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Lipedema care takes a whole-person approach to painful, disproportionate fatty tissue, with personalized support for mobility, metabolic health, nutrition, and everyday comfort.

When It’s More Than Stubborn Weight

Lipedema is a chronic condition that causes a disproportionate buildup of fatty tissue, most commonly in the hips, thighs, legs, and sometimes the arms. Unlike ordinary body fat, the affected tissue may feel painful, tender, heavy, or nodular and may change very little despite traditional diet and exercise efforts.

At New England Wellness Center, we look beyond body shape or weight alone. Our functional medicine approach considers how your symptoms may be affecting your movement, metabolic health, hormonal health, comfort, and overall quality of life.

Looking Beyond the Symptoms

Your care begins with a comprehensive evaluation of your symptoms, health history, body-fat distribution, hormonal and reproductive history, metabolic health, medications, nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, and how your symptoms affect everyday life.

From there, we develop an individualized plan based on what your body and symptoms actually need. Depending on your evaluation, your care may incorporate nutrition and metabolic support, sustainable movement, compression or tissue support, hormonal and whole-body evaluation, and strategies for pain, sleep, and stress.

When additional expertise is appropriate, we may also coordinate care with vascular specialists, certified lymphedema therapists, physical therapists, or other qualified professionals.

Care That Considers the Whole Picture

There is no single treatment that works for every person with lipedema. Instead of promising a quick fix, our goal is to address the factors we can influence while helping you better understand and manage your condition.

Your personalized plan may help you:

  • Better understand your symptoms and how lipedema affects your body
  • Support metabolic health and healthy body composition
  • Improve strength, mobility, and physical function
  • Reduce discomfort, heaviness, and overall symptom burden
  • Build sustainable nutrition and movement habits
  • Address separate hormonal or metabolic concerns when identified
  • Explore compression and other supportive therapies when appropriate
  • Coordinate conventional and supportive specialty care

Functional medicine is not presented as a cure for lipedema. Rather, New England Wellness Center uses a comprehensive approach to support comfort, function, overall health, and quality of life.

Could Your Symptoms Be Lipedema?

A lipedema evaluation may be appropriate if you experience:

  • Legs, hips, thighs, or arms that appear disproportionately larger than other areas of your body
  • Similar enlargement on both sides of the body
  • Pain, tenderness, aching, or sensitivity in fatty tissue
  • Persistent feelings of heaviness or pressure in the legs
  • Lumpy or nodular tissue beneath the skin
  • Swelling or discomfort that becomes more noticeable later in the day
  • Difficulty moving or exercising comfortably
  • Limited changes in affected areas despite diet and exercise

Because lipedema can resemble or occur alongside other conditions, a thorough medical evaluation matters. If something about your symptoms has never quite added up, the goal is to understand what may be contributing to them and determine what type of support makes sense for you.

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