Your Scars Part 1: Cesarian Sections
When your tissue is cut, either by a surgeon or an injury, small nerves my be severed, mashed or stretched. As your body heals, those nerves heal a bit more slowly and can bring all kinds of weird sensations as well as numbness that may last for a very long time.
“After a cut, it often takes a long while for nerve endings to repair and to come back online, they itch and tingle and then reroute around the scar. Sensation and communication come back, but differently. After surgery, some women describe losing contact with the pelvic floor altogether — the proprioceptive anchors gone, nerves disrupted, fascia restricted, the floor unable to find itself. Cesareans, episiotomies, abdominal surgeries — on the physical map, scars bind fascia and can sever nerves; on the subtle map, what cuts the tissue cuts the current. Both maps call for reweaving: the slow, deliberate remapping through breath, imagery, touch, and downtraining that the practices provide. The map can be redrawn."
Christine-Marie Mason, Founder of Rosebud Woman
Proprioception-our internal sense of our bodies-how we know where our limbs are, for example-changes when nerves are cut or damaged. The body has to rewire. Getting it back to where it was beforehand may or may not happen, depending on the injury.
With many scars, stimulation works. There is mounting evidence that massage really helps the body to regain sensation and proprioception. So it is very possible that massage, along with movement heals the damage faster and better than leaving the scar alone.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, scars are like dams in a river-they interrupt energy flow and affect the entire body. This creates stagnation on one side of the scar and deficiency on the other. The treatment is acupuncture/acupressure and Gua Sha. The objective is to increase circulation in the area to open up the dam and restore the flow of energy. I do scar work and can teach you how to work your Cesarean scars to help normalize the tissues.
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