now we're going to talk about the
timeline of soft tissue healing next
why healing takes time and what to
expect after an injury
now one of the important things to
understand when you're undergoing
chiropractic care is that
we're probably working on some sort of
soft tissue injury
or maybe some sort of soft tissue
dysfunction
and you know soft tissue dysfunction is
something that can be cleared up with
the course of chiropractic care
including exercises
to influence
the contractile elements
in the soft tissue called the muscle as
well as parts of the soft tissue that
pull on each other
called the ligaments or tendons
so if we can influence the soft tissue
and improve upon it
that can help to clear up a lot of
ongoing tissues in your body
tissues that cause pain create
discomfort even cause some you know
muscle weakness if you're trying to work
out
so we need to know
how soft tissue healing occurs
and how long it can take it's important
to know because it might take longer
than you realize
so what's a soft tissue injury what is
soft tissue
soft tissue includes muscles ligaments
tendons
intervertebral disc which is a type of
ligament
nerve tissue is a soft tissue you have
nerves that go
all throughout your body and
they
innervate the muscles
and
bring information from the skin
that can get injured in a soft tissue
injury
fat is soft tissue of course
there's uh parts between muscles and
between bones called the loose areolar
connective tissue
that can get injured that can become
bruised that could even cause uh
adhesions within that kind of tissue
um
i didn't put fascia that's a kind of
tendon or ligament
that can be injured
lymph nodes lymph is the
the vessels that bring swelling away
from parts of your body
deliver that fluid back to your heart
to be disposed of lymph nodes are also
like uh
you know their
immune system organs that collect
junk you know
they collect they collect the injured
cells dead cells stuff like that
but that can be they can be injured in a
soft tissue injury a big soft tissue
injury can cause swelling in your ankles
if you injure your leg because the lymph
nodes become
become blocked off by scar tissue
blood vessels are soft tissue
synovial tissue is the
the parts
in the joi in your joints that create
synovial fluid
and that could become injured in a
tissue so soft tissue injury is
basically everything
but the bone
