SJM_SugarStoneSpaProfile_0822final.qxp_profile 8 / 30 / 22 3 : 21 PM Page 1 PROMOTION B U S I N E S S S P O T L I G H T and her team do a thorough examination and consult with the client’s medical team before beginning complete decongestive therapies , which aim to reduce the swelling , increase mobility and optimize overall health . They teach the patients how to self - bandage , get them measured for compression gar - ments and help them get a handle on the condition . Lysa has also gone the extra mile by be - coming a post operative specialist to assist with a wide variety of needs following surgery . “ For anybody who’s had any sort of surgery , whether it’s an elective like a tummy tuck or a breast lift , or a medical surgery like a mastectomy or a gastric bypass , it affects your lymphatic system , ” she says . “ So that’s when clients will come in for either At Sugar - a lymphatic massage for general wellness , a stone Spa , medical massage or a post - op massage . ” No matter what the reason is for a visit to A Relaxing Road owner Lysa Danielle and her Sugarstone Spa , clients can expect a nurturing team bring the benefits of and calming atmosphere . They walk into a medical massage to oncology , café upon entry and can help themselves to a lymphedema , and post - surgical complimentary snack or beverage before to Recovery meeting with the lead associate and having patients . By MATT COSENTINO any of their questions answered . They then means it can move around , you don’t do start their session in a spacious treatment OST PEOPLE ARE WELL AWARE OF THE WONDERS any sort of massage because it can cause room , and depending on where they are in THAT A SPA MASSAGE CAN PROVIDE IN DELIVERING the blood clot to travel to the lungs and lead their treatment plan , may move on to the M MUCH ? NEEDED RELAXATION OR RELIEVING STRESS to a pulmonary embolism . But if someone training room to take advantage of a treadmill AFTER A CHALLENGING WEEK AT WORK . But the im - has a chronic blood clot , which means it’s and strength equipment . The entire experience portant health benefits of a medical massage attached to the vein , then it’s not going any - is so soothing that it is quite common for as part of a comprehensive , goal - oriented where and massage can bring circulation guests to make themselves at home . treatment plan , particularly for those suffering back to the area . That was personal for me “ We have clients who come early inten - through a serious disease or recovering from because of my husband’s situation , so I kept tionally just so they can decompress before surgery , are sometimes overlooked by the diving further into it . ” they go into the treatment portion , and we general public . Lysa eventually became a Certified Lym - have clients who will stay an extra 15 minutes Lysa Danielle , the founder and owner of phedema Therapist allowing Sugarstone Spa just to prepare themselves to go back to the Sugarstone Spa : Post Operative , Lymphatics , to cater to the growing list of clients seeking craziness of their lives , ” Lysa says . and Oncology Recovery Massage Centre , is her services , aiming to improve their quality Having that type doing her part to change that narrative . One of impact , and hearing of life . Initially she ran a mobile massage of the first things she learned during her the positive feedback she constantly gets service before opening her first brick - and - schooling was that massage therapy is a le - from clients , makes the business worthwhile mortar location in Voorhees in 2020 and mov - gitimate health care profession , contrary to for Lysa . She is excited to keep growing and ing to Cherry Hill earlier this year . any negative stigmas that may exist . As she serving patients who may never had known The majority of Sugarstone Spa’s clients began her career and worked in palliative about the option of medical massage , all in are oncology or lymphedema patients , care and hospice , she became further knowl - people a Zen - like space . edgeable about the ways massage can posi - recovering from plastic surgery , as well as “ We worked very hard to give a luxurious tively impact mental health as well as pre - and post - natal patients ( while pregnant feel to a medical situation , ” she says . “ I did Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients . women cannot receive lymphatic massage , not want clients coming in and feeling like But it wasn’t until a serious issue hit her Lysa is also trained in prenatal massage and they were walking into a doctor’s office and own home that Lysa really sprang into action . is a doula ) . thinking about the ailments that they have or About four years ago , her husband was di - “ There are different techniques and dif - the surgery they just had . This is a very relaxed , ? agnosed with a deep vein thrombosis , causing ferent pressures for each type of massage , ” spiritual and intimate environment . ” a blood clot in his leg . She knew she had to Lysa says . “ But the end goal is all the same : do something to help him and became im - to wake up your lymphatic system and get mersed in research . it reinstated to yourself within a certain Sugarstone Spa : Post Operative , “ I didn’t know much at that time about amount of sessions , so that it does everything Lymphatics , and Oncology the lymphatic system , ” she says . “ So I started I’m doing during the massage , once again looking into it , learning more and realizing on its own , without me . ” Recovery Massage Centre how underappreciated it is , what it does Lymphedema causes swelling in the 1930 Route 70 E . , Building X - 115 | Cherry Hill and what it does not do . … I learned that if arms and legs , usually as the result of cancer ( 888 ) 677 - 2683 | SugarstoneSpa.com someone has an acute blood clot , which treatment and lymph node removal . Lysa SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 19 issue 5 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 18 |