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Get Rid of Scar Tissue - Ask Doctor Jo

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Hey everybody, it's Doctor Jo. Today I'm gonna talk about scar tissue mobilization. Any time

you have a surgery or maybe a big injury with a open wound, it scars up. The scar tissue

is great for healing, but then once it's healed, the scar tissue has nowhere to go. So you

have to kind of break it up to get rid of it. So let's get started.

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As you can see, I have an old scar from a surgery a long time ago. Mine's nice and healed up and it's no

longer pink or purple and it's really smooth. Your's won't be like this if it's fairly new.

But make sure to ask your Doctor or Physical Therapist if it's ok to start doing the scar

mobilization because you want it to be completely healed before you start doing any of this.

The best way to start is to take a massage cream and just warm up the area and the tissue

so you can just start very lightly with this. You can be very generous with the cream to

get everything nice and smooth. You don't have to use cream, but it's a little nicer

on your skin. So just kind of getting everything nice and warm in there. You can go front to

back across the scar. You can go up and down beside it. After you do that for about a minute,

you can start getting a little bit harder with more pressure on the scar. So just kind

of now start off with some circles, but you're putting more pressure, you're pushing on it.

Now if your scar is fairly new, this is going to be very uncomfortable. You might feel some

pops underneath, but that is the scar tissue popping. So if it just hurts for a second

and you feel that pop and it goes away, it's ok. That's the scar tissue breaking up. Then

once you get everything nice and warm and moving around, you can start taking two fingers,

your thumb and your finger, and actually start twisting that skin a little bit. Try and make


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