Hello, I'm Julie Tupler creator of the Tupler Technique and this week I'm going to talk about scar mobilization
this is very important when we're
Working on closing our diastasis because if you have a scar
There's a stuffed Ness there and if there's a stuckness there
It's going to be hard for the connective tissue to remodel
When you get cut what happens is in the formation of the scar
the layers of tissue
Adhere together and it's an adhesion
So when you have that when the layers of tissue are stuck
The stuckness causes pain and it's going to be difficult as I said to close the diastasis. So the goal is with scar
mobilization to
unstick
The layers of tissue that are stuck together with the scar
All right, that's really important to
help close the diastasis
so with scar mobilization there's
three things that you can do
Now you want to start scar mobilization
when the scars healed
You might not want to touch the scar because it's Naaman and you're just queasy about it. And that's okay
You don't have to mobilize it but it usually takes between six and eight weeks
You really want to make sure that that scar is healed
If you don't want to mobilize it with your hands and what I mean when I say mobilize it with your hands
So if this is my scar
mobilizing it means getting underneath it and getting it unstuck from
The layers of tissue underneath they're supposed to move freely so that's what you're doing
You want to go this way? You want to get underneath it. You want to stretch it on each side
all right, so really freeing it up from being stuck from the other layers of tissue because there's a stuckness as
So that's the one thing that you can do and I on the tumblr tips
I have a wonderful article by a physical therapist and I go into more detail on these Scout mobilization
So please do read them. The second way is with the taping you can use a kinesio tape you can use my tape and
Basically, just putting that on the scarf now
What?
happens with that, is that when you
pull the tape it wants to
recoil
to its original unstretched position
so when you put that on your c-section scar when you
Take it and put it on the seat stretch it and put on the c-section scar
What happens it's going to move this way and that recoiling is going to be pulling or stretching on
that scar
when you use it on the belly, it's a communication between the
the skin the muscles and the connective tissue that they're moving in this direction and that's what we're doing with our
our splint and when we double splint is is
approximating and and teaching the body that this is where we want the muscles in the connective tissue to be so it's it's
So what it's doing with the c-section scar it's like pulling on the scar and that's good
It's because that's what with scar mobilization you're wanting to stretch it and pull it in and get it unstuck from the layers underneath
the third thing that
you can do there's physical therapists that have laser and then there's this on dolphin machine, which is
a
microcurrent and it's these little machines that I have a picture up in the article and basically
This uses electric current on each side of the scar to mobilize it and the research on this is fabulous
I'm recording this
in June of
2018 and I am taking a course on scar mobilization
The end of this month so I probably will be talking more about this
maybe in one of the webinars, but this is something that
That therapist can use and they told me that sometimes
People can just mobilize their own scar with this
Also, if you want more information, I'm certainly glad to give you more information as soon as they take the course
Anyway, so those are the three ways that you can mobilize the scar but just remember that this is very important
in
Closing your diastasis so that there's more movement of the connective tissue in no stuckness. Okay. Thanks