I am accident prone. I’ve broken both my arms several times, slipped the growth disc in my left wrist, had the tendon to my left ring finger severed and cracked my head open on numerous occasions. I’m no stranger to the hospital and the medical cast. It’s not new to me to have my arms or head bandaged up for long periods of time and I’m sure if you’ve suffered similar accidents in the past you’ll be used to it too. To start with it can be a bit of a tricky issue but you get used to only having one arm on full form.
When I suffered those injuries I was fairly young which meant that my wound always healed quickly and I was back in fight form without too much fuss or hassle. As you get older you naturally take longer to heal and as you approach old age it may be that natural healing takes a very long time indeed, especially for things like fractured bones. This may no longer be the issue it once was.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have given the go ahead for the UK to use a new ultrasound bone healing device. This wonderful piece of technology will help to promote bone growth through the use of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound waves. These waves are pumped straight into the broken bone through a small transducer which is strapped to the arm. In cases where bone healing is taking too long or not occurring in the right way this machine’s going to improve a lot of lives!
It’s been designed to be applied by the patient at home and each session should only take 20 minutes. The treatment will only be used on slow healing fractures that have taken more than nine months to heal but perhaps, in the future we’ll see this technology adapted to more general use!
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