Back Lower (Lumbar) Scar Tissue Treatment

Scar tissue involving the spinal area is most common in the lumbar region and appears in two forms: epidural scar tissue and lumbar arachnoiditis. A scar is a natural part of the healing process.

Lumbar arachnoiditis is abnormal thickening of tissue that binds nerve roots together inside the dural sac. The clumping and distortion of groups of individual nerve roots can produce low back and leg pain that is mild to severe.

Where muscle fibers have been torn, scar tissue will be created to repair the fibers. Scar tissue is not identical to the tissue that it replaces and is usually of inferior functional quality.

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I joined the US Army early in 2007. By August, I left for basic training. While I was there, I fell off of an obstacle during a training exercise and landed on my back. Unluckily for me, there was a rock on the ground underneath the obstacle. After I fell, my sergeants told me that I would be fine without ....
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The exercise and therapy made the muscles swell and the pain worse.

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These treatments caused swelling and pain to go down temporarily but did not ultimately fix the problem..

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Therapy Ice
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Therapy Micro current
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Therapy Heat
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Exercise Walking
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Exercise
Exercise Exercise
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