Physiotherapy and scar therapy

At Oscare, this aftercare is provided by a specialised team of 5 physiotherapists. In addition to traditional physiotherapy, they use the latest innovative techniques. Below you will find an overview of what we offer.

Mobilisation

If a scar runs across a joint, the tension on the scar can restrict movement – and in severe cases even cause real deformities. That is why the physiotherapist must maintain mobility through postural stretching from the day after surgery. This has to continue for as long as the scar keeps changing. It is also important to prepare patients for their return to social and working life. To this end, patients are reactivated with active exercise therapy on state-of-the-art fitness equipment.

Kineplasty

The appearance of a scar is determined by its thickness (hypertrophy) and the tension on it (retraction – attraction). Both can be greatly improved by manual defibrosis or kineplasty, a recent technique known to only around thirty physiotherapists in Belgium. These manual techniques are applied from 3 weeks after surgery until the scar has fully healed.

Vacuum therapy

Scars older than 6 months can still be very thick or bright red. For such scars, manual treatment is no longer sufficient, but we can use mechanical depressomassage or Endermologie. For this we use PRUS, an innovation in medical science in which the skin is drawn up by negative pressure and thus intensively mobilised.