or progression of fibrosis.