The research showed that changing the force and number of times the device was compelled to move or change shape allowed the device to release more drug, helping to bypass scar tissue build-up.

By breaking up scar tissue, muscles and joints can glide and move freely again without pain and stiffness. Active release technique vs. similar treatments.

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When the body’s immune system prompts the development of scar tissue around implanted devices, they don’t work as effectively as they should, putting patients at risk. To overcome this problem, ...

Explained another way, a heart attack can cause scar tissue build up—myocardial fibrosis—but the fibrotic region lacks the contractile activity of healthy heart tissue.

Preventing scar tissue build-up. In her most recent research, which was a collaboration between University of Galway and MIT and was published in Nature Communications, ...

Working through scar tissue. A polymer—any polymer—is built around a chemical “backbone” with a series of branching side chains building out the rest of the material’s structure. To make polymers that ...