hey guys it’s Hina Sheth here from rebalance physical therapy in Philadelphia and the mainline of Pennsylvania and today I want to speak to all of you that might be experiencing some type of abdominal or groin pain after having abdominal surgery and you know abdominal surgeries can vary from everything from you know abdominal surgery to laparoscopic surgery for maybe like a hysterectomy or prolapse and for you men any you know any type of maybe a pen you know you had your appendix taken out of an appendectomy so
any of you men and women that are experiencing some type of abdominal pain after having abdominal surgery and you’ve gone back to the surgeon or you’ve talked to other you know medical providers and you’re not really coming up with any answers or maybe they’re telling you oh you know it could be some type of scar tissue I’m here to talk to all of you about what can be done to help the pain that you might be experiencing now any time for those of you that may not know what I’m talking
about any time that you have some type of incision that is made especially from a surgery into the abdomen so again for you ladies c-sections are very common you know hysterectomies that they go in at like different portals okay that they use and again for all of you men that might be having any type of you know any type of other surgery appendectomy any type of abdominal surgery hernia surgery anything like that what can happen is that your body is going to want to heal any type of you know opening that has
basically happened from that surgical repair and so what happens is new tissue lays down which is called scar tissue this is not much different than when you get a cut and you form a scab and you know it heals over time but because any type of surgery is very deep you also have healing that happening from the inside out okay now when that happens many times some people well everyone’s gonna form some type of scar but for some people they’re going to form scarring that is more has more attention that is it’s tougher than
other people and this can vary for various reasons due to genetics just your healing type the way that you heal you know and that can have a lot to do with different you know nutrition kind of just the way your body heals but what can basically happen is you form scar tissue and that scar tissue you know kind of imagine like a cobweb that can form internally and it can actually adhere on two different things what’s in your body different things such as other muscles tendons ligaments bones and your organs okay and sometimes even if the
scar tissue can wrap around organs it can actually also affect the functioning of those organs in our clinic you know because this is kind of a specialty area that we treat we have lots of people coming in you know I can’t even count how many that we’ve treated for various types of scar tissue that can cause everything from you know just your general abdominal pain that no one can figure out where it’s coming from – you know bladder issues such as frequency urgency retention and it can also cause
you know what some people feel like it could be like an ovary type pain for you men it can also cause neurologic issues you know I again I can go into all the different case studies that I’ve seen but it causes all sorts of different sorts of organ related pain so I want to show you this picture and this is actually taken I got it off of clear passage but this is kind of what ends up happening so this is basically the you know the body and they cut the abdomen off so that you can see the organs now anytime that you have some type of
surgery and I hope you guys can see this you’re going to have scar tissue that and form so again just imagine like little cobwebs that have formed internally and depending on how deep they went for your surgery you know each say if they went in and they did like a c-section okay so they cut this area open so you’re gonna think okay there’s gonna be a scar a little bit of a scar there but if that’s scar it you know there’s a lot of different things that happen during surgery but that scar can
actually go pretty deep and in here down to the bladder this is a picture of the bladder it can go down and it can adhere on to parts of the intestines if you have a laparoscopic surgery you know depending on where they put the portals okay where they go in with different instruments that look like thin rods you know those are gonna kind of go deep and they’re gonna have to move those rods around so then you can also have scar tissue that forms in all different area including underneath you know this liver
area around the stomach so it can cause GI distress IBS type stuff constipation I just had a woman that you know came in the other day actually I’ve had two women that have come in in the last month that both had hysterectomy surgery from a laparoscopic procedure and they ended up having constipation type symptoms they’re having sharp pain with intercourse that shoots them to the abdomen you know one of the women the main thing she noticed is if she butted up against anything or she leaned against a table that that would cause a
lot of abdominal pain that she was having or she couldn’t wear tight clothing because that would give her pain and and one of the other woman was also having pain with sitting so she just had constant pain all the time but it would actually get worse with sitting so again this could be something if you are experiencing pain after having an abdominal surgery and again you’ve had everything kind of ruled out and no one’s been able to give you a good answer then it could be abdominal scar tissue now what do you do for it so now
that I’ve explained that this could be it well you could try working on it yourself just doing some light abdominal massage around the Dumon okay but from my experience I haven’t seen that that’s necessarily helped when people are having you know symptoms enough where they’re seeking out help and usually what it does need is that it needs the skill and the care and the evaluation from a good pelvic floor physical therapist that really understands how to treat holistically okay so again I’m a public floor therapist
you know I’ve been doing this for about 20 years and this is what we kind of do it our clinic is worse you know anyone who’s had any type of abdominal skirt surgery or any type of scar for that matter from a surgery that’s one of the things that were you know evaluating and we’re treating and there’s different techniques that public floor physical therapists can use that they’ve learned from a whole host of different courses that they’ve taken their own self experience but there’s ways that you can
actually elongate or and even break up the scar okay so if you do not if you obviously if you live in the Philadelphia area or the main line around Philadelphia then you know you can give us a call and and visit us and we’d be more than happy to evaluate you we treat this all the time however if you don’t live in the Philadelphia area I would encourage you to find a public floor physical therapists that knows how to treat in an integrated holistic vest fashion that also understands orthopedics because that’s gonna be a
big part especially for those of you that are also experiencing joint type pain so maybe a hip pain back pain those things like that but that that could be important too it’s not necessary but it could be important so if you need help finding a public floor physical therapists near your area then shoot me an email you can go onto our website it’s rebalance PT comm so that’s our e be a LAN C EP t calm you can shoot us an email and just you know let us know if you need help finding a physical therapist we have you know
there’s lots of different physical therapists that I know around the country that very very good and if I don’t know someone in your area I will find you the resource where you can find one so I hope this was helpful to you and have a wonderful day
