Bone Healing by Nutrition and…Magnets?

The treatment of a broken bone usually involves the doctor forcing the displaced bones back into place, with or without anesthetic, stabilizing their position and then waiting for the bone’s natural healing process to take over.

That healing process is significantly speeded up if the patient receives good nutrition, according to a report by Med Market Research has also found that ontogenesis has been greatly improved when the fracture area is exposed to an external static magnetic field. This seems to stimulate physiological processes behind most stages of ontogenesis.

The regeneration of the bone can also depend on the angle of dislocation, investigators write. While the bone formation usually spans the entire duration of the healing process, in some instances researchers have found that bone marrow within the fracture has healed two or fewer weeks before the final remodeling phase.

While immobilization may facilitate healing, a fracture ultimately heals through physiological processes. The healing process is mainly determined by the periosteum (the connective tissue membrane covering the bone). The periosteum is one source of precursor cells which develop into chondroblasts and osteoblasts that are essential to the healing of bone. The bone marrow, endosteum, small blood vessels, and fibroblasts are other sources of precursor cells.