ELT frequently asked questions

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You will be treated in a private room by a trained female ELT Practitioner. Sessions last 20 minutes although a full-body session may be longer. You will be asked to undress to the waist down. You will need to full undress to lower body underwear for a full-body session. The Practitioner will ask you about the health of your breasts and any complaints you have or physical feelings you have noticed. The Practitioner will gently press the device over your body as well as doing sweeping motions to move the cells through the lymphs. You will not feel anything apart from a slight warm feeling from the head of the device. Your Practitioner will keeping checking that any lumps or swelling do not feel too painful to touch.

The therapist needs to understand how toxic the patient is. If a person responds to the treatment with some ill effects, it is important to limit the amount of time one spends on the treatment itself. This gives the liver time to detoxify the material coming from the lymph system and avoids discomfort for the patient. If there are no or little negative effects, one can increase the length of the treatments.

Not really, however as the energy field is applied to the surface of the skin, a form of massage pushes the fluids to move toward the subclavian vein, The lymph system is a series of pathways and these pathways must be followed in the proper order for the therapy to be successful.

It depends on the condition one is treating and the toxicity of the patient. Generally speaking, two or three sessions per week are common.

It is probably the safest and least likely to have any side effects of any device that has a major effect on bodily function. The most common side effect is from treating a toxic person too rapidly for them to handle the waste being dumped from the system. The solution to this is starting out with treating a limited area to see how the person can handle the waste disposal, reflecting how well their liver functions. It always helps to drink plenty of water to help flush out the toxins.

This is a difficult question to answer as there are many facets to this problem. Animal experiments that have been done suggest that heparin (which is given to thin the blood) has been used to prevent metastases of primary tumour cells. Similarly, a negative charge makes it more difficult for a tumour cell to attach to other tissue when the cell is charged by this instrument and also with heparin. The therapist needs to asses how toxic this patient is and whether they are in the terminally ill stage of the cancer. It is not recommended to treat patients who are terminally ill with this treatment. The focus on such cases must be palliative supportive care.

Generally speaking, there is a relief from pain and other things associated with the condition that the person presents with. Sleep is often better and most people report a general feeling of well being.

It depends upon the condition one is treating. It is also important to understand the origins of the particular condition one is being treated for. Generally speaking, once the lymph system has been cleared then it can maintain itself with the help of all the correct lifestyle habits.

There may be good reasons for you to have these treatments before surgery. However, after surgery your body needs time to heal. It takes at least a week after surgery to be past the safe period for triggering any haemorrhage from the surgery site so I would recommend waiting at least a week or 10 days after surgery before recommencing these treatments.

There may be good reasons for you to have these treatments before surgery. However, after surgery your body needs time to heal. It takes at least a week after surgery to be past the safe period for triggering any haemorrhage from the surgery site so I would recommend waiting at least a week or 10 days after surgery before recommencing these treatments.

This depends on whether this is acute or chronic and the cause of these enlarged nodes but generally speaking yes, this treatment is helpful because it dissociates the obstructions in the lymph nodes.

There is no comparison. Unlike manual lymphatic drainage, the energy field delivered by this instrument instantly removes the obstruction to the flow of lymph by dissociating the components causing the obstruction. On an effectiveness scale of 1 to 10, manual lymphatic drainage works up to 4 or 5 on this scale. Electro Lymphatic Therapy, however, rates between 8 or 9 on this scale.

Yes. When you do this you have the possibility for removing wastes from the tissue and bringing healthy blood and nutrients to the tissue which has the potential for making that area youthful.

There are important pathways for the lymphatic system in the body which you must follow in order for the treatments to work properly. It is important to start by opening up the area underneath the clavicle which is where the main drainage of the lymphatic system begins. From that point go to the next main junction which would be the axillae, abdomen and inguinal areas before treating the lower parts of the body. You must then always go back to the upper trunk area and make sure that as you move the fluids back, you do not bring about further blockages otherwise the treatment will not work properly.

No, we use this treatment in fact to help relocate a pathway to bypass that area so that can avoid post mastectomy lymphoedema.

Yes and this can help many digestive problems to heal.

This treatment would help work alongside physiotherapy to improve the flow of blood and lymph in the affected limb.

This device has only ever been used in direct contact with the skin.

Yes. This is an excellent treatment for diabetics whose primary problem is one of the capillaries not being able to adequately perfuse the tissue bed with oxygen and nutrients. By improving the microcirculation, this treatment will allow more oxygen to move more readily into the tissue bed.

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