Internal scar tissue

This text relates to internal scars and the way we can treat them, since they may cause a lot of pain and discomfort. Internal scars reflect the backfeed of our body when it is injured. The body tries to deal with this problem and this injured tissue is repaired. These scars form as an outcome of trauma or surgery and the most common area where the scar tissue can be found in the abdominal region.

There are some conditions that may cause the creation of internal scar tissues and they include heart attack, inflammatory diseases, and trauma. In a vast number of cases, scar tissues are repaired on their own, but in some cases, they are responsible for the formation of adhesions. That adhesion is settled between two things that were formerly connected.

About Adhesions

Scar tissue adhesions can sometimes be an obstacle to proper bowel movement, while sometimes they can be the ones to blame for the twisting of the reproductive organs. This adhesion can lead to very sharp pain and infertility.

Abdominal adhesions are bands of scar-like tissue that form inside your abdomen. The bands form between two or more organs or between organs and the abdominal wall. Normally, the surfaces of organs and your abdominal wall do not stick together when you move. However, abdominal adhesions may cause these surfaces to become adherent, or stick together.

Abdominal adhesions are common and often develop after abdominal surgery. In abdominal surgery, surgeons enter a patient’s abdomen through an incision, or cut. Abdominal surgery may be laparoscopic or open.
Abdominal adhesions develop in more than 9 out of every 10 people who have surgery that opens the abdomen. However, a majority of people with abdominal adhesions do not develop symptoms or complications. Abdominal adhesions are less common after laparoscopic surgery than after open surgery.
People who have had abdominal surgery are more likely to have abdominal adhesions. Among people who have had abdominal surgery, adhesions and related complications are more common in people who had emergency abdominal surgery, had pelvic surgery, or surgery that involved the lower digestive tract, including the colon and rectum.
Abdominal adhesions can cause intestinal obstruction and female infertility.
In many cases, abdominal adhesions do not cause symptoms. If they do cause symptoms, chronic abdominal pain is the most common symptom.
If abdominal adhesions cause symptoms or complications, doctors can release the adhesions with laparoscopic or open surgery. However, surgery to treat adhesions may cause new adhesions to form. If abdominal adhesions cause an intestinal obstruction, you will need treatment at a hospital right away. Doctors will examine you and may order tests to find out if you need emergency surgery. If you do, surgeons will release the adhesions, relieving the intestinal obstruction.

✓ Fact confirmed: Abdominal Adhesions National Institutes of Health; Last Reviewed June 2019

In these examples, you can conclude that adhesions sabotage internal organs from proper functioning and therefore cause trouble. The main symptom of adhesion presence is frequent pain.

Internal Scar Tissue Reduction

As we have written above, trauma or surgeries are some of the main causes of internal scar tissue formation. But, internal scar tissue and adhesions are more likely to appear due to inflammatory diseases. There are a number of ways in which you can treat and reduce scar tissue. Depending on the cause and the place, doctors can suggest steroid shots or surgery for internal scar tissue removal. In percentage, 60-90% of women who have had some gynecological surgery develop postoperative adhesions.

Some medications prescribed by doctors can be ineffective and rather expensive, so we will give you some non-surgical options that you can use for internal scar tissue reduction. Exercise can help a lot in the reduction of internal scar tissue. Physical therapy is another solution that you can try, but it is important to do it after consultation with your physician or physiotherapist.

You can also try lifestyle changes and Ayurvedic medicines. These medications are prescribed for heart disease and angina, but they also have a rejuvenating effect.

If these things don’t help, then the final resort is surgery. The post-operative recovery isn’t too long and in one week you can be back at work, doing the same things that you have done prior to the surgery.

Please, visit a doctor if you notice any of the symptoms so that you can treat them on time.