Waaay back when I was in massage school…
We looked for one-size-fits-all answers to highly individualized questions.
That doesn’t work anymore!
In this episode we consider a number of questions about massage therapy for surgical patients—when, where, how, what, and more. Of course the answer is always “it depends”—but WHAT does it depend ON?
Resources: 
Pocket Pathology: /abmp-pocket-pathology-app
Hospital-Based Massage Therapy course:
https://www.healwell.org/hospital-based-massage-therapy
Scar Tissue course with Cathy Ryan:
https://online.healwell.org/courses/scar-class-2023
Traumatic Scar Tissue Management by Nancy Keeny-Smith and Catherine Ryan, published by Handspring/Singing Dragon:
https://us.singingdragon.com/products/traumatic-scar-tissue-management
“A Doctor’s Note is Not Good Enough… and what is better”: