Get Rid of Scar Tissue - Ask Doctor Jo

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Learn how to get rid of scar tissue with scar tissue mobilization. Any time you have a surgery or injury, the area scars up. Scar tissue is great for healing, but then it has nowhere to go and can cause problems in the long run. Make sure to talk with your doctor or PT before doing this because you want the incision or injury site to be completely healed before you start.

To help break up the scar tissue, you can start with “warming up” the tissue in the area first. You can use a massage cream or lotion, but you don’t have to. Start off by pushing very lightly and make small circles directly over the scar. Then you can go up and down and side to side. Once you have done that about a minute, you can start pushing harder. This might be painful now, and you might feel some pops underneath. That is the scar tissue breaking up. It is normal and necessary.

Now you can actually take the top layer of skin and start twisting it up and down, side to side, and in circles. You are just trying to move that top layer around to break up the scar tissue from the layer below. Try doing this 3-5 minutes 1-2 times a day.

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DISCLAIMER: This video and any related comments are not medical advice. Doctor Jo is a licensed Physical Therapist and Doctor of Physical Therapy; however, she is not YOUR Physical Therapist and can't possibly diagnose you through the Internet. So don't use this information to avoid going to your own healthcare professional or to replace the advice they have given you. This information is only intended to show you the correct technique for physical therapy exercises and should not be used to self-diagnose or self-treat any medical condition. If you are not properly diagnosed, this information won't help, and it could make things worse. So seriously, check with your healthcare professional before doing these techniques. If you experience any pain or difficulty while doing these exercises, stop immediately and see your healthcare professional.

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[cosmiccouch]

Ngl this works i was skeptical but I did it for a few weeks and the scar is now flat to my skin and a lot less noticeable. Thank tou

[sustan]

Helllloooo Greetings from Ireland ...

thanks for these videos they’re great help for Dr Jo... would this video be a help for a scar on my forehead or is there another video I need to see ? would this help with wrinkles and bags under my eyes ...also I suffer terribly with blepharitis do you have a good treatment for dry eyes please...

thanks for your help Dr Joe

Justin.

[failxsquadxgaming]

Put a screw in the pad of my finger and after it healed completely I had a puffed up, highly sensitive scar in the worst of places compromising my grip strength in my left hand. (I can hold my weight up for 20-30 seconds right hand only but can’t even take my feet off the ground left handed from the pain in my finger)

Using Doctor Jo’s method for about 1-1/2 months I can now barely feel the scar at all and it’s completely invisible to the eye! I truly can’t believe the difference this technique has made in such a short time. Thanks Doctor Jo!

[ArtistInClass]

Thank you so much for this. I had a ganglion cyst removed from my wrist and no one told me about this till today, 1 month and 2 weeks after my surgery. So this was extremely helpful. Thanks again.

[katherinetutschek]

Will this work on a quad tendon I partially tore 2 years ago? I did some massage at the beginning when I had pain, and have been stretching and gradually building up my ability to hike and jog, but that knee still responds differently after exercise. It feels bulky compared to my other one.

[amyalewine]

Great video. I am a massage therapist and this is the most important type work I do along with releasing adhesion due to scar tissue. Thanks for teaching your work to the masses who are not into natural health. These techniques should have been taught to us as children. It took my many surgery's to find a type of bodywork that is meaningful.

[soundxcrash]

I literally got a scar from a ingrown hair after it was taken out . It’s a small spot but now it’s a little bumpy and I hate that my skin darkens so easily naturally one feels bumpy others don’t but still it’s so annoying to half when I get a scar and the belly area is not a pretty thing gonna try this

[GeneralCloudhopper]

Thank you so much. I've been trying to look for some place to try and help me get rid of myself harm scars that I Fab for a little bit in our desperately trying to get rid of. Thank you so much :)

[kaushalendrachaurasia]

Can u pls tell me how much time this process will take to remove my 2 weeks old scar???

[Koki-uwex]

Thanks a lot for this video ! I do have a quastion tho. Because i see you mesaging the scar in the length so up and down, but i have watched a video recently where they told to not do that so leaves my question is if it isnt a problem to do that? and also the twisting really hurts in my case, is the pain a problem ?

[motherland]

My son has been having a SCAR in his head, within 2-3 weeks it healed really good than other scar removers and stuffs…. Thanks a lot Dr. Jo!🙏

[salcedo]

Do the massages also work for burn scars? I have one on my neck from the curling iron? I will start today and update everybody!! ❤️🙏

[dontsayshannon]

After just watching this video my pinky knuckle scar that was so sensitive & pretty painful feels so much better already. Thank you.

[thequebee_]

I was actually searching for the song and when I saw the title I was like "the heck, it's such a good song", then I realized lol

[mikey]

Partially tore pec and there is small indent where I injured it. Feels like a piece of muscle is missing. Is there a way to fix that??

[aishwaryakapoor]

I got stiches on my thumb and my new tissues is popped up and I want to get rid of it. So would this massage help?

[rivenadeshizzle]

I wish you were my PT! I learned so much more from your video than from my session with my PT who seems to not know so much about scars. I got a diagonal laceration 3 months ago from the middle of my eyebrow down to the edge of my eyelid. So much scar tissue underneath still that my eye looks a bit swollen. Can't wait for it to go away.

[FreeWeezys]

I literally just started massaging my rib surgery scar tissue recently because it feels so tight and it’s been a year now but after massaging it a little bit I can definitely feel a little difference thank you.

[anthonychau]

Hi Dr. Jo, thanks for this video! Over 10 years ago, I had some very large (I think they were) pimples on my nose - they were an extreme, abnormally large size. They popped after a while (there was definitely blood), but when they healed, I know have some bumps on my nose from where they used to be. I assume this is also scar tissue? Would this method still work, even if the they formed over 10 years ago?