Vascular and Lymphatic Manipulation

Dr. Kavieff has trained over the last several years with various Australian DO’s in Vascular Manipulation, including Maxwell Fraval, D.O. (Australia) and Michael Solano, D.O. (Australia).  In vascular manipulation, the strains in the walls of blood vessels are released with some amazing results.  As an example, let’s take a patient who slips with one leg on an ice patch and falls on a single outstretched hand, resulting in a shoulder injury that does not require surgery based on a negative MRI.  In some cases, despite several months of PT, the condition does not improve much, and I have seen such patients and found the issue to be related to a strain in an artery or vein that is either in the shoulder area or actually supplies or drains the blood from the shoulder.  Using these Australian vascular techniques resolved the pain.

Dr. Kavieff saw Bruno Chikly, M.D., D.O. at a New Ideas Forum at the American Academy of Osteopathy Convocation in the 90’s and was so impressed with the technique that he developed, Lymphatic Drainage Therapy (LDT), that he invited Dr. Chikly to come to Michigan to teach the first course in LDT taught to US DO’s at his Farmington Hills office.  Dr Chikly acknowledged Dr. Kavieff in his book, “Silent Waves”.  LDT utilizes the rhythmic pulse like movement of lymph that can be palpated throughout the body and the inherent healing potential of the human body to improve lymph flow from stagnant areas and improve tissue fluid exchange in order to get the garbage out of the tissues and help the Health to manifest.