This tool will give you a more accurate picture of what’s been accumulating and why that matters for how you get treated. For most people, that picture alone changes how they interpret what they’re feeling, how precisely they can communicate it, and what they’re able to bring to whoever helps them next.
About the Author
Sarah Lew Donnelly, L.Ac., is a licensed acupuncturist and manual therapist specializing in postoperative and lymphatic care.
The proteodynamic framework reflects fifteen years of focused clinical practice integrating Traditional East Asian Medicine, manual therapy, and contemporary research in fascia and lymphatic physiology.
Origin of the Framework
These monographs are the distillation of fifteen years of clinical practice. The framework emerged from repeated patterns observed in patients whose recovery had stalled: consistent tissue findings, predictable sequencing errors, and reproducible changes when drainage and order were addressed first.
Over time, those observations were organized into a coherent model and articulated in dialogue with research in fascia, lymphatic physiology, and repair biology. The structure presented here reflects how assessment and treatment decisions are made in practice.