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How To Look After Your Breast Cancer Surgery Scars

Dr Liz - So Now I've Got Breast Cancer

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In this episode of 'So Now I've Got Breast Cancer' with Dr Liz O'Riordan, I'm talking to Scar Therapist Joana Pedroso

Did you know that after breast surgery your scars can become stuck and painful? This is where a good scar therapist can come in, and I wish I’d known this sooner after my mastectomy. Joana Pedroso is a trained cancer scar therapist who wants everyone to be able to move freely again and she explained why scars get stuck and what we can do about it.

Listener note - if you can watch his episode on Youtube or Spotify, there’s quite a lot to see, so you may get more out of it that way. But if that’s not possible I’ve done my best to describe it!

Show notes

Joana’s instagram Instagram: joanasbowen_scartherapy
Joana’s website - https://www.joanasbowentherapy.co.uk
Find a scar therapist (global) -https://restorescartherapy.com/

6 Comments

@amycrochetjourney 11 days ago

Thankyou Liz for these podcasts they are so informative and it's quite humbling to hear your experience after being a breast cancer surgeon and then a patient - how this has changed your perception on what a patient goes through before and after. It's something that gets forgotten about once you've had your surgery you are just left in some areas of the country to just get on with it. I am very lucky in that I have access to Macmillan services post breast cancer and I wouldn't be without them I have cording and tight scars after a sentinel node biopsy and lumpectomy, further Wide local excision and then a SMX as the dam thing wanted to come back. I have the tethering between the two scars now to deal with as well as the tightness over the mastectomy scar on my chest. Massaging (diy) and exercising doesn't help i really need the scar therapist to go at it!!

@ShanévanderBerg-i3q 12 days ago

This is useful, gentle advice, thank you.

@maryannmartin4067 10 days ago

Thank you. This is so helpful.

@thebeachbabe2722 8 days ago

Is gentle swimming good to help with movement when you have a scar?

@NM-qc2dh 12 days ago

Seems to me she has learned more about her subject after retirement than during active employment. Perhaps she shouldn’t advertise her previous profession. Professional lack of knowledge is not just disappointing it’s terrifying for patients.

@NM-qc2dh 12 days ago

So she hated her own scar and yet she scarred so many women without a second thought, and how proud she was and is of wielding her scalpel and being a “ Breast Surgeon. “ A dose of humility is a wonderful antidote not only for ignorance but also for arrogance. Some clinicians never stop using patients for self affirmation, and in this case now for personal emotional therapy. So she is helping us, and absolutely not herself a lie many clinicians tell themselves as well as us. She is patronising and nauseating but bless her poor thing.