Everyone Needs Manual Therapy After Fibroid Surgery to Treat Adhesions
What To Expect After Fibroid Surgery
- Fibroid surgery is generally an out patient surgery so you will go home the same day
- You could have your fibroids removed by laproscopy or hysteroscopy.
- Only on rare occasions when the fibroids are very large or you have severe scaring will the fibroids be removed by open surgery (abdominal myomectomy)
- If your fibroids are removed by laproscopy, you will have four incisions in your abdomen
- If you fibroids are removed by hysteroscopy, you will have the fibroids pulled out through your vagina with no incisions
- Most patients will be fully recovered in 1-2 weeks
- If you have an open abdominal surgery or hysterectomy, you will stay in the hospital for a night or two and your recovery will take 6-8 weeks.
The Benefits of Manual Hands-On Therapy After Fibroid Surgery
All surgery creates adhesions.
Adhesions are disorganized scar tissue inside your body that restrict proper movement and creates pain.
Manual hands-on therapy is a drugless, non-surgical way to melt adhesions and improve mobility and function.
If you want to have a baby after having fibroid surgery
You will definitely need manual hands-on therapy to help liberate the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and uterus from adhesions and optimize your ability to get pregnant.
What To Expect from Manual Hands-On Therapy After Fibroid Surgery?
Approximately 8 weeks after surgery when your incisions are healed and you have recovered you will be eligible for manual hands-on therapy.
Dr. Caroline Peterson will not only treat your uterus and ovaries.
She will situate your uterus and ovaries within your whole body by starting up at the collar bones and working down.
It is important to include pelvic floor therapy in the rehabilitation of the uterus.
The manual hands-on therapy is done to your tolerance.
How Much Manual Hands-On Therapy Will I Need After Fibroid Surgery?
After fibroid surgery you will need approximately 20 hours of manual hands-on therapy.
Will I Need to Take Any Supplements After Fibroid Surgery?
Because fibroids represent an estrogenic, angiogenic, inflammatory condition that frequently reoccurs, Dr. Caroline Peterson will recommend supportive nutrition to slow the growth of future fibroids.
If you want to get pregnant, there will be a different supplement protocol.