Bone Edema: causes and remedies

Bone edema is an inflammatory process that occurs inside the trabecular or spongy bone, such as the knee and ankle, producing a buildup of fluid that weakens the bone itself. There are several pathologies that can trigger inflammation.

How it arises

Pathologies of traumatic origin (accident, Falls, bruises) and degenerative, due to the presence of pathologies such as arthrosis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis.

A bone edema also occurs as a reaction of the bone due to high physical load or sports overload. This can cause injury to solid tissues such as calcium, phosphorus and collagen fibers, which can no longer provide stability and flexibility to the body, precisely because they are worn out.

Who is most at risk

It is above all sportsmen who are the subjects at greater risk; both professional sportsmen and those who train with higher loads than those that their body can tolerate and withstand. Overload is closely connected with the level of sports performance of each person and the progression in their activity, such as for those who abruptly switch from a sedentary lifestyle to a more active one, without the body being ready to respond to new stimuli and efforts.

Diagnostic tests

The diagnosis is provided by an MRI that will indicate whether the edema is the product of trauma or whether it is a response to degenerative lesions or other pathologies. In the Anamnesis should also include signs such as localized pain, swelling and hematoma.

Indicated treatments

Curative treatment varies depending on the criticality of inflammation.

It ranges from rest to physical activity in combination with an anti-inflammatory treatment to activities such as swimming, physical activities that do not involve impacts or muscle effort.

In more severe cases, magnetotherapy sessions are useful to reduce edema; in particular biostimulating magnetotherapy greatly reduces the healing time leading to total resolution of the pathology.

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Fracture of the wrist.

The Colles fracture (Abraham Colles, the Irish surgeon who first diagnosed it), that is, the fracture of the wrist, is one of the most common fractures. The causes of the Colles fracture can have different nature: traumatic, as a result of accident or fall, pathological, as a result of pathologies such as osteoporosis.

The fracture can also occur as a result of a mild blow or while carrying out habitual activities that do not provide for a huge physical effort.

However, the statistics show that the fracture Colles occurs mainly as a result of trauma and accidents, i.e. following a violent fall on the palm of the hand with the wrist in extension, causing the rupture.

The most exposed subjects are the elderly (in the case of osteoporosis) and sportsmen, skiers, skaters in particular, in the case of trauma and severe accidents.

How does the colles fracture manifest? The fracture presents with an acute pain but the diagnosis is given above all by the shape that characterizes the wrist following the fall, the so-called bayonet deformity or fork back.

How to treat Colles fracture

Colles fractures are treated with the aid of a realignment and immobilization maneuver with gypsum; in more severe cases surgical intervention is necessary.

To regain lost mobility following weeks when arm and wrist are forced into the plaster case, the patient will be able to choose different therapies.

Often the arm, once freed from the plaster, can appear edematous and the elbow instead rigid such as to make dicile even the simplest movements of the arm.

Osteoplus^® Biostimulator with its action of lymph drainage and biostimulating magnetotherapy, completely reduces skin edema and strengthens bone tissue.

Osteoplus^® also acts through a therapeutic process that reactivates calcium and mineral salts.