How Body Heals Sports Injury Sprain, Strain or Tear

From the moment of a sprain, strain or tear sports injury your body immediately sends its damage repair chemical team to the site. This team commences your injury healing process.

The initial chemical team is located in on site cells, which trigger a process called inflammation. Blood vessels surrounding the injury site open up for a blood flow increase. This widens the doors for the necessary incoming nutrients army.

Within a matter of hours, white blood cells (leukocytes) arrive via the bloodstream to begin their process of tearing down and removing damaged tissue. This allows for other cells to start their specialized job of developing scar tissue.

The amount of scarring depends on the nature of the injury as evidenced by the amount of swelling, inflammation, or bleeding at the injury location. Amazingly, over the course of the next few weeks, your sprain, strain or tear will regain a great deal of strength. All the while scar tissue continues to form.

Figure about a month post sprain, strain or tear for your injury protective scar tissue start to shrink, bringing damaged, torn, or separated tissues back together.

Precautions should be taken, because some of those “pesky” sports injuries may take a couple months or more before healing is complete. Re-injury of sprains, strains or tears are the result of previously injured area feeling good, yet not quite back to 100%.

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