a lot of people are concerned with scars because of their appearance but what's
much more important is how scars can interfere with your health stay tuned
and I'll explain hey I'm Dr. Sten Ekberg with wellness for life and by
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to master true health most of us have scars and sometimes they can be annoying
we can be concerned with how they look especially if they're in a prominent
location but very few people know how they can affect health how they can
interfere with healing and the effects can be anywhere from negligible to
absolutely devastating in our office we check for scars one of the first things
that we do and if we find them we show people how they can treat the scars and
in a lot of cases that can be the key factor to allow the body to proceed to
healing but first of all what is the scar scar is the product of repair the
body has had an injury and it tries to repair it but the result looks different
it feels different and it has different signal properties and that's what we're
concerned with so when you grew the body the first time then everything was
moving you had tension you had fluid motion and all the fibers aligned in an
orderly fashion when you have a cut and the body repairs of the scar then the
fiber orientation is much more random and that's why the tissue looks
different but again it's signals differently and that's why we're
concerned there's two things that scars do the first is it interferes with
regulation what is regulation everything in your body from blood pressure to
hormone levels to digestion to posture to muscle tone to thoughts to attitudes
to focus everything in your body is the result of brain turning things on and
off so the brain receives somewhere in the
order of a billion bits of information every second and every one of those bits
is responded to the brain responds by turning something on or turning
something off the sum total of all that turning on and off is called regulation
the better it works the healthier you are the more of it that gets a little
out of balance the more problems we start having so regulation is huge and
scars can interfere with regulation the second thing is scars actually caused
stress and why is that well have you ever noticed if you remember how you are
sort of just sitting around not thinking much and all of a sudden somebody
touched you maybe just a hair and you jumped and your pupils dilated your hair
stood on end your heart raced you got the shivers that was an a stress
response also called a startle response and that's part of the fight flight
reaction that's there to save your life well the reason your skin is so
sensitive and those hairs are so sensitive is that's your first line of
defense in order for your body to survive you have to be ultra sensitive
in the skin and anything in the skin that's touched has the ability to
trigger that fight flight response so a scar that can interfere with that signal
can also create a fight flight response even if you don't get the startle effect
that you notice even a little bit matters because it ramps up that fight
flight or that sympathetic response just a little bit and over time that can be
significant one of the oldest healing arts in the world is acupuncture it's
been around for thousands and thousands of years so they must be doing something
right and I'm not claiming to be an expert on acupuncture but I do know a
few things and that is that acupuncture is based on a Meridian system
marillion is a channel of information there's something that they refer to as
chi or energy that flows in these channels and these channels run in the
skin so if there's a scar that intercepts one of these channels one of
these meridians then that information is going to come up to the scar and it's
going to either stop or get randomly scattered and dispersed and why can that
be devastating well think about in acupuncture they put a needle someplace
in an acupuncture point maybe in the head or in the hand and somehow that
needle effects the liver or the kidneys well that's because there is some flow
of information between that point and the organ that they're trying to
influence so in other words putting a needle somewhere changes the way the
body processes information and that's part of this overall regulation so again
if a scar interferes with that now regulation is not working as smoothly
and as fine-tuned as it's supposed to as the body and nature intended one of the
most common things that we see in the office is women who have anxiety and
depression after childbirth everyone's heard of postpartum depression and we
find that there is a scar involved not the sole cause necessarily but there is
a scar involved in most of those cases if you notice on this close-up of the
Meridian systems how many of these meridians run in the midline and if you
think about how many women deliver with a c-section today I don't know the exact
number but it's somewhere around 50% I believe and if you imagine how many of
these meridians that could be intercepted by a c-section scars
anywhere from five to seven meridians and the midline meridians have a
this influence on the nervous system here's a list of some of the most common
scars that we run into of course surgeries being the most devastating
because they are large and deep and c-section is one of the most profound of
those but any cut that whether you had stitches or not that healed with a mark
is usually an active scar meaning it interferes with something another
interesting one is the belly button that's the first score that we get and
there is an e remarkable number of people who actually test as having a
belly button as an active scar meaning it interferes in some way then there's
all sorts of piercings and tattoos and and pulled teeth all of these can create
interference of course people are concerned with the appearance and that
is another aspect of it so people wonder will they go away and I don't know that
they will completely and totally disappear even though that has been
known to happen they will typically reduce in appearance a lot of times 50%
or more they get thinner and more faint but again we want to keep in mind that
the key is to reduce the interference with a signal did the detrimental effect
that they can have on your health so if scars are so devastating why doesn't
everyone notice these effects was for the same reason that not everyone gets a
cold or the flu every time it comes around the body have different amounts
of resources some people have a lot of resources a lot of vitality a lot of
energy strong immune systems strong brains to compensate and adapt and
overcome so someone who has a lot of reserve capacity will probably never
notice a scar even though it stresses them a little bit that little stress is
no big deal because they can adapt someone else who has a much lesser
reserve it doesn't take a whole lot to set off that whole process before we
wrap up and talk about what to do let's also mention what not
to do a lot of people go to the drugstore and they buy the medical
appointments the antibiotics the cortisone creams the antibiotic creams
and that's really not a good idea if you have a severe local infection that's
where those creams might come in handy but these things are antibiotics they
interfere antibiotic means against life it's going to kill something and on your
skin you have a bacterial flora that flora goes from the outside of your skin
all the way inside into your gut where 85% of your immune system lives and part
of your immune system and your health lives on your skin as well so you want
to cooperate with that biological culture that you have you don't want to
interfere with it so stay away from those creams unless you have something
of a more urgent medical nature the treatment of scars is really pretty
simple and the things that reduce their appearance is the same thing that will
improve the signal properties so you can't really go wrong there here is a
list of some of the things that we use in our office we have found them to be
very effective they're good quality these are typically only sold by
professionals but if you look around in your community then most chiropractors
will have a lot of these brands you can call us if you'd like more information
about it you can also go online and look there are lots of videos about essential
oils and and this oil and that oil and they typically work really really well
so that's not the key thing for most people another thing you can add is cold
laser and cold laser works great oils work great and the combination works
even better and there's a combination of the the rubbing which activates
receptors and the light and the nutrients in the oil so all put together
then the combination works really well so let me show you how easy it can be to
do one of the applications I'm gonna show you the
little pearl of standard process wheat germ oil and you take a push pin or a
safety pin you just poke it into the side and you make a hole and then you
get a drop out you put it on the skin and just rub it in so you don't need a
whole lot of oil you want to use it kind of like a lotion to where you can rub it
into the skin and it doesn't get all greasy with a lot of residue so then you
can add some laser to it and that's about it
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