In scar tissue, collagen proteins grow in a single direction rather than in a multidirectional pattern, as they do in healthy skin.
Scar tissue may also form inside the body. For example, a person may develop scar tissue internally after undergoing knee replacement surgery. Scar tissue may cause pain in several ways. Sometimes, the pain is due to skin tightness, which may make it more difficult to move freely.
In other cases, scar tissue pain occurs due to nerve damage resulting from the original injury. If the wound was deep and affected nerves or tendons, a person might have long-term symptoms, such as pain or numbness, in the affected area. Some people experience scar tissue pain as a result of fibrosis , which occurs when the body grows an excessive amount of scar tissue. Fibrosis causes adhesions that may lead to ongoing pain, inflammation, and loss of function of the tissue or joint.
Fibroblasts, which are cells that form during scar tissue growth, are responsible for fibrosis. If the fibroblasts do not clear over time, they cause prolonged inflammation. Other symptoms associated with scar tissue include itching, swelling, and tenderness or sensitivity. When a person first sustains an injury, they usually experience pain due to inflammation and damage to the skin.
However, this typically improves over time. The leg regained its strength and the incisions healed, but tiny scars remained. I chose my scars. I chose to go under and let doctors cut through layers of skin, knowing I would wake up with marks. In high school, they said I could give up my sport and avoid surgery. I could quit volleyball and learn to live with a shoulder that sometimes was half-in-half-out. I asked them to operate.
Later, after recovering from shoulder surgery and playing three years of college volleyball, my hip imploded. In the cold, sterile room after the MRI, the doctors told me I could leave my hip the way it was, bone chip floating in it, ripped cartilage and labrum and all. The doctors told me I could keep going, but that over time the hip might wear down. My home was in the gym, with my teammates. So when they told me they could operate again, that they could fix the joint, I said yes.
It must be, because it contains everything we are. If you were to peel your skin off, lay it down, and smooth out the wrinkles, it would stretch to about twenty square feet. Three layers make up our protective covering: the epidermis, or the outside shell that keeps water out and nutrients in; the dermis, where hair follicles, sweat glands, and connective tissue coexist; and the hypodermis, where more thick tissue and durable fat lie hidden beneath the surface.
To make a scar, the dermis needs to be damaged. The damage must go deep enough to draw blood and interrupt the body. In some cases, an overactive immune system can damage the plexus. Brachial plexus injuries cut off all or part of the communication between the spinal cord and the arm, wrist, and hand. This may mean that you can't move or feel parts of your arm or hand. Often, brachial plexus injuries cause pain or a total loss of feeling in the area. The severity of a brachial plexus injury varies.
In some people, function and feeling returns to normal. Others may have lifelong disability because they can't use or feel a part of the arm. Brachial plexus injuries are categorized by how badly the nerves are damaged:.
Brachial plexus birth injury is when the brachial plexus gets stretched during childbirth. It is called Erb palsy or Klumpke palsy, depending on which part of the plexus is injured. Erb palsy affects between 1 and 2 babies in every 1, births. The most common cause of this injury is when the neck is tilted while pulling traction happens on the other side of the neck.
But the causes of injury are varied, including motor vehicle accidents, falls, gunshot wounds, athletic injuries especially contact sports , and childbirth. During childbirth, large babies may be at an increased risk for brachial plexus injuries. At some point in time, however, the Lord may prompt a victim to recognize a degree of responsibility for abuse.
Your priesthood leader will help assess your responsibility so that, if needed, it can be addressed. Otherwise the seeds of guilt will remain and sprout into bitter fruit. Yet no matter what degree of responsibility, from absolutely none to increasing consent, the healing power of the atonement of Jesus Christ can provide a complete cure.
Forgiveness can be obtained for all involved in abuse. See A of F Then comes a restoration of self-respect, self-worth, and a renewal of life. As a victim, do not waste effort in revenge or retribution against your aggressor. Focus on your responsibility to do what is in your power to correct.
Leave the handling of the offender to civil and Church authorities. Whatever they do, eventually the guilty will face the Perfect Judge. Ultimately the unrepentant abuser will be punished by a just God. The purveyors of filth and harmful substances who knowingly incite others to acts of violence and depravation and those who promote a climate of permissiveness and corruption will be sentenced.
Predators who victimize the innocent and justify their own corrupted life by enticing others to adopt their depraved ways will be held accountable. Of such the Master warned:.
Understand that healing can take considerable time. Recovery generally comes in steps. It is accelerated when gratitude is expressed to the Lord for every degree of improvement noted. He does not always understand the importance of the treatment prescribed, but his obedience speeds recovery.
So it is with you struggling to heal the scars of abuse. Forgiveness, for example, can be hard to understand, even more difficult to give. Begin by withholding judgment. The way to repentance must be kept open for them. Leave the handling of aggressors to others. As you experience an easing of your own pain, full forgiveness will come more easily. You cannot erase what has been done, but you can forgive. Forgiveness heals terrible, tragic wounds, for it allows the love of God to purge your heart and mind of the poison of hate.
It cleanses your consciousness of the desire for revenge. It makes place for the purifying, healing, restoring love of the Lord.
Bitterness and hatred are harmful. They produce much that is destructive. They postpone the relief and healing you yearn for. Through rationalization and self-pity, they can transform a victim into an abuser. Let God be the judge—you cannot do it as well as he can. To be counseled to just forget abuse is not helpful.
You need to understand the principles which will bring healing. I repeat, most often that comes through an understanding priesthood leader who has inspiration and the power of the priesthood to bless you.
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