This remarkable procedure allows us to detect and treat areas of “scar tissue” or adhesions in muscles, tendons and ligaments that can reduce our range of motion and cause pain. In the healing process ...

Infections, surgery, injuries, or inflammation of the tissue can cause a scar to develop at any location in the body. 1 In severe cases, hypertrophic scarring and keloids can occur after an injury ...

To repair the injury, the body replaces the damaged ... to see details of the scarring inside the hearts of zebrafish and mouse models of cardiac injury. Scar tissue is comprised of collagen ...

Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare, life-threatening illness caused by bacteria that aggressively attack the soft tissue of the ...

Whether it’s from acne, surgery or another wound-inducing experience, skin scarring is almost as inevitable as it is permanent. For most scars that create textural changes to your skin ...

This device can be turned upward so that the ends reside inside of the nostrils ... The hardware is then pushed out of the body laterally. New scar tissue is formed as this process progresses.

This scar tissue, called fibrotic encapsulation, is the body's attempt to protect itself from foreign objects, but it often leads to implant failure by blocking the device's function. By studying ...