Lipoedema can be a painful and debilitating disorder. It predominantly affects women and may appear following a fluctuation in hormones, such as puberty, pregnancy, or menopause. Once diagnosed, patients wonder if lipoedema will continue to worsen. The answer is, yes, it often does without management. It is typically a progressive condition and may become more severe with symptoms growing worse as time passes. The key to slowing its progression is management of the condition. More about Lipoedema and classifying its severity. Lipoedema is characterised by excessive deposits of fat cells (adipo ..read more

Lipoedema can be a debilitating disease, causing physical pain, reduced mobility, and psychological distress. They say prevention is better than a cure and while there is no cure for lipoedema, the disease can be managed, and early intervention is key to preventing or limiting the symptoms that intrude on normal life. The enlarged tissue in the legs and sometimes arms characteristic of lipoedema does not reduce with diet and exercise adjustments. It stops at the wrists and ankles with a kind of “cuffing” or “braceleting” from an abrupt end to the fuller tissue. The legs usually have a column-l ..read more

Lipoedema treatment and management can greatly improve a patient’s quality of life. Lipoedema is a fat disorder that causes fat cells to disproportionately build up in the legs, thighs, buttocks (and sometimes arms). It is often misdiagnosed as it can be mistaken for other diseases, such as polycystic ovary disease, obesity, and lymphoedema. Symptoms include enlarged limbs that do not reduce with diet and exercise, unexplained bruising, “cuffing” or “braceleting” at the ankles and wrists, legs with a column-like shape with little definition, sensitivity, and pain on touch, loss of mobility, wh ..read more

A connection between lipoedema and varicose veins is plausible. Although a link is not yet well defined in research, they are at least regularly identified together. In today’s blog, let’s look at the possible links and how it affects lipoedema treatment. Lipoedema is a disease identified by the irregular and excessive accumulation of fatty tissue disproportionately in the thighs, lower legs, and sometimes arms. Other symptoms of lipedema (lipoedema) include the appearance of swelling in the legs, the legs look column-like instead of shaped, painful sensitivity to touch, aching, bruising easil ..read more

Using liposuction to treat lipoedema gives patients a longed-for answer to the symptoms of this condition. There is no cure for lipoedema, but treatments can relieve symptoms. Liposuction surgery gives lipoedema sufferers a chance to reclaim their lives without the repercussions of the condition getting in the way. Lipoedema (also known as lipedema) is a disorder that causes a build-up of adipose tissue (or fatty tissue) in the legs, thighs, buttocks, and sometimes the arms. Lipoedema mainly affects women and can cause debilitating symptoms. These include enlargement, swelling, and pain in the ..read more

Lipoedema is a chronic, incurable disease that can have a significant impact on patients’ wellbeing, both physically and psychologically. In fact, some people can be so severely restricted by the condition that they eventually become homebound. Despite the seriousness of this disease, Australian lipoedema sufferers face significant challenges even getting recognition. Not only is awareness amongst medical practitioners poor but there is also little research on the disease. As a result, many people with lipoedema are misdiagnosed by healthcare professionals. As it stands, there are no Australia ..read more

With any form of cosmetic procedure like liposuction, the nature of the anaesthesia used is an important and serious matter. There are many different types of anaesthetic used by medical practitioners; from general anaesthetic that completely puts the patient to sleep, to local anaesthetic and tumescent anaesthetic which is used to numb large areas of the body. When performing liposuction, we use tumescent anaesthetic – a particular way of administering local anaesthetic that suits patient needs, recovery, and is ideal for the liposuction procedure. To understand where we’re at with anaestheti ..read more

Cosmetic procedures, as with any form of operation, are not without the risk of complications. Therefore, if you’re considering receiving any form of cosmetic surgery, you should learn about the procedure and educate yourself on the associated risks, as well as how to minimise those risks. While you’ve probably heard the horror stories about cosmetic procedures in foreign countries –unwanted side effects, poor patient care, and complicated surgeries – you may not realise those same risks apply here in Australia. In this article, we aim to show you how you can minimise risks associated with cos ..read more

Dr Peter Paraskevas was again proud to represent the Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery (ACCS) at the Liposuction Advanced Workshop over the weekend. It was a gruelling 2 days of training and involved hands-on training of Registrars of the ACCS in an immersive and highly educational environment. Every year, the Advanced Workshop helps build on the skills of liposuction and introduce treatments of advanced areas, such as liposuction of the arms, lower legs or cankles (lipoedema), chin (double chin), inner thighs and buttocks. One of the major points of discussion was the increasing popula ..read more

Dr Peter Paraskevas was proud to present at the annual Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery Liposuction Basic Workshop recently. Each year in Sydney, in July and August, the Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery holds two training workshops: Liposuction Basic Workshop and Liposuction Advanced Workshop. This year Dr Paraskevas was appointed to the executive board of the Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery and invited by the ACCS onto the Liposuction Training Committee where he contributed to the workshop. He volunteers his time to train the registrars of the college on liposuction a ..read more