02/11/2026
Scars are more than just marks on the skin.
A scar is a sign of trauma. Surgery, injury, accidents. And for a lot of people, that trauma doesn’t fully resolve just because the skin healed.
Scars can interfere with the nervous system and the musculoskeletal system. When they’re stretched, pressed on, or even lightly stimulated, they can create pain or dysfunction far away from where the scar actually is.
Here’s an easy way to think about it.
A healthy scar is like an extinct volcano. It’s there, but it’s quiet.
An active scar is like a volcano that’s still simmering beneath the surface.
Signs a scar may still be active:
• You avoid touching it
• You don’t like anyone else touching it
• It feels strange, sensitive, numb, or “not right”
• It triggers pain, tightness, or symptoms somewhere else in your body
Those reactions are not random. They’re signals.
There’s a growing body of research and clinical evidence showing that unresolved scars can play a major role in chronic pain and dysfunction. In some post surgical cases that failed to improve with traditional care, treating the scar itself was the missing piece that allowed patients to finally resolve.
This work has been discussed extensively by clinicians like Dr. Karel Lewit MD, and others who focus on the neurological impact of scar tissue.
The good news is scars don’t have to stay active forever. With the right therapies, they can be calmed, integrated, and essentially made dormant so they stop interfering with the rest of the body.
If you’ve had surgery, an injury, or a scar that just feels off and you’ve never had it evaluated, this might be the piece you’ve been missing.
Your body remembers more than you think. Sometimes it just needs the right signal to let go.
