Scar Workshop

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.

Some of the issues reported by women who have scarring are:

• Pain on intercourse
• Pain on ovulation
• Pain on passing urine or opening bowels
• Impaired bladder and bowel function and control
• Poor postural alignment
• Sub-optimal breathing strategy
• Inability to repair abdominal diastasis (separation of the tummy muscles)
• A weakened core system.
• A reduction in pelvic floor strength/function
• neck, jaw, shoulder and back pain
• Reduced movement through the hip, back, shoulder, or chest

Who is this workshop for?

Scar massage is beneficial for all scars following operations such as:

• caesarean
• hysterectomy
• appendicectomy
• laparoscopy (keyhole surgery)
• bowel surgery

The Stats

• Just over 80% of people diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK have surgery.
• Just under half (43%) of women who have surgery for breast cancer have a mastectomy, just over half (57%) have breast‐conserving surgery involving donor sites and more scarring.
• Caesarean section births are occur for 42% babies born in the UK.
• 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  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 intercourse 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 body if you don’t want to. You will be laying down for the massage on a mat. 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. It is recommended that you bring a towel, pillow or cushion and a mat to the session.

Who can attend?

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

If you are a recent or years after surgery, accident or injury that has produced a scar, then this course is for you. Please note: you should be at least 10 weeks post injury/operation with a healed scar to attend the workshop. You should not be currently undergoing a course of radiation therapy. There should be no open areas, scabs, oozing or bleeding from your wound. I allow for small numbers per workshop to give adequate focus to each individual.