They are better than poor healing, but they are not better than our normal or natural tissue. Well, how do we avoid scars? You might ask. Should we avoid getting hurt, perhaps? The truth is, injury is unavoidable. Most injuries are not actual injuries, like twisting your ankle or being hurt playing sports. Most injuries are degeneration of our tissue or overuse. We daily create overuse or abnormal load to our tissue, tendons, ligaments, and joints. This overuse then causes a slow degeneration of the tissue that weakens it to a point of failure. Overuse is a chronic load and an inappropriate recovery time. Our body needs rest to allow the right time to recover, and we rarely provide that time. This leads to overload without the appropriate rest, which, in turn, leads to degeneration.

For most of us, we either cannot stop, or we don’t desire to stop the process of overload. Therefore, we have a high incidence of musculoskeletal injury. What are our options? Is it rest? Who has time to rest? If we don’t allow proper rest, we can injure and tear ligaments, tendons, muscles, joints and may need surgery to fix the damage, which forces rest and produces great scarring.