Natural pain and inflammation relief
Did you know that often taking NSAIDs such as Advil after fracturing a bone will delay the healing process. It turns out the same mechanisms your body uses to heal soft tissue injuries also apply to the regeneration of new bone.
The process of bone fracture healing can be divided into four phases: immediate, early, regenerative, and remodeling. The immediate phase alerts your body to the injury. The early phase, characterized by inflammation, creates the pain and swelling associated with the fracture and is critical to successful fracture healing. The prostaglandins produced by the body in the early phase are essential in sustaining the healing process until the bone is completely healed. The regenerative phase occurs when the fracture is bridged with new bone, and the remodeling phase is when the newly generated bone is replaced with mature bone to restore strength and integrity.
When NSAIDs are taken after a break or a fracture bone healing is inhibited because the activity of bone-building cells, called osteoblasts, is not supported by the presence of prostaglandins. Without prostaglandins, osteoblasts can still make new bone, "but not as robustly,'' said Dr. Thomas Einhorn, chairman of orthopedic surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine. The result, a bone that isn't quite as good as new.
As it turns out the old adage is right — no pain, no gain. When we use NSAIDs to block prostaglandins in an attempt to keep ourselves from feeling the pain of an injury, we are in fact stopping the healing mechanisms of the body. Inflammation is a necessary process that increases blood flow to deliver nutrients and recruit the necessary cells to clean-up and rebuild to the area of the body that has been injured. Pain is our body's way of telling us it is time to let that area of the body rest. Any medication that inhibits the inflammatory process in turn inhibits the body's ability to heal itself.
David Ogden
CEO TheInterbiz LLC
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