Fort Collins Surgery Massage

Fort Collins Surgery Massage is a specialty of LymphWorks therapists. Surgery recovery presents unique problems that our training and techniques may address to get you healed quickly and back to your daily routine. Whether your surgery was to repair a joint, plastic surgery, breast cancer, or surgery due to disease, accident or trauma, we can help. Both therapist C.J. and Lindsey are adept at techniques for swelling and pain reduction, improved circulation and range of motion, scar realignment and more.

Benefits of Lymph Drainage Therapy Pre-Surgery:

Prepares tissue for surgery and clean incisions
Alleviates edema / swelling
Detoxifies tissue
Stimulates the immune system and accelerates production of lymphocytes
Induces a state of relaxation; parasympathetic response
Surgeons find it easier to make incision through clean, well-drained tissue (2)

Benefits of Fort Collins surgery massage, Lymph Drainage Therapy, and energy healing after surgery may include:

Reduces recovery time
Reduces edema or swelling after surgery (1)
Reduces pain
Alleviates spasms (parasympathetic response) (1)
Increases range of motion
Improves fluid circulation
Drug or anesthesia detoxification
Increases immune function reducing likelihood of infection1
Counteracts the effects of immobilization in bed (2)
Improves scar appearance and function
Reduces likelihood of more surgery to address scar tissue
Stress and anxiety reduction
Reduces inflammation
Improves sleep
Helps stimulate lymphatic "reroutes" or alternative pathways for lymphatics to move (1)

Your surgical site should often not to be touched until six weeks after your procedure when incisions and scars are mature enough to be manipulated or stretched.

However, Lymph Drainage Therapy and Energy Healing techniques are both gentle enough to be done on and around the surgical site 24 hours after your procedure or as soon as your surgeon approves.

Massage therapy can be safely performed away from the surgical site on other areas of the body during the first six weeks after your procedure.

For pre-surgery Lymph Drainage Therapy, it is recommended you receive one to two 30 minute sessions prior to your procedure.

Post-surgical swelling and pain reduces with just one 30 minute session of gentle touch Lymph Drainage Therapy "as long as there are no other untreated factors stimulating swelling" (2). The average person will experience a significant improvement after four to eight 30 minute surgery massage sessions depending on the severity or your surgical intervention.

Additional techniques such as Kinesio taping may be used in your surgery recovery and in the management of your post surgical swelling.

Kineseotaping may be used after surgery (knee replacement above) to aid in swelling reduction & activation of muscles to stabilize the joint

Please contact CJ or one of our Lymphworks therapists to ask which therapy or combination of therapies is right for your Fort Collins surgery massage needs.

Note: It is advised you seek the consult and advice of your surgeon before seeking post-surgical massage services or Lymph drainage therapy services.

Resources:
(1) Bruno Chikly, M.D., http://chiklyinstitute.org/ldt/applications.htm, Chikly Health Institute, Lymph Drainage Therapy Level I, pg. 311. 2009.
(2) Bruno Chikly, M.D., Alaya Chikly, CMT. "Applications of Pre & Post-Surgical Lymph Drainage Therapy". Massage & BodyWork, Summer/Fall 1997.