Preoperative therapy, including lymphatic drainage and connective tissue therapy, helps prepare your body for surgery. Lymphatic drainage stimulates the lymphatic system, aiding in waste and congested fluid removal. Connective tissue therapy targets adhesions, tension, and old scarring, promoting improved circulation and tissue health. These therapies help to reduce inflammation, swelling, and bruising, which can help minimize the risk of complications and optimize your surgical outcome.

Preoperative lymphatic drainage is a gentle technique that stimulates the lymphatic system, also known as your immunity system, aiding in waste and excess fluid removal at the site of your upcoming surgery.

Additionally, deep breathing and meditation promote relaxation, reduce anxiety, and help you achieve a more relaxed and prepared mindset. Combining these three effective modalities during the days leading up to surgery can help ease stress and worry, promoting a sense of calm and trust in your decision to have surgery.

Visiting our clinic preoperatively will also ensure you’re already acquainted with our location and suite, creating a sense of comfort and familiarity. This eliminates the added stress of finding a new place fresh out of surgery and allows you to focus solely on your recovery.

Meeting with our experienced therapists before surgery provides continuous support and customized care. This personalized support helps alleviate confusion caused by information overload and ensures clearer conversations with your surgeon. 

After surgery we spend 1 – 3 hours per week working closely with you, treating the affected areas, monitoring for potential complications, and addressing your expectations and any concerns. 

In addition to the expected physical challenges, we understand the recovery process can be both mentally and emotionally challenging. Some patients experience postoperative depression. Our therapists provide a safe space for you to share your ups and downs during recovery.

We listen and help to address any concerns or uncertainties you may have, ensuring your experience and desired results are our primary focus. We work closely with your surgeon and their staff, maintaining an ongoing dialog which helps create a team of support. You are not alone.

We understand that the recovery process can be emotionally challenging, and post-operative depression can be a common experience. Our therapists provide a safe space for you to share your ups and downs during recovery. We work closely with your surgeon and their staff, echoing the same information and ensuring that your experience and beautiful results are our primary focus. Our goal is to be a consistent source of support, addressing any concerns or uncertainties you may have.

Combining our specialized scar tissue technique with postoperative lymphatic drainage sets us apart. With 25 years of experience working with well-respected surgeons in the Bay Area, we have developed effective techniques to address scar tissue postoperatively. While we have learned what works best, the ongoing opportunity to observe various surgeries in the OR provides us with a unique understanding of your procedure. Our expertise ensures you will receive the most effective treatment for minimizing scarring and optimizing healing.

After surgery the internal scar tissue is part of the body’s natural healing response but scar tissue lacks the flexibility and elasticity of normal healthy tissue. Reducing swelling, restoring scar tissue and increasing ROM to the traumatized area is our main focus.

We also focus on aesthetics by reducing all unwanted signs of surgery like incision pulling and lumpy liposuction. Often times when you discover a “botched” after photo online what you’re really seeing is a patient who didn’t receive proper scar tissue therapy. Lymphatic drainage therapy does not address scar tissue.

In all cases we want to achieve natural looking results without obvious scarring wherever possible. We believe patients undergoing any type of surgery should have the opportunity to treat the affected areas in safe ways using proven therapies.

In addition to our services, we offer recommendations based on years of patient feedback. These recommendations include details like remembering to have the proper recovery set up at home, hiring an overnight companion, preoperative colonics, immune system boosters, nutrition advice, and more.

We can also refer you to skilled surgeons if you have yet to choose one.