Understanding
Understanding this experience
Surgical recovery is shaped by the procedure, healing stage, medical guidance, activity changes, and the wider care context.
Thoughtful support as your body adapts after surgery.
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Pain & Recovery
Recovering After Surgery
After surgery, comfort, sensation, movement, energy, and confidence may change. Once medically appropriate, bodywork can be considered as supportive care alongside surgical follow-up and rehabilitation.
Recognition
You may recognize some of this.
- Movement, rest, or daily routines feel different after a procedure
- Guarding, sensitivity, swelling, or fatigue affect what feels manageable
- You want support that respects surgical precautions and your current capacity
Ways to begin
Sessions to explore
A few ways to begin. Your session can be adapted around what matters to you.
Tend
Post-Surgical Support
Supportive bodywork shaped around surgical recovery, with attention to comfortable positioning, sensitive areas, postoperative guidance, and the practitioner’s training for any specialized work.
$150
60 min
$225
90 min
$300
120 min
$450
180 min
Tend
Persistent Pain Support
Adaptable bodywork for ongoing or recurring pain, with pressure, positioning, and pace shaped around how you feel today and what you have learned about yourself.
$150
60 min
$225
90 min
$300
120 min
$450
180 min
Pause
Quiet Stillness
Gentle, sustained touch with subtle movement and time to settle. A spacious session with minimal conversation, little or no lotion, and the option to remain clothed.
$225
90 min
$300
120 min
$450
180 min
Related techniques
Techniques that may support this care
Our approach
Care shaped around you
We begin by listening to what has changed, what guidance you have received, and what feels manageable now. Care is paced collaboratively and avoids direct work near a surgical site until the tissue is fully closed, medically stable, and appropriate for touch.
Possibility
How bodywork may help
When medically appropriate, bodywork may offer attentive touch, movement exploration, and space to notice compensation or changing capacity. It should complement—not replace—surgical follow-up, rehabilitation, or other medical care.
Together
What we might explore
- Current capacity and the pace of returning to ordinary activity
- Guarding, compensation, sensitivity, and changing movement strategies
- How supportive care can complement surgical follow-up or rehabilitation
Before we begin
Important considerations
Bodywork should follow the surgical team’s guidance and the stage of healing. A recent or open incision, fever, drainage, increasing redness or pain, unexplained swelling, or new and worsening symptoms require appropriate medical guidance before bodywork.
Practitioners
