Baylor Medicine offers the Graston Technique® for injury treatment and rehabilitation. This remarkable procedure allows us to detect and treat areas of “scar tissue” or adhesions in muscles, tendons ...

Neutrophils begin to migrate to the area and arrive as early as 1–2 h after injury.5 Macrophages follow the neutrophils and have many roles, but do not appear to have a role in secondary muscle injury ...

T endons are the small but tough linkers between bones and muscle. When they are injured, repairing a tendon is no small task ...

A grade 3 injury requires surgery to reattach your torn muscle. Having surgery sooner rather than later is recommended to reduce the risk of scar tissue forming at or near the site of the tear.

This article explains how tight neck, shoulder and upper back muscles cause tension headaches ... And when they do, microscopic scar tissue is left behind. These scar tissue fibers effectively ...

And, in attempts to offset the dysfunction, scar tissue can add to the dysfunction. When compensation happens the injury site may be compromised with immobility. The body will call on and incorporate ...

We evaluated each calf muscle tear with MRI for the particular muscle injured, location of injury within the muscle and integrity of the connective tissue structure at the interface. The muscle tears ...

Whether it’s caused by acne, surgery or another wound-inducing experience, skin scarring is almost as inevitable as it is permanent. If your scars create textural changes to your skin, it is ...