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Traumatic Scars and Associated Impairments
Before we discuss assessment and treatment, we need to identify what we are
assessing and treating. In clarifying the focus of this book, it is important to
make a distinction between postsurgical abdominal and visceral adhesions and
the authors’ defined traumatic scars. Postsurgical abdominal/visceral adhesions
and manual visceral work are not discussed as the authors’ acknowledge that this
area is comprehensively covered elsewhere.
This is not to imply that we do not address the abdominal region; as a region it is
addressed, but the work is directed to the skin, fascia, muscles, vessels and
nerves rather than, specifically, the adherences between viscera and articulating
tissues and structures.