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DiscussionMyofascial Release Therapy (MFR) for treating compression and pain
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@varsha08 That was an older recommendation regarding MFR after having cancer. Your cancer specialist may allow it, and you may have scar tissue from treatment that could be helped, but your doctor needs to make the decision. Thanks for asking; it is a good question. I asked my PT who does MFR about it and she said that the doctors need to decide if it is right, but that some patients are doing this after cancer. The original thought was that if cancer cells were present in the area being stretched, it may liberate them in the body. However, for that to happen, it needs to be adjacent to blood or lymph system vessels.