How to lose weight after a fracture

Fractures are often caused by sports. After the fracture is treated, these friends want to return to sports. However, the recovery period for fractures is really long. At this time, they cannot exercise at will and need to undergo rehabilitation training according to relevant methods. Some friends also ask how to lose weight after a fracture? At this time, it is best not to lose weight casually. You need to ensure your health first to avoid sequelae.

Seven points of exercise for fracture recovery

Many people believe that rest is the main focus after a fracture, as random activities will affect bone recovery. In fact, this understanding is extremely wrong.

A survey shows that many patients suffer from bone growth defects and become disabled due to excessive lack of exercise after fracture, or even lack of proper rehabilitation exercises. Experts recommend that patients with fractures exercise under the guidance of a doctor.

Three Benefits of Exercise After a Fracture

In fact, the treatment of fractures is not as simple as resetting, fixing, and waiting for recovery. Exercise also plays a significant role in the treatment of fractures. Therefore, there is a saying that fracture treatment consists of "three parts treatment and seven parts exercise." Exercise has many benefits, not only can it aid recovery, but it can also help patients recover faster.

1. Promote swelling reduction and prevent joint adhesion and stiffness: After a fracture, the soft tissue at the fracture site generally has varying degrees of bleeding and edema, and a lump will appear on the injured limb. If the lump is not eliminated in time, it will cause adhesion of the corresponding soft tissue and even harden it. This adhesion can also occur between muscles and tendons, between tendons and synovium, and within joints, affecting the function of muscle contraction. Therefore, after a fracture, many people will feel that the joints around the fracture are not as mobile as before, and some even become swollen and deformed. Functional exercise can avoid this situation.

2. Promote fracture healing: Through functional exercise, the muscles of the injured limb can perform repeated contraction and relaxation activities, which can strengthen the longitudinal squeezing force of the fracture, reduce the fracture gap, make the fracture more stable, improve the nutrition of the fracture site, and promote fracture healing. Functional exercises can also correct minor fracture dislocations and promote fracture healing.

3. Prevent thrombosis: For patients with fractures who have been bedridden for a long time, blood circulation will slow down due to the lack of muscle contraction and relaxation. When blood flows slowly in damaged blood vessels, thrombosis is likely to form. Small blood clots can dissolve on their own, but if the blood clots are large, they will fall off the blood vessel wall and enter the systemic circulation with the blood, causing infarction of important organs such as the heart, brain, and lungs, and even causing sudden death. Through functional exercise, the elasticity of the blood vessel walls around the injury can be enhanced, blood circulation can be unblocked, and thrombosis can be prevented.