What You Need to Know About Healing Fractures

There are some guidelines which are to be followed by the doctors to perform an X-ray. These guide lines are helpful in the correct assessment of the fracture and its type. Sometimes a single fracture is not single as seen in X-ray it may be associated with some other injuries. 

Bed rest is recommended by the doctor once the diagnosis of fractured bone has been done. Patient is asked to rest on a long flat surface like a piece of wooden board. Some pain medications are also given to the patient. Braces are the option while treating the compression fracture of vertebral column. Vertebroplasty   can also be used n treating the spinal cord injury.

Casting is one of the treatment options for fractures. Casting helps to set the separate bones at an angle and prevents mobility. Immobilization of the fractured bone is essential for the proper bone healing.  Aside from diagnosing the injury using an X-ray, the same diagnosing tool is also needed after 7-10 days to check the calcium deposits at the fractured site.

After few days of callus formation the bone remodeling is done by the bone. Callus becomes the part of bone to form a strong new bone similar to previous one. 

The fibroblasts in the granulation tissue also develop into chondroblasts to form the hyaline cartilage. The process continues until the fractured gap is filled completely. This process is called as callus formation. In the next phase the hyaline cartilage is replaced by spongy bone formed by collagen fibers.

Remodeling, the healing phase after callus formation, happens this way. The spongy trabecular bone is now replaced with compact bone. Thus the callus forms a new shape but closely duplicate to the original shape. The new bone formed is as strong as the old one.