I have some painful adhesions due to a surgery that removed my spleen. Am I stuck with these or is yoga able to help break them up? Thank you for any assistance!
In my yoga therapy training instructors and Mayo clinic Breast cancer group believe that stretching does help with adhesions, thought it is painful for the first few month.
I think you should ask your doctor should you stretch the area first…if he says yes, then look for few private classes with yoga therapist .
Hope you feel better
Are you using the term “adhesion” as a synonym for “scar tissue”?
Then you ask “…is yoga able to help” and if you are meaning asana that is one answer. If you are meaning Yoga, that is a different answer.
What is most effective is the yoga which addresses the physical through posture and breath (control), nutrition through what to EAT and what to AVOID, and the meditation that uses light and color to purge and infuse in the multiple sheeths of human existence referred to as the five koshas.
Pragmatically, adhesion is best “broken up” with manual pressure 90? to the muscle fiber. In this post the question is complicated because you are dealing with the organic body (surrounding the spleen) so care must be used. The formation of scar tissue in the physical body is one of the pre-surgery considerations. It is one of the more challenging things to deal with (for a yoga teacher) post-op which is why we like to get out hands on you before 
Some mindful visceral massage by a well trained massage therapist may be helpful.
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I don’t have anything specific to say about yoga and adhesions but I had them and at a point the pain was so bad I went to the emergency room. The good news is that as bad as that was it was temporary and soon afterward the pain went away. I was doing yoga ; I can’t say it helped or hurt but the adhesions got better after getting worse and I haven’t felt them for years.