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Old 09-21-2013, 03:19 PM
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Adhesions are a fibrous scar tissue. Cheloids are similar and are found on the skin around scars in some people and not others.
I know when I had some minor surgery at a podiatrist's office in July, one of the questions on the history sheet was do you make cheloids commonly with scars.

There are some posts on the Thoracic Outlet forum discussing using pentoxfylline (a drug) to reduce adhesions after TOS surgery.
You can search this drug name there and see the other links.
This is the TOS forum:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum24.html

example:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7633193

This one suggests arginine (an amino acid) to help as well.
http://www.researchgate.net/publicat...sion_formation

I wouldn't expect doctors to know this however. And I doubt diet can help.
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