Why Reducing Scar Tissue
is Important

"I try to avoid stress - it makes me feel like I'm
rubber-stamping all my organs "Urgent." ~Berri Clove

I wrote this page about reducing scar tissue to help you further understand how it can release pain and the role inflammation plays in injuries.

When you get injured, the injury site will swell up and become hot and sometimes red. This is the process of inflammation. Inflammation occurs to protect the injury site from further injury and invaders.

For example, let's imagine that you are driving on the highway and suddenly you are in an accident. Cars around you stop and the paramedics and police arrive and they block the area from anyone not authorized from entering and exiting the area. There will be an investigation and so forth.

This is a metaphor to what happens to your body during inflammation. Your body protects the area, kill off invaders and then begins to try to repair the area.

However, in the car accident example the police can not block off the area forever, It eventually has to open it up to other cars again. In your body, inflammation will continue to persist but what it does instead is repair any deteriorated muscle fiber cells by replacing them with fat and scar tissue, which is hard and painless. This process is called fibrosis.

How scar tissue causes pain

When scar tissue is created it contracts. This is why sometimes you see the skin "pucker" when you get a cut. An injury, such as a tear in the muscle fiber, will form scar tissue to replace the damage tissue. That scar tissue will contract and form a "knot" in the muscle. This "knot" can cause pain by compressing nerves. The nerves respond by exciting pain receptors. This "knot" can also compress arteries, veins, and lymph channels.

When the knot compresses things around it, blood circulation is very limited. Waste products can not leave the muscle cells fast enough nor can the blood bring in enough nutrients and vitamins. The muscle slowly wastes away. Eventually the muscle withers away to the point that nothing is left but fat and scar tissue. This is dangerous.

This is why reducing scar tissue is so important!

Scar tissue is not the same as the original muscle fiber. Scar tissue is:

• Less elastic
• Less resilient
• Less pliable
• Less resistant to stress
• More sensitive to pain
• Has poorer circulation

Reducing Scar Tissue with Massage

Are you worried about how your scar tissue will heal? Are you wondering if you can recover fast enough to return to your daily activities? Then you need to read this article about healing scar tissue and what actions you need to take to recover quickly from your injuries.

Massage is not the only way to break up scar tissue. Read this article to learn more.

Bursitis and Tendonitis

A common form of inflammation that bothers over millions of Americans a year is bursitis. Bursitis is an inflammation of a bursa. A bursa is a small filled sac with fluid that is located between tendons and bones in various places of the body. Scar tissue forming in the joints can lead to limited joint movement.

Another common form of inflammation that occurs is called tendonitis. Tendonitis can sometimes be confused with bursitis because they normally occur near each other. Tendonitis is inflammation of the tendon usually caused by a sprain. A tendon connects muscle to bone. Scar tissue forming in the tendon restricts movement of the muscle and can cause pain and limited range of motion.

Reducing scar tissue in joints and tendons can free up the area and help increase your range of motion.

Reducing Scar Tissue: Natural Remedies

What can you do to reduce scar tissue or even prevent it from causing pain? There are natural vitamins and foods that you can eat that can prevent or reduces inflammation. You can check my page on natural inflammation relief here.

Sometimes cortisone is used by your doctor to try to quickly reduce the inflammation.

It is natural for scar tissue to form to repair cuts and wounds in or on the body. It is when scar tissue contracts and puts stress on the surrounding tissue and nerves is when it becomes painful and dangerous to healing.

As discussed earlier when scar tissue contracts it can begin to restrict blood flow. Applying magnets to the area can help increase blood flow, which in turn allows nutrients and waste to flow more freely in and out of the muscle fibers.

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