I don't think so. There are scars on my hips but they shrink from 9" to 4.5" and they are white so you don't notice them. On my cervical (neck) front you can't see the scar at all! On the back, there was a super huge surgery and the spine sits very deep. So I go for Myofascial release therapy and it's softened over time. (it's still pretty new at a year and a half. On my lumbar spine there is NO scar tissue from the 2 or 3 incisions and there never has been. Just the incision line. After several years, "scars" go away. If scar tissue forms, there is stuff that can be done about it. You could never know I had spine surgery if you look at me from the front! I put on vitamin E and I think C for a bit and stayed out of the sun until they healed. I have nerve issues but they come from impinged nerve roots in my spinal canal - not from any scars I have sustained.