Do Silicone Strips Help?
Many of us have scars we wish were less prominent. Luckily clothes can often cover a scar but dressing to hide one’s scar isn’t practical or even desirable. With all the advances in treatment technology certainly, there should be some solid researched data on whether silicone strips make incisions heal better with less scaring. Searching the web for “silicone strips for scars” brings up a lot of “hits” of where to buy silicone strips but not much science as to how or whether they really help a scar’s appearance. I finally found a slide presentation of a study performed in 2003 by a doctoral physical therapy student Kathleen Mitchell at Shenandoah University with Chair/Professor Barbara H. Long at the Health & Exercise Department at Bridgewater College. Two worthwhile questions were posed. “Is there value in using silicone gel products with post surgical wounds to enhance scars pliability and visual appearance?” and “Is one product better than another?” Studies regarding the mechanism o
