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Started by HumanBIOS, August 10, 2014 · 6 Replies · 4,825 Views
Hi Forum
In the interview with Rob Woolf (episode 230) when coach talks about the healing dates and times, he mentions that muscle takes 90 days and connective tissue takes 210 days.
In episode 213, Coach mentions that connective tissue has a metabolic rate of 1/10th that of muscle tissue. So my question here is, If muscle tissue takes 90 days to regenerate, wouldn't connective tissue take 900 days to regenerate??
cheers?
From what I understand, the 90 and 210 days refers to adapting to a training stimulus (not injury).
The metabolic part refers to when injury happens, it takes 1/10th the time for connective tissue to repair itself because of its metabolic rate.
injury...
if light probably 6-7 months
if not light probably 1 - 1.5 year
if partial tear it does not heal
of course adapting to a stimuli it's one thing, heal from injury it's another.
Yer but circulation is circulation surely?? whether it's micro-trauma from exercise or full blown injury...the remodeling of that tissue should be the same shouldn't it?
If the blood and nutrient supply to connective tissue is 1/10th of muscle tissue....then it's 1/10th regardless of what the condition the tissue is in or how it's being used...!?!
the rate of heal depends on the condition of tendons and blood supply. correct progression and preparation could increase the specific capacity of a tendon to heal faster by increasing what i've cited above. For more specific information about that i've written a post that specify in depth what happens when microtrauma are progressively submitted to connective tissue with proper time of regeneration.
Ok cool, link to post??
Andrew,
Your logic is correct regarding tissue adaptation. However this is for intact tissue. However if a torn ligament, tendon, muscle, is small enough then scarring can occur to fill the tear. If the tear/damage is substantial then external intervention is required either via surgery, PRP, Stem cell, etc. For example, for a rotator cuff tear a surgeon would sew the tear together. Then the body will be able to create scar tissue to attach the torn segments and allow the body's healing process to do the rest. The rehab process takes into the account the process of tissue adaptation to get to full recovery. I know it has been some time since the last post but I hope this might be helpful.
JT