Cycle syncing is trending right now. Instagram and TikTok are full of tips and tricks on how to train “correctly” in sync with your female cycle to increase performance. But what is cycle syncing all about? What do you need to watch out for and can you optimise your performance every month? Get the answers…

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Fashion in compression   Fashion means more to me than just the choice between “jeans or jogging pants”.   As a wearer of compression garments for the arms and legs, you ask yourself a lot of questions every day – which compressions are combinable, what are the temperatures, should the compression be visible or not?…

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Raising Awareness (Lipoedema events & raising awareness on Social Media) Every one of us is familiar with CPD (Complex Physical Decongestive Therapy). In every book, at every event or at every doctor’s visit, the pillars of CPD are the be-all and end-all of therapy for lipoedema. Today, I would like to focus on a subject…

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Sport and exercise with lipoedema Sadly, many women with lipoedema are familiar with the difficult and lengthy process of getting a diagnosis. I gave an account of this in my previous post. But once we finally have a diagnosis, every woman deals with their everyday challenges differently. I would like to address the topic of…

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How did you find out about the disease? Hi, my name is Janina (Liavia 86). I am 36 years old, happily married since 2016 and work full-time in NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia) as a bank clerk. At that time, I was often told by the family “You look like Grandma Hedti”. This statement was related to…

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