Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education (MLDSE) welcomes guest speaker, Patti Corscaden to its Wiscasset Lyme Support meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Wiscasset Community Center located at 242 Gardiner Rd, Wiscasset.

Patti is a Licensed Massage Therapist, one of a very few in Midcoast Maine who specialize in lymph drainage therapy, craniosacral therapy, and oncology massage. Her experience in several related therapies allows her to choose the modality, or combination of modalities, that a client most needs at any given time.

A graduate of the Downeast School of Massage, she has been in private practice since 1994. She has had extensive training and experience in a variety of gentle, hands-on healing modalities.  Besides helping private clients, Patti volunteers at Portland’s Mercy Hospital out-patient oncology unit. She also volunteers at Miles-St. Andrews Home Health and Hospice, where she received her Hospice training.

Patti will share the role massage therapy plays in chronic illness, touching on the many therapeutic services that she offers her clients:

Lymph Drainage Therapy enhances the flow of lymph throughout the body to help cleanse and strengthen the immune system. Lymph, consisting primarily of blood plasma and white blood cells, is propelled throughout the body by tiny muscular contractions. As it bathes the body’s tissues, lymph collects proteins, toxins, hormones, fatty acids, and immune cells and carries them to lymph nodes for filtering. Stress, infection, fatigue, and emotional upset can compromise this flow, impairing cell function.

Craniosacral therapy balances the flow of fluids surrounding the brain and spinal cord to address sensory, neurological, and motor disorders. Fluids surrounding the brain and spinal cord are encased in a membranous sac that rhythmically pumps them from the cranium (the bones of the skull, face, and mouth) to the sacrum (tailbone). Any imbalance in the flow of these fluids can trigger sensory, neurological, and motor disorders. Patti uses a light touch to identify restrictions in the rhythm and assist the system’s hydraulic forces, strengthening the body’s ability to correct itself.

Reiki reduces stress, enhances relaxation, and promotes healing by improving the flow of life-force energy through correct placement of the therapist’s hands. Shiatsu uses finger pressure to stimulate the body’s healing systems and induce deep relaxation. Sound Therapy occurs during deep body healing; as tissues, cells and fluids heal, they release energy creating sounds; the therapist is the vehicle through which these sounds are heard.   

Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education (MLDSE) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that serves the needs of Midcoast Maine's Lyme community through awareness, education, advocacy and free support resources. A Maine-partner of the national Lyme Disease Association, they are also members of the Maine CDC's Vector-borne Work Group and are active in Maine's Lyme Legislation movement.

They foster community education by bringing in guest speakers to their meetings to address subject matters that come up. They bring in expert providers in their field to educate, answer questions and who can offer a necessary connection to a medical need through their products and/or services. MLDSE offers meetings all across Midcoast Maine.

For more information about this meeting, other meetings or the organization, please contact Paula Jackson Jones (207) 446-6447, Angele Rice (207) 841-8757 or visit their website www.mldse.org