Myofascial Release
The tight, pulling, restricted feeling that stretching never quite reaches often lives in the fascia, the connective tissue that wraps your muscles. Myofascial release is slow, hands-on work that helps those areas soften and ease so you can move more freely. Delivered by therapists trained in manual therapy across three clinics in Chicago's western suburbs.
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Concerns Myofascial Release Treats
Firm, bound-down areas that can form as the body heals after liposuction, a BBL, or a tummy tuck. Once your surgeon has cleared you, myofascial release helps soften those areas and free up the tissue around them.
View Concern →Softer tissue
Firm, bound-down scar tissue and restriction eased over a course
Freer movement
Areas that pull when you reach, turn, or bend glide more freely
Released tension
Chronic tight bands that keep returning finally let go
Comfortable pacing
Slow, sustained pressure worked within your tolerance, not through it
Why patients choose NLC.
Founder Sharon M. Vogel has spent more than three decades devoted to lymphatic drainage. A Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Lymphedema Therapist and Board-Certified in Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (LMT, CLT, BCTMB), she developed the Vogel Method and founded National Lymphatic Centers in 1991. Today her team of certified therapists carries that same standard across three clinics in Chicago's western suburbs: Hinsdale, Downers Grove and Joliet.
When myofascial release isn't the right first call
Contraindications: we refer you on
Some conditions are outside our scope, and we will refer you.
- • We do not treat clients with AFib, COPD, emphysema, blood clots, or active infection
- • These are outside our scope of care
- • For a lymphatic emergency we guide you to a hospital lymphedema clinic with emergency care on site
- • This is appropriate scope of practice, not a hedge
For post-surgical work, your surgeon clears you first
After surgery, your surgeon clears you before we begin.
- • We provide conservative manual therapy and do not perform surgery
- • For scar tissue and fibrosis after a procedure, your surgeon's clearance always comes first
- • We follow the timing your surgeon gives and build the plan around it
- • We start light and increase as the tissue is ready
We screen at your first visit
Every session opens with a health review before we begin.
- • Each visit at our Hinsdale, Downers Grove, and Joliet clinics starts with a health review
- • If your medical history changes, we pause and re-screen before the next session
- • If a different path is the better start, your therapist says so at intake
How a myofascial release session runs.
Nothing happens without your say so. Sessions follow your anatomy and your condition, so no two plans look the same. Every plan starts with an assessment, because everyone is different.
For recovery work, your therapist starts with your surgeon's guidance. They feel where the tissue has tightened and where it still moves freely, so the plan targets what is actually there. Your first visit includes this assessment before the hands-on work, so plan a little extra time.
Details+
- • Health history, prior surgeries, current conditions, medications
- • A read of where the tissue has tightened and where it still moves
- • Candidacy screen against the contraindications list
- • For recovery work, your surgeon's clearance and guidance
The work, explained by Sharon
The full team.
Hover to read each name. Certified care across all three Illinois clinics, every session to the Vogel Method standard.
Sharon M. Vogel
LMT · CLT · CDT · BCTMB · CVMLD™
All three clinics
Abdul Alagha
LMT · CLT · LANA
Downers Grove
Ludmila Lynch
LMT · CVMLD™ · CLT
Joliet
Stephanie Kos
LMT · CVMLD™ · CLT · LET
Hinsdale
Hana Echevarria
LMT · OMT · CDT
Downers Grove
Ricky Sharma
LMT · CVMLD™ · MLD
Downers Grove
Sharon M. Vogel
LMT · CLT · CDT · BCTMB · CVMLD™
All three clinics
Abdul Alagha
LMT · CLT · LANA
Downers Grove
Ludmila Lynch
LMT · CVMLD™ · CLT
Joliet
Stephanie Kos
LMT · CVMLD™ · CLT · LET
Hinsdale
Hana Echevarria
LMT · OMT · CDT
Downers Grove
Ricky Sharma
LMT · CVMLD™ · MLD
Downers Grove
What patients tell us
4.8★ across 1,000+ reviews on Google, Yelp & More
“The Vogel Method is the only manual lymphatic massage that has decreased my joint swelling and improved my quality of life. I am willing to drive over an hour to see Sharon and team. She keeps my vertigo and joint swelling at bay.”
Mary H.
Google · joint swelling & vertigo · May 2026
Three Illinois clinics.
Reserve your visit.
No referral needed.
Choose a therapist and a time that works for you, at any of our three Illinois clinics. Same-specialty care, whether it is your first visit or your tenth.
See pricingA self-pay clinic, with a superbill for your insurer.
We do not bill insurance directly. For medically necessary lymphatic therapy, we provide an itemized superbill you can submit to your insurer for possible reimbursement. Coverage varies by plan, so check with your provider.
Have questions about referrals or reimbursement? Our front desk is happy to help. 630-828-6582
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Not sure if myofascial release is what you need?
That is a fair question, and we would rather answer it honestly than book you blindly. Call us, tell us where the tightness or restriction is and how long it has been there, and we will say plainly whether MFR can help. For post-surgical work we will ask about your surgeon's clearance first. If it can help, we will get you in at the clinic nearest you: Hinsdale, Downers Grove, or Joliet.