General · Mid recovery
Scar Massage
How to do it
Sit comfortably and locate your scar. Use your fingertips to gently move the skin around the scar in small circles, then up and down and side to side.
- Body region
- General
- Position
- Seated
- Equipment
- No equipment
- Recovery phase
- Mid recovery
- Purpose
- Strengthening
Used in home programs for
- Carpal Tunnel Release
- Dupuytren's Fasciectomy
- Extensor Tendon Repair
- Flexor Tendon Repair
- Lateral Epicondyle Release
- Lateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow)
- Trigger Finger Release
Put this in a program
Clinicians build a printed or phone-delivered home exercise program from 831 photographed exercises. No account to build or print.
Related exercises
This page describes one exercise as it appears in the BoneArc library so a clinician can decide whether it belongs in a patient's program. It is not a prescription. Follow the plan your own clinician gave you.