The final step in secondary intention healing is contracture of the wound. Myofibroblasts and fibroblasts lead to contracture of the wound bed and create a scar. Scars matures over the course of the year following the injury. During that time, the scar is friable often injured by shear and pressure. While these patients have a closed wound, the wound is not healed and neither is the patient.
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