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Scar Tissue

With sprains and strains, there is frequently tearing and stretching of the involved soft tissues, as well as damage produced from local micro-hemorrhage and inflammation. This reaction is the usual bodily response to such trauma in inflammation and its inevitable result is commonly known as "scar tissue".

Scar tissue forms not only on the skin, but on all internal lesions as well, such as muscle tears, sprains, strains or where internal surgery has been performed. As damaged tissues heal, local areas of inflammation remain chronic sources of irritation because the body repairs a wound, ulcer, or other lesion by increasing its production of the tough, fibrous protein collagen at the site of the damage. The collagen helps form new connective tissue, which covers the area of the lesion.

Scar tissue, due to its rigid or fibrotic state, remains a constant source of irritation. Because of this rigidity, the affected tissues are prone to loss of motion due to inherent weakening and contraction of the involved fibers from the scar formation.

Many of the factors that are associated with normal activities of daily living can further aggravate the signs and symptoms presented and may create functional limitations in and of themselves.