Supportive Practice
Massage adapted to healing stage, surgical area, medical guidance, and the person’s current tolerance after a procedure.
Careful bodywork after surgery, paced by healing status and coordinated when needed with the medical team.
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One tool within an individualized session.
Post-surgical bodywork is an umbrella term for massage adapted after an operation. It may address general comfort, positioning, movement, or fully healed tissue, but the appropriate approach depends on the procedure, healing stage, complications, and surgeon’s guidance.
The approach is adapted to the person and context rather than applied as a fixed formula.
From technique to session
A few ways this approach could fit your care. These sessions are starting points, and techniques can be considered across any session. Together, we choose what fits your preferences, your needs that day, and your practitioner’s training.
Tend
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
A closer look
Early work may avoid the surgical area entirely. Later, and only when tissue is closed and medically appropriate, a trained practitioner may use gentle contact near or around healed areas and adapt pressure, duration, and position.
The pace, pressure, position, and duration are adjusted through ongoing consent and feedback.
Sessions are typically conservative and may use extra bolstering, shorter duration, or work away from the surgical site. Tenderness, fatigue, and tolerance can change from day to day.
The work can be paused, changed, or stopped at any time.
Massage may be considered as supportive care during recovery, but it does not accelerate healing, prevent complications, dissolve adhesions, or replace physical therapy and medical follow-up.
Responses vary. This information is educational and does not replace medical assessment or care.
Thoughtful care
Massage is not performed over an open wound, active infection, new redness or drainage, unexplained swelling, suspected blood clot, fever, or an unstable surgical area. Medical clearance and procedure-specific training may be needed, especially after cancer treatment, abdominal or chest surgery, joint replacement, or complications.
When symptoms are new, severe, unexplained, or changing quickly, medical evaluation comes before massage.
This page is educational and does not diagnose, treat, or replace medical care. Research and individual responses vary across manual therapy approaches.
Wild Hart uses this technique only within current training, legal scope, informed consent, and the needs of the session.
