Got Scars?

Relief from Scar Tissue

Even the smallest scar can have a major affect on a body’s ability to function and a person’s overall health.

GRMC’s massage therapists now offer a technique that centers on fascia release in the body.  

Fascia, defined in the simplest terms, is a web of connective tissue in the human body that holds us together. It’s three dimensional and extends from head to toe, front to back, and inside to outside the body. Scar tissue is fibrous tissue that deposits during repair or healing, replacing normal tissue or skin after injury. When scar tissue replaces the body’s fascia tissue, the body’s functionality changes.

In the long-term, scars can cause nerve impingement, pain, limited motion and flexibility, postural misalignment, and other effects, depending on its location, severity, and age.

Jamie Hodina, GRMC massage therapist, explains how the new therapy offered at Postels Community Health Park helps patients.

“The F.A.S.T. Release Method helps an injury heal and the fascia to return to a state prior to the injury or surgery. Anytime after 18 weeks following the injury, we can begin this therapy to help the fascia tissue heal and reduce pain associated with the tightness and hardening of tissue during healing,” Hodina says. “Each person and area of the body responds differently.”

Muscle and tissue have memory so this therapy can take several sessions to retrain the muscle memory. Hodina says she can work with patients who have any scar tissue, for example, from abdominal surgery, C-sections, incisions /surgeries on the arms and legs, hernias, even heart surgery.

“I like doing this massage therapy because it shows results right away. Patients have commented on the immediate difference this makes. But because the muscle wants to revert back, we have to retrain the memory to the new ‘relaxed’ state. I have several women who have had C-sections and were experiencing back pain. This therapy has shown significant relief for them.”

For more information about scar tissue massage, call Postels Community Health Park at 641-236-2953.