289 233 3667Soft Tissue Injury Con’
Today we will talk about the Severity of Tissue Injury!
To properly treat the tissue after the injury first we need to understand the severity of the damage.
Grade 1-
- Mild pain at time of the injury or within 24 hours.
- Mild swelling, local tenderness, and pain when the tissue is stressed.
Grade 2-
- Moderate pain that requires stopping the activity (possible able to resume after some interruption with lower grade injury).
- Stress and palpation of the tissue greatly increase the pain.
- When injury occurs to a ligament, some of the fibres are torn which will result in increased joint mobility.
Grade 3-
- Near-complete or complete tear or avulsion of the tissue (tendon/ligament) with severe pain.
- Stress to the tissue is usually painless.
- Palpation may reveal the defect.
- Torn ligament results in instability of the joint.
Follow us in our next blog at our Massage Therapy Clinic in Oakville; we will discuss the difference between the Sprain and Strain type injury.