HIDDEN SECRETS OF SCARS
Scars are like an iceberg
Visible scars are just part of the healing story. As your body produces new collagen, it spreads deeper and can impact nearby structures, such as fascia. This healing process can take up to two years. The new tissue often lacks flexibility and behaves differently from healthy tissue, which can affect the fascia, lymph vessels, blood vessels, and surrounding muscles.
Fascia is a thin yet strong layer that wraps around your muscles, organs, nerves, and more. This connective tissue forms a network throughout your body, providing support and protection. Although fascia is thinner than skin, it is stronger than steel when compared cell for cell. Moreover, fascia plays a crucial role in helping you sense your body’s position and movement. The top layer lies just beneath your skin, while deeper layers cover your internal structures. From head to toe, fascia connects and supports everything inside you.
Scar release massage is a gentle yet effective way to address the hidden effects of scar tissue. Scars show that your body is healing, but if left untreated, they can sometimes cause pain, limit movement, and increase stress. Special massage techniques can soften and loosen scar tissue, allowing for easier movement and greater comfort in your skin. You might experience less pain, smoother scars, improved mobility, and a greater sense of calm. This type of massage also promotes lymph flow, which supports your immune system and overall health.
Benefits of scar work
- Improve range of motion
- Lessens the appearance of scars
- Reduces the possibility of long-term problems due to fascial adhesions
- Helps to prevent and reduce adhesions from forming after injury or surgery
- Helps to decrease numbness, pain and sensitivity from surgery
- Reduce pain and restriction (including cording and dragging)
- Helps to relieve stress on the body from scars
- Improves flexibility
- Reduces muscle spasms
- Promotes balance in the body
- Helps to improve posture
- Reduces the risk of muscle tears and strains
The effect of scars on the body
scar release sessions
MPS
The Dolphin Neurostim is the first hybrid device to treat both chronic and acute soft-tissue pain. It is safe and easy to use, delivering short, focused, non-invasive microcurrent pulses to targeted pain areas.
This device helps reduce stress on the nervous system and lowers cortisol levels. As a result, muscles relax, and the body releases endorphins, which act as natural pain relievers. The Dolphin Neurostim quickly and effectively provides pain relief by working with the nervous, muscular, and endocrine systems.
Research shows that Scar Release Therapy (SRT) can reduce pain by 73.2%-82.02% after a single treatment (IJCAM 2017; OGN 2018). This level of relief is nearly double that of other pain therapies.
SRT uses gentle microcurrent (MPS) to help heal skin, ease chronic pain, and support the body's natural tissue repair. It is a gentle and effective therapy for all types of scars.
Key benefits include:
- A 300-500% increase in the body’s energy
- Up to a 35% decrease in stress hormone levels
- Better heart rate variability, which helps the nervous system adapt
- Improved cell function, allowing the body to send signals more effectively
Only microcurrent point stimulation provides these benefits.
Discover hope for scars
Scar Massage
Gentle, targeted techniques can soften scar tissue and maintain its flexibility, reducing the risk of adhesions. These methods are particularly beneficial for individuals experiencing persistent discomfort, tightness, or limited movement in the area of a surgical scar or elsewhere in the body. Although a scar may appear healed on the surface, deeper tissue sensitivity or restrictions may persist.
Scar release massage involves using gentle, effective circular and back-and-forth motions with lotion or cream to mobilize the skin and tissue around a scar. This technique helps break up adhesions, soften tissue, improve mobility, and reduce pain by preventing scar tissue from adhering to deeper layers.
Manual scar release is typically performed 6 to 8 weeks after surgery to ensure proper healing. However, manual lymphatic massage can be initiated shortly after surgery to promote healing. Please consult your doctor before starting any treatments.