How to recover and exercise after fracture

Rehabilitation training can generally begin after fracture fixation, which can not only prevent joint adhesion and stiffness, reduce muscle atrophy, but also promote swelling regression and fracture healing.

1. Promote detumescence and prevent joint adhesion and stiffness: After fracture, there are different degrees of bleeding and edema in the soft tissue of the fracture, which hinders the backflow of veins and lymph, thus leading to a lump in the affected limb. If this lump is not eliminated in time, it may lead to adhesion and even sclerosis of the corresponding soft tissue. This adhesion may occur in muscles and tendons, tendons and synovium, and joints, thus affecting the functional exercise of muscle contraction and promoting the return of veins and lymph.

2. Promote fracture healing: Repeated contraction and contraction of the injured limb muscles can strengthen the longitudinal compression force of the fracture, narrow the fracture gap, make the fracture more stable, improve the nutrition of the fracture site, enhance the bone bearing capacity of the fracture end, and promote fracture healing. Functional exercise can also correct minor fractures and dislocations, which is also beneficial to fracture healing.

3. Promote blood circulation: Functional exercise can promote blood circulation and prevent thrombosis. For patients who stay in bed for a long time, because there is no muscle contraction and contraction movement, blood circulation will slow down, which will reduce tissue metabolism and prolong the healing process of injury. Due to the damage of the traumatic bleeding wall itself, blood clots are easily formed when the blood flows slowly in the damaged blood vessels, which is called "thrombus". Small thrombus can dissolve by itself. If the thrombus is large, it will fall off from the blood vessel wall and flow with the blood.

4. Reduce complications: Regular exercise can prevent bone, joint and muscle complications, such as osteoporosis, delayed fracture healing, joint adhesion, joint capsule contracture, joint stiffness and muscle atrophy.

In order to enable patients to overcome the injury and restore their physical function to the greatest extent, only by adhering to scientific functional exercise under the guidance of medical staff can the best therapeutic effect be achieved.