Following breast cancer surgery or cancer-related procedures, scars can affect more than just the surface of your skin. Whether you have had a lumpectomy, mastectomy, reconstruction, lymph node removal, abdominal surgery or radiotherapy, your body has been through significant change.
Many women are not fully prepared for how their scars may look or feel afterwards. You may have been focused on treatment and survival and not on how recovery would feel months or even years later. Tightness, pulling, numbness, altered sensation, postural changes or restricted movement can all develop as your body heals.
It is important to understand how to care for your scar tissue properly.
when performed by a therapist trained in oncology care, scar massage can:
