During and after cancer treatment it is important to that you keep doing the things you enjoy and keep being you! Cancer treatment can be overwhelming and cause physical and psychological changes. By getting to know you, our caring team help you maintain and regain your strength and fitness, improve your confidence and feel in control.
Why should we be a part of your Cancer Team?
By guiding and supporting you through your cancer treatment and helping to minimise the side effects, we can help improve your long term wellbeing.
The benefits our services provide include:
• Restoring function, movement and strength
• Reducing pain and easing muscular tension
• Managing scars and other related post-operative conditions
• Delivering safe, individualised exercise programs
• Managing fatigue, both during and after treatment and improving energy levels
• Providing self-management strategies to help you maintain your health
• Shifting focus from illness to wellness
What treatments do we use?
• Hands on manual therapy including massage, myofascial release and joint mobilisations
• Scar therapy using the Restore Scar Therapy Method
• Individualised clinical pilates, stretching and breathing techniques
• Fatigue management
• Exercise prescription and resistance training
Scar Therapy
As your body heals after an injury, scar tissue forms. Scar tissue is fibrotic and less mobile then pre-injury. Adhesions may form, sticking together layers under the skin. Scar therapy is a method of non-invasive physiotherapy developed to treat scar tissue, fibrosis and adhesions. We use specialist scar massage and fascial release, therapy tools and self-care advice to promote healthy recovery.
How can scar therapy help?
- ~ Reduce common symptoms, such as pain, sensitivity and numbness.
- ~ Stimulate change to scar tissue on the skin surface, and to adhesions or fibrosis in the underlying tissue.
- ~ Promote functional and cosmetic improvements after surgery or injury that creates scar tissue.
- ~ Improve pulling or puckering of scars.
