A group of international experts convened in Washington, D.C., in September 2024 for the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Surgical Adhesions Improvement Project Summit to explore the challenges of ...

Up to 90% of abdominal surgeries result in adhesions — abnormal scarring that ties together organs and tissues. A gel developed at Stanford Medicine prevented adhesions in mice and pigs.

However, in the process of performing the laminectomy, some patients lay down excess scar tissue, which webs down the nerve root it is intending to decompress, and subsequently creates it’s own ...

This remarkable procedure allows us to detect and treat areas of “scar tissue” or adhesions in muscles, tendons and ligaments that can reduce our range of motion and cause pain. In the healing process ...

Surgical adhesions, internal scar tissue bands, pose significant challenges post-surgery, leading to complications like bowel obstructions and chronic pain, affecting over 90% of open abdominal ...