hello,

I am a surgical assistant so medicine has been my life for 22 years. If you burn deep enough, you can cause contractures (shrinking of the underlying tissue) which can impair mobility of those structures. In the forearm, tendons ride close to the surface and there are many small, stringy muscles attached to them. It's the mechanism that allows you to have such mobile finger - every joing in your hand has a tendon and muscle attached to it. Example, in the index finder, there is a tendon/muscle attached to four joints, in the index finger alone. In surgery, we often use heat to shrink capsules to tighten loose joints. So, yes, if you burn in the same place and you burn deep enough - after the act, the cells are still heated and still burning and spreading heat to nearby cells - you can cause damage through contractures.

Hope this information helps. I'm sorry you are having a difficult time. I hope things ease for you soon.

Be Safe,
Songbird