RECOVERYChoose your first visit SURGICAL PRE-OP & POST-OP · AUSTIN, TX
Plan supported movement and care for muscle comfort around your recovery. Tell Chris about the procedure, healing, and your clinician’s restrictions so the visit can fit alongside rehabilitation.
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Before you visit: health and comfort guidance ↓
01 / HEALED SCARS · TISSUE MOVEMENT
A healed scar can feel tight or sensitive as the surrounding area moves. When your surgical team has cleared local work, gentle scar mobilization and soft-tissue care may help with comfort and flexibility.
Dermal-Fascial Restoration uses controlled tension at the skin to move connected tissue. Chris may consider it around a fully healed surgical scar to explore easier tissue movement and less pulling. The amount of contact follows your healing, medical guidance, and comfort.
Gentle massage and supported movement may ease tension in nearby muscles. The aim is movement that fits your current recovery limits, without forcing the joint or stretching the repair.
Physical therapy guides the exercises that build strength, joint control, and stability. Hands-on care can support comfort alongside that work. Share your exercise plan so the two approaches fit together.
Follow your surgical team’s plan to manage swelling. Chris adjusts or postpones local care when an area is inflamed and can focus on other comfortable areas.
Scar work starts only after the wound has fully healed and your surgical team has cleared it. A closed skin surface alone does not mean the deeper repair is ready.
Clinical scar-care guidance supports massage after a wound has fully healed to help scar flexibility and sensitivity. Readiness also depends on the deeper repair and the surgical team's advice.
A DFR ultrasound report observed tissue movement during skin tension. It does not establish that DFR breaks up surgical scar tissue, removes deep adhesions, or reduces post-surgery inflammation. Benefits specific to surgical recovery remain uncertain.
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital: scar care after surgery · DFR: skin-tension ultrasound report
02 / YOUR SURGEON · YOUR THERAPIST · YOUR GOALS
Tell Chris what you want to return to, whether that is dressing, walking, reaching, or your usual exercise. Start with what your care team has cleared you to do.
Share the procedure, date, wound status, hardware location, and written restrictions. Mention blood thinners, altered sensation, and any complications. Before an operation, check whether your surgeon wants you to pause bodywork.
Use supports and positions that protect the area. Chris can focus on other tense areas while a repair heals. Report sharp pain, pulling at the incision, or new tingling so care can stop or change.
Contact your surgical team promptly for fever, wound drainage, spreading redness, or new one-sided leg swelling or calf pain. Do not massage the area. Call 911 for chest pain or sudden shortness of breath.
Read more: AAOS: warning signs during recovery
YOUR NEXT STEP
You do not need to select a technique before booking. The first visit gives you and Chris time to discuss your goals and begin suitable care.
There is no single waiting period for every operation. Ask your surgical team when hands-on care is suitable and which areas, movements, and pressures are allowed. Share those instructions with Chris before treatment.
Discuss the planned procedure and date with Chris and your surgeon. Suitable care can focus on comfort and muscle tension while you follow any prescribed preparation exercises.
Your physical therapist guides strength, stability, and return to activity. Chris can provide soft-tissue care for comfort and movement alongside that plan, within your prescribed restrictions.
Before booking, tell Chris the procedure and date, the area you want help with, and your surgeon’s or physical therapist’s current restrictions. Local scar work needs appropriate healing and clearance for the specific contact.
FIRST-VISIT PRICES
New clients: choose “FIRST TIME CLIENT” in MassageBook.
First visits must be paid in full in advance.
Choose the amount of time that feels right for you. Both visits include a conversation, movement review, and hands-on care. The 90-minute option gives you another 30 minutes together.
The first 15–20 minutes are for your history, goals, and movement review. Hands-on care follows within your appointment time.
Your time is one-to-one with Chris in his private studio. The support, pace, and pressure follow your needs.
Optional kinesiology taping adds $20 to a first visit. DFR® is not usually needed at the first visit.
Returning client? Book your next sessionOPTIONAL READING
OPTIONAL READING
Before surgery, care can focus on comfort and tension around an affected area. After surgery, the repair needs protection. Your surgeon and physical therapist set the limits for movement, pressure, and loading.
A repaired rotator cuff or other reattached tendon needs time to heal to bone. Chris works within your prescribed range and sling instructions. Strong stretching or traction may be unsuitable while the repair heals.
After surgery to stabilize a leg fracture, tell Chris where the hardware is and how much weight you may put on the leg. Care around the area must respect bone healing and sensitive tissue.
The goal is useful, comfortable movement around the joint as recovery allows. Share any position or movement restrictions. Chris adapts support and contact to your current rehabilitation plan.
Read more: AAOS: rotator cuff repair and rehabilitation · AAOS: shinbone fractures and surgical rods · AAOS: activity after hip replacement
Reviewed by Chris Corona · Review confirmed