When small scars result from nature healing the nicks and scrapes of our skin, we rarely complain about the resulting scar tissue. Adhesions are essentially scar formations within the abdomen and are nature's way of controlling infections, foreign bodies or intestinal injuries.
Adhesions develop following any operation in the abdomen.
Surgeries, such as those on the appendix, stomach, intestine or uterus, will produce adhesions as the body heals inside. Surgeons try to be very gentle with the inside organs as well as washing the blood, bile and other materials from the cavity, yet adhesions still form. Other than surgery there are assorted causes of adhesion formation. Some adhesions, such as those formed by perforated ulcers, appendicitis and infections in women's fallopian tubes, can be reduced through early recognition and treatment. Abdominal adhesions are like banjo strings stretching between the intestines or from the front of the abdomen to the back.