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
sure everything's relaxed so you can really move that skin around. So again you kind of
do a twisting motion. You can go across the scar, front to back. And then you can go along
the scar up and down. You can do both on each side. You can kind of alternate it. So it's
really just trying to move that top layer of skin around from the bottom layer so you're
breaking up that scar tissue. You can do this about 3-5 minutes once or twice a day. That
was you scar tissue mobilization. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments
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