Abdominal Scar Workshop

Scar tissue therapy is generally overlooked by health professionals as they fail to acknowledge the physiological extent these scars affect the body. Body workers understand that even the slightest restriction in the body’s connective tissue (fascia) that is weaved throughout our body, can have major repercussions from one end of the body to the other.

A scar can have a lifelong effect both physically and mentally. Scar tissue has the potential to spread in any direction including internally throughout the body. It can also restrict movement or function anywhere in the body from a joint to an organ.

Scar tissue release therapy is extraordinarily simple to learn, easy to apply and yields powerful results that can prevent a lifetime of compensation, complications and pain. Thus, women need to understand the physical long term consequences of having a caesarean birth, and how to care for the scar and deeper layers beneath. It is so important to give your abdomen some real TLC. There are many issues that can be caused by the scar tissue under and around the incision area of your abdomen.

Why should women perform Scar Exercise, Mobilisation and Massage?

Scar tissue therapy is generally overlooked by health professionals as they fail to acknowledge the physiological extent these scars affect the body. Body workers understand that even the slightest restriction in the body’s connective tissue (fascia) that is weaved throughout our body, can have major repercussions from one end of the body to the other.

A scar can have a lifelong effect both physically and mentally. Scar tissue has the potential to spread in any direction including internally throughout the body. It can also restrict movement or function anywhere in the body from a joint to an organ.

Scar tissue release therapy is extraordinarily simple to learn, easy to apply and yields powerful results that can prevent a lifetime of compensation, complications and pain. Thus, women need to understand the physical long term consequences of having a caesarean birth, and how to care for the scar and deeper layers beneath. It is so important to give your abdomen some real TLC. There are many issues that can be caused by the scar tissue under and around the incision area of your abdomen.

Some of the issues reported by women who have scarring to their abdominal area are:

• Pain on intercourse
• Pain on ovulation
• Pain on passing urine or opening bowels
• Impaired bladder and bowel function and control
• Poor postural alignment, reduced activation of the pelvic floor
• Inability to repair abdominal diastasis (separation of the tummy muscles)
• A weakened core system.

Who is this workshop for?

Scar massage is beneficial for all abdominal scars following operations such as hysterectomy, appendicectomy, laparotomy, laparoscopy, oophorectomy and caesarean operations. Caesarean section births are occur for every 1 in 4 babies born in the UK. In addition, 1 in 5 women will have a hysterectomy by the age of 55. As these are common operations, they can often be overlooked as being a major form of abdominal surgery.

There are lots of techniques you can learn to get your scar looking good and for your body to feel like it is functioning better.

Exercise, mobilisation and massage of the scar are essential for freeing up deeper layers of stuck scar tissue and helping to improve posture, mobility, core stability, reduce ovulation and other pain, improve sex life plus many other benefits!

What to Wear

Loose comfortable clothing is preferable. If you wish, you can massage over clothing (a thin baggy T shirt works best), there is no expectation for you to reveal your belly if you don’t want to. We will be carrying out some gentle stretching exercises to help with scar release and improving blood flow to the area, so please wear clothing that allows movement.

Who can attend?

Anyone who has a scar on their abdomen will benefit from this course.

If you are a recent or years after birth mother, or a woman who has experienced an abdominal hysterectomy, then this course is for you – or in fact anyone who has scarring on their abdomen. (Please note: mums should be at least 10 weeks postnatal with a healed scar to attend the workshop). There should be no open areas, scabs, oozing or bleeding from your wound. We allow for small numbers per workshop to give adequate focus to each individual.