
Healing after mastectomy or chest surgery involves more than physical recovery—it requires care that feels safe, respectful, and attuned to the whole person.
This specialized service is designed to support your body’s healing process while honoring your lived experience.
Each session is guided by where your body is in its recovery, using techniques appropriate to your stage of healing. Gentle, trauma-informed therapeutic touch helps reduce discomfort, support tissue repair, and encourage healthy circulation—without overwhelming sensitive or healing areas.
Care is always approached with dignity and non-judgment. Many people experience complex feelings about their bodies after surgery, including disconnection or uncertainty.
Sessions are paced slowly and intentionally, creating space for reconnection and ease, while allowing your body to lead the process.
This work blends skilled manual therapy with an understanding of how tissues heal and how the nervous system responds to stress and change.
You are supported as a whole person—not just a surgical site—and treated as an active participant in your healing.
Sessions are collaborative, respectful, and designed to integrate seamlessly into your broader healthcare plan, supporting your recovery between medical visits and as your body continues to change.
Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator
Care for abdominally based breast reconstruction, supporting scar mobility, trunk comfort, swelling reduction, and the layered healing needed through both chest and donor-site recovery
Transverse Rectus Abdominus Muscle Flat
Treatment designed to support recovery after TRAM flap reconstruction, helping ease abdominal tightness, improve mobility, reduce fluid congestion, and address scar-related restriction the chest and core.
Latissmus Doris Myocutaneous Flap
Focused care for latissimus flap recovery, addressing pulling, shoulder and rib restriction, post-surgical swelling, and scar tension that can affect upper body comfort and movement.
Gluteal and Thigh Flap
Supportive treatment for gluteal- and thigh-based flap reconstruction, helping reduce swelling, improve tissue mobility, soften scar-related restriction, and restore greater ease through movement and recovery.
Gentle, post-surgical care to address tenderness, swelling, scar tightness, and protective tension patterns after lumpectomy, helping the body regain comfort and mobility as healing progresses.
Supportive care during expander reconstruction to help manage tightness, pressure, swelling, sensitivity, and restriction as the tissues adapt and change over time.
Post-Op Recovery Lymphatic Drainage at Evolve Massage & Bodyworks is a soft, targeted technique designed to support your body’s natural healing rhythms after surgery.
Using light, rhythmic manual movements, we encourage fluid flow, reduce inflammation, and help minimize the development of post-surgical fibrosis—all while protecting sensitive tissues.
Our therapists are trained to work with you both before and after your procedure. Pre-surgical care helps prepare and soften tissue, while post-surgical sessions focus on reducing swelling, easing discomfort, and supporting healthy mobility as you heal.
Treatment is safe even when surgical drains are still in place, and each session is adapted to your exact stage of recovery.

Evolve Massage and Bodyworks
1807 Hicks Road, Unit C, Rolling Meadows, IL, USA