Tissue Repair Flashcards
Mechanisms and characteristics of MSK trauma:
- mechanical forces
- tissue susceptibility to trauma
Mechanical forces:
- tissues can resist a particular load
- forces acting on the body
Tissue susceptibility to trauma:
- viscoelastic properties
- deformation = yield point
- mechanical failure
Stress-strain curve:
- y axis = stress or load/unit area
- x axis = strain or deformation/original length
- zone 1 = elastic properties
- zone 2 = plastic changes
- point 1 = yield point
- end point = tissue failure (injury)
Macrotraumatic injuries:
- acute MOI: able to articulate how injured and why
- known DOI: onset short period of time
- S&S: may produce levels of immediate pain and functional disability
Examples of macrotraumatic injuries:
- fractures
- dislocations
- contusion
- sprains
- strains
Microtraumatic injuries:
- chronic MOI: may not be able to articulate how or why injured
- insidious DOI: onset long period of time from repetitive overload, incorrect mechanics, previous injury
- S&S: may be painful but typically able to function
Examples of microtraumatic injuries:
- tendinitis
- tenosynovitis
- bursitis
Secondary systemic complications:
- the response to the primary injury
- inflammatory response to focal area occurs over time (seconds or minutes to hours or days)
- secondary tissue response
Secondary injury: inflammatory response to focal area includes:
- cellular injury mechanism results in edema (swelling), hemorrhage (bruising, redness, warmth)
- impaired metabolism to tissues leads to ischemia (inadequate blood supply to healthy tissues). Results in hypoxic response to surrounding tissues
- creates oxidative stress (toxic tissue) leads to cell death
Secondary tissue response:
- further tissue trauma
- possibly infection
Secondary tissue response may result in:
- muscular spasm
- extremity guarding
- more swelling
- more bruising
Plan for rehabilitation programming must be built upon the framework for ____ ____.
tissue repair
Tissue repair:
restoration of tissue and of function after an injury
2 processes of tissue repair:
- regeneration
- replacement
Regeneration (tissue repair):
healing in which new growth completely restores portions of damaged tissue to their normal state
Replacement (tissue repair):
healing in which severely damaged or non-regenerable tissues are repaired by scarring
Phases of tissue repair are ______ phases.
non-definitive
Types of responses in each phase:
- vascular
- cellular
- chemical
- clinical
Phases of tissue response to injury:
- inflammatory response phase
- fibroblastic repair phase
- maturation-remodeling phase
Clinical responses to tissue injury:
- altered cellular metabolism and chemical mediators
- macroscopic characteristics of an inflammatory response
Macroscopic characteristics of an inflammatory response includes:
- swelling
- heat
- altered function
- redness
- pain: tenderness, point tenderness
Plan for clinical responses to tissue injury:
initial management and treatment response is critical in the repair and healing process
Acute inflammation:
- short onset and duration (weeks)
- begins immediately following damage to tissue (MOI)
- change in hemodynamics (blood system), production of exudate (swelling) and leukocytes (garbage collector)
Chronic inflammation:
- insidious onset, or has been long duration of time (chronic)
- occurs when the acute inflammation response fails as may be in a state of repeated damage to tissue (months to years)
- as not restored to a normal physiological state, there is a proliferation of extensive scar tissue
Proliferation of extensive scar tissue includes:
- chronic change in hemodynamics (injuring agents are not eliminated)
- repeated production of connective tissue and tissue degeneration, production and presence of garbage collectors including macrophages, lymphocytes (different chemical mediators)
Phase 1 inflammatory response:
- initial reaction to tissue damage (injury)
- occurring immediately (post injury) from time of injury (0 to 4-7 days)
- injury can be caused by trauma, chemical agents, thermal extremes, pathogenic organisms
External injury results in …
tissue death
Internal injury results in …
tissue (cellular) death
How does internal injury result in tissue (cellular) death?
- decreased oxygen to area increases cell death by secondary hypoxic injury
- phagocytosis (garbage collectors) will add to cell death due to excess digestive enzymes
In phase 1, goals of a plan may include:
- protect
- localize (secondary injury)
- decrease injurious agents
- prepare for healing and tissue repair
Management in phase 1:
- critical to limiting cell death
- Protect, Rest, Optimal loading, Ice, Compression, Elevation are critical to limiting cell death
- RICE –> PRICE –> POLICE
Vascular response:
- blood vessels vasoconstrict (serotonin)
- then blood vessels vasodilate (histamine, heparin)
- increase blood flow and permeability results in swelling
- controlled by chemical response, prepares the tissue for cellular response
Cellular response:
- mast cells are released in cell damage (heparin, histamine, serotonin)
- phagocytocis
- leukocytes (leukotaxin)
Phagocytocis:
damaged tissue encourages leukocytes to enter tissue and clear away all damage (phagocytic activity)
Leukocytes (leukotaxin):
allows for cell margination = increase cell permeability for WBC to flow thru cell walls forming exudate
Chemical mediators such as … are released to facilitate healing:
- histamine
- serotonin
- bradykinin
- heparin
- prostaglandins
Research in chemical response suggests that decrease mediators =
- decrease inflammation
- healing needs to progress through the healing process
Example of inflammatory response:
- injury to cell
- chemical mediators liberated (histamine, leukotrienes, cytokines)
- vascular reaction (vasoconstriction –> vasodilation –> exudate creates stasis)
- platelets and leukocytes adhere to vascular wall
- phagocytosis
- clot formation
Phase 2 =
fibroblastic repair phase
In phase 2, _____ and _____ activity occurs resulting in ____ ____ –> ______.
- proliferative
- regenerative
- scar formation
- fibroplasia
Phase 2 has 3 phases:
- resolution
- restoration
- regeneration
Phase 2 time frame:
- 48 hours to 6 weeks following DOI
- depends on many factors
Phase 2 time frame depends on:
- tissue damage (debris)
- type of tissue (revascularization)
- nutrition (vitamin C)
- health of client
- re-injury
What happens during phase 2?
- cleaning of fibrin clot and cellular debris (erythrocytes)
- restore tissue formation of a scar
- regenerates or replacement of tissue by same tissue (increase blood flow delivery (aerobic) for nutrient delivery as capillary buds develop)
Phase 2 does not progress until…
swelling (S&S) of acute inflammatory phase begin to subside