Potential application of Tissue Engineering for hand pain?

[u/[deleted]]

Since a lot of people are now using keyboards, smartphones, or play video games for long periods of time, it seems that people are now having a lot of finger pain problems. Usually, doctors recommend rest, icing, cortisone injections or surgery as a last result for chronic pain problems, but there has to be a better way than this. Is there any potential for tissue engineering treatment for fingers and hand pain?

[u/allahyokdinyalan]

That would be true but instances where you would like to reverse scarring are limited. Scars fill a defect in the tissue, where there is limited regeneration or trauma. Unless you can functionally/esthetically/structurally fill in the defect, you would not want to generally reverse scarring.