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Injuries: Joints take three months to heal - and muscle injuries?

2022-08-05T04:36:38.331Z


Injuries: Joints take three months to heal - and muscle injuries? Created: 08/05/2022 06:31 By: Juliane Gutmann Depending on the injury, the body needs a sufficiently long time to recover. If the joint is damaged, you should rest for a particularly long time. The body is a master at recognizing and replacing defective tissues. If you cut your finger, for example, it only takes a few days for t


Injuries: Joints take three months to heal - and muscle injuries?

Created: 08/05/2022 06:31

By: Juliane Gutmann

Depending on the injury, the body needs a sufficiently long time to recover.

If the joint is damaged, you should rest for a particularly long time.

The body is a master at recognizing and replacing defective tissues.

If you cut your finger, for example, it only takes a few days for the cut to heal.

Even in the case of a sunburn, first aid is immediately initiated by the body itself.

In a first step, the programmed cell death of the damaged epidermal cells is initiated, as the specialist journal PTAheute informs.

If the skin is peeling, that's a good sign.

Namely, that new and healthy skin has reproduced and dead cells are shed, it is said.

But not only superficial injuries and damage heal thanks to the body's own repair mechanisms.

The body can also overcome internal injuries such as a torn ligament or a sprain – if you give it enough time.

Joints heal from all injured tissues particularly slowly, as the German Arthrosis Aid Association informs.

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Injuries to the joints, muscles, tendons: that's how long you have to take a break

If a joint is damaged, it should be rested for three months, according to the recommendation of the German Arthrosis Aid.

If this healing time is not waited for and if the joint is already fully loaded during this time, healing will be delayed and the joint will even become more and more damaged.

So the warning on the website of the association.

Many resume their training before the three-month grace period or end the grace period, for example because the joint no longer causes pain.

The absolutely wrong way, because it increases the risk of osteoarthritis enormously, it is said.

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Tendon diseases and tendon injuries also take a long time to heal.

The Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin informs that the reason for this is the poor blood circulation in the tendons.

Due to this fact, they heal very slowly, according to the Charité information.

In order to restore functionality, complete tendon tears would therefore usually be treated surgically.

In the case of muscle injuries, a regeneration period of around three weeks can be expected, according to the German Arthrosis Aid Association. The most common complaints here are muscle strains and muscle fiber tears.

Muscle injuries make up about 30 percent of all sports injuries, according to the orthopedics / sports traumatology department at the KLINIK am RING in Cologne.

Important in order to avoid a lengthy history of illness: Prevent a sufficiently long rest period from resulting in a larger injury from a small muscle injury that has not healed, so the appeal of the clinic.

Source: merkur

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