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Each stage of the fracture healing process brings with it increased nutritional demands. For starters, the whole process requires a great deal of energy—which is generally supplied through the intake of calories in food. Next, healing requires the synthesis of new proteins, which is dependent upon an ample supply of amino acids derived from dietary proteins. An adequate blood supply is also mandatory for fracture healing, so anything that diminishes blood flow (such as smoking or poor circulation) slows the healing process
Keep in mind that these systems and the nutrient values they represent were established to cover nutritional adequacy for most folks, not for optimizing health! The common therapeutic dose for healthy and strong bones may be higher for most, and significantly higher in “special need” cases.
While no scientist has yet conducted a clinical trial using all 20 key nutrients for fracture healing, several studies have found multi‐nutrient therapy to reduce complication and found fracture patients given complex multi‐nutrient supplementation containing protein, carbohydrates, amino acids, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, trace minerals, and fat soluble vitamins, had only a 15% rate of complications as compared to a 70% complications rate among the non‐supplemented group
I was wondering if the ibuprofen was having an effect on the pain. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes not. So I stopped it for 6 hours. Bad idea. Much worse without the meds.Also feel some internal ache as well.
There is no robust clinical and/or scientific evidence to discard the use of NSAIDs in patients suffering from a fracture, but equal lack of evidence does not constitute proof of the absence of an effect.
For example, almost all of the U.S. milk supply is voluntarily fortified with 100 IU/cup
TKA patients receiving placebo exhibited greater quadriceps muscle atrophy, with a –14.3 ± 3.6% change from baseline to 2 weeks after surgery compared with –3.4 ± 3.1% for the EAA group and a –18.4 ± 2.3% change from baseline to 6 weeks after surgery for placebo versus –6.2 ± 2.2% for the EAA group
Conclusion. EAA treatment attenuated muscle atrophy and accelerated the return of functional mobility in older adults following TKA.
Do other fractured patella victims experience this type of pain? If so, has their physiotherapist or OS told them what its cause is?