mindful awareness tips for abdominal surgery recovery

8 Tips for Mindful Awareness in Recovery 
1. Keloid scars. Additional scarring resulting in an “overgrowth” or “raised
scar tissue” on the site of skin injury/ incision.

2. Wait period. At least one year before attempting corrective revision
surgery. Additional scar tissue has the possibility of going away on its own
within that time.

3. Topical therapies. Removes the outer layer of scar tissue, but not the
entire area.

4. Botox. Can help with pain but wont help with appearance.

5. Physio. Can be helpful to areas like the Back, Abdomen and Limbs to
improve range of motion.

6. Scar tissue weight. Scar tissue can reduce the supply of blood flow to
areas of the body which can feel like nerve pain or numbness. It takes
approximately 6-8 weeks for the body to fully remodel injured tissue.Some
scar tissue in fat tissues can make weight loss hard because of oxygen
starvation to the affected area.

7. Serrapeptase. Is the body’s natural enzyme dissolving scar tissue: as a
systemic proteolytic enzyme, it works to dissolve the fibrin proteins that
make up scar tissue and has the unique ability to recognize what is
necessary and what is excess in the body. It also has the distinct ability to
digest only non-living tissue and make proteins break down much faster.

8. Acceptance and love . Love your body for all that it is, and all that it has
overcome!! Scars are a reminder that healing is taking place- it needs
unconditional love too !!

NAVIGATING THROUGH ABDOMINAL SCAR TISSUE PAIN:
1. Yoga - Restorative, Hatha, and Slow Flow Yoga. Sometimes I do Sun Salutation A’s, 1-15 times as a stretch-flow to warm my body up and give my internal organs a nice stretch.

2. Breathing techniques - Nostril breathing, Three-part Breathing, Skull
breathing, and breathing into pain using Visual Breath Imagery to send full
cycles of breath into painful areas of my body.

3. Core strength - Plank variations with knees down, elbows at a 90
degree and are hugged in tightly toward my rib cage. On days where more
challenge is needed I work with high plank holds and flow through yogic
“chaturanga” movement.

4. Self-massage - gentle circular motion in the scar tissue area, with two
fingers (sort of like a “Thai-Massage” style.)
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5. REST - Honour my bodily limits and simply relax in a comfortable way
that feels good to my body in that moment. Meditation too, is a wonderful
resting technique for the body to explore.