[libribook.com] Traumatic Scar Tissue Management 1st Edition

release inflammatory substances that can chemically irritate neural elements.
This suggests that a nerve does not have to be entrapped in scar tissue, it can also
be impacted by scarring in neighboring tissue.
Pressure and compression constitute the most common forms of nerve injury as
complete severance is rare. While nerve injury grading classification systems,
such as Seddon (1943) and Sunderland (1952), describe the severity of neural
injury (neuropraxia, axonotmesis, neurotmesis) and consider negative
symptomology (e.g. numbness and weakness), they do not include
considerations for positive symptomology like neuropathic pain.