[themaninthedark]

Maybe a dumb question but....

If scar tissue forms after an injury and blocks the area (on both sides of the nerve, I assume), like this ---x x--- . Could you then cut the scarred area away, creating "new" injury that this treatment could cure?

----x x----

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[gus_massa]

I remember reading a story many years ago a about a boy that got a nerve severed and later they opened the wound to remove the scar in the nerve and reconnect the nerve, so it regrows. The problem was that after cutting the scar, the nerve was shorter, so they have to take a shortcut in the elbow.

I can't find the story, but these links have info that is similar enough to be confident my memory is not too bad. http://www.rebeccaayers.co.nz/procedures-and-information/han... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_allograft

[themaninthedark]

Cool! I am glad that it might be possible and that this might even be able to help those who have old injuries then!

My wife has internal scarring and adhesion(filaments of scar tissues) from appendicitis. This causes complications and her intestines can get twisted instead of moving freely over each other like they normally would. I asked if the adhesion could be cut to allow free movement but unfortunately it's sort of like a hydra, you cut one and it will form more/new adhesions.