Live: B3 Scars Workshop: Understanding How Scars Disrupt Stability and Function

Duration: 90 minutes
Date: Saturday, 8 March 2025 
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Location: 74 Regent Road, Studio 206, Sea Point  

This 90-minute workshop is for everyone with a scar—whether it is from a C-section, knee surgery, an old injury, or even a childhood fall. 

You will learn simple, effective techniques to release scar tension, restore movement, and feel more at ease in your body.

✅ Learn how scars impact movement, pain, and flexibility
✅ Discover hands-on techniques to reset scar tissue
✅ Improve your posture, muscle activation, and overall function

Common Problems Linked to Scars:

❌ Stiffness in your back, hips, or neck
❌ Unexplained pain or muscle weakness
❌ Feeling "off" in movement or posture
❌ Numbness, tingling, or tightness around a scar
❌ Recurring injuries or slow healing
❌ Digestive issues or pelvic discomfort (from abdominal scars)

Beneath the Surface

Discover how scars, external and internal affect core stability, movement, and overall health. Learn practical techniques to assess, address, and heal scar tissue, helping you move freely and live pain-free.

This workshop explores the interplay of scars, muscle dynamics, and fascia for enhanced movement, pain relief, and core stability.

Scars are the most unidentified cause of health complaints. Find out how all scars disrupt core stability and impact motor control. 

Uncover the hidden connection between scars and muscle dysfunction—improve movement, reduce pain, and restore strength

Participants will learn techniques to assess scars, including palpation for depth, distance, and adhesions.

Learn to assess how scars disrupt muscle function and how to test for it.

This workshop aims to reactivate core muscles and fascia disrupted by scars, renewing hope for scar tissue healing and restoring movement.

It highlights the often overlooked diagnostic significance of scars in pain and dysfunction.

Scars are often overlooked as a cause of pain, dysfunction, and diminished core stability.

How to recognise scar disturbance?

Attendees will gain techniques and approaches to regain motor control over scar tissue and restore function, emphasising the need to analyse scars for their impact on muscle recruitment and neuromuscular disturbances.

This workshop dives deep  into the disruptive nature of scars on core stability, exploring how they alter motor control and diminish sensory feedback within affected fascial areas. 

As an example, C-scars are the great disruptors of core stability. C-scars affect abdominal stability because scars change motor control.  Sensory feedback is reduced in fascia where scars are present and even affects synergists or muscles in the same kinetic chain as c-scars.

We will look into the influence c-scars have on hip pain, knee pain, foot problems and bunions.

Why Attend?
Scars disrupt the fascia, reduce sensory feedback, and interfere with muscle recruitment. In this workshop, you will learn how scars can contribute to chronic pain, movement restrictions, and visceral tension.

We will teach you how to assess scar tissue with palpation techniques and provide actionable approaches to reactivate affected muscles and fascia.

What you will learn

• The interplay of scars, fascia, and muscle dynamics.
• How to assess scar tissue for depth, adhesions, and motor control disruption.
• Techniques to restore motor control, improve movement patterns, and relieve pain.
• Links between scar tissue and symptoms such as lower back pain, pelvic discomfort, and even headaches or jaw tension.

Gain practical solutions to address the challenges posed by Scars.

Through innovative approaches, attendees will acquire strategies to regain motor control over scar tissue regions and restore optimal function.

Regardless of scar age, it is crucial to analyse their impact on an individual's ability to recruit affected muscles, as even long-standing scars can induce neuromuscular disturbances that impede motor control. 

Research shows that if the same person performs the same movement, the electrical activity measures higher around scar tissue than in the presence of undamaged skin. This suggests that muscles that have scars tend to test offline/weak because there is an overactive neural drive into the muscle, causing spasm and reducing contractility.

This applies to every part of the body where scar tissue is present. If a movement or muscle tests offline and sensory input onto a scar makes it strong, it suggests that the scar tissue has an overactive neural drive and to restore balance, the myofascia around a scar needs to be worked on.

💥Benefits of Learning and Understanding the Effects of Scars on the Body (Including Piercings & Tattoos)

✔ Restore Natural Movement – Reduce stiffness and improve flexibility by addressing restrictions caused by scar tissue.

✔ Relieve Unexplained Pain – Scars can create tension and dysfunction in unexpected areas like the back, hips, and neck—understanding them helps resolve lingering discomfort.

✔ Enhance Posture & Alignment – Learn how scars pull on fascia and muscles, affecting posture and balance, and how to reset them.

✔ Improve Muscle Activation & Strength – Scar tissue can cause certain muscles to weaken or turn “offline.” By releasing restrictions, you regain better muscle function.

✔ Reduce Sensory Numbness & Tingling – Learn techniques to restore sensation and improve nerve communication in areas affected by scars, piercings, or tattoos.

✔ Ease Emotional & Physical Tension – Scars hold not just physical restrictions but emotional imprints. Working with them can help release both.

✔ Support Organ & Systemic Health – Abdominal scars (like C-section or appendix scars) can impact digestion, breathing, and even pelvic health—learning to work with them can improve overall function.

✔ Boost Circulation & Healing – Freeing up restricted tissue improves blood flow, lymphatic drainage, and oxygenation, speeding up healing and reducing inflammation.

✔ Prevent Future Complications – Addressing scar-related dysfunction now can prevent chronic pain, joint issues, and compensatory movement patterns down the line.

✔ Understand How Piercings & Tattoos Affect the Body – Learn how body modifications influence fascia, nerve pathways, and muscle activation—and how to maintain balance despite them.

This knowledge isn’t just about scars—it is about how your body moves, feels, and functions as a whole.

How do scars weaken your health and cause chronic pain?

Scars must be analysed regarding a person’s ability to recruit the muscles that are affected by the scar.

No matter how old the scar, motor control may still be reduced because of the neuromuscular disturbance inflicted by the scar. 

The skin surface and the underlying fascia is the mechanism in which the nervous system communicates. 

In B3 practice, we emphasise the importance of scar tissue and include questioning for scars in our evaluation of clients.

We look at the client as a system and not just a symptom. 

Understand the cause of pain:

Do you want to ease your pain…?

• lower back pain
• stress and anxiety- heightened sympathetic nervous system response
• stiffness of the spine
• headaches
• jaw tension
• eye and vision problems
• lower abdominal pain
• pelvic pain
• links to infertility
• endometriosis
• heavy menstrual flow
• severe cramps
• pain during sexual intercourse  

Fascia surrounds and wraps around organs and can give rise to symptoms in the visceral organs. An abdominal scar can build up visceral adhesions, which can affect the sympathetic nervous system, with varied symptoms such as vertebral stiffness of the spine, headache and optical symptoms due to the innervation of the vagus nerve.

The scar resulting from a Cesarean section builds up myofascial tension around the abdomen and pelvis. Limited mobility of the pelvis will result in dysfunctions of the respiratory diaphragm, the thoracic outlet, the mouth floor, and the reciprocal tensional membrane.

Therefore, a scar can cause a visceral problem and can change structure and posture. It is suggested that a Caesarean scar may lead to lower abdominal pain and pelvic pain, and has potential links to infertility, endometriosis, heavy menstrual flow, severe cramps, and pain during sexual intercourse.  

From lower back pain to pelvic discomfort, learn how scars, such as (C-section scars) disrupt health and how to resolve it effectively.

Join us  and gain the confidence to address one of the most overlooked contributors to chronic pain and dysfunction.

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