Multiple scars is more commonly known as MS and it is an inflammatory disease of the fatty substance known as myelin, which acts as a protective sheath around nerve endings in the spinal cord, brain and at the rear of the eyes. When inflammation occurs, damage is done to the myelin and this is known as demyelination; this in turn causes scars to appear in that area.

As with any scar tissue, it is generally thicker and not as receptive to stimuli, hence signals cannot pass across the nerve as effectively as they once used to. MS refers to a multiple sites of damage or multiple scars, in fact sclerosis actually means scar. In MS a new attack may appear in the same area as before, or it may move onto a new area and create a new set of scars.

The most common form of multiple scars is relapsing …