How to rehabilitate bone and joint injuries

  The ultimate goal of our fracture treatment is fracture healing and restoration of normal functional activity. However, the fracture often needs to be fixed for a long time during the treatment process, which may lead to muscle atrophy, intra-articular adhesions or ligament degeneration and loss of elasticity due to long-term immobilization of the limb, and joint stiffness, resulting in the limb not being able to resume normal function even though the fracture has healed, and even causing disability. In order to prevent such adverse consequences, we need to start functional training as early as possible.  The purpose of rehabilitation is to promote the maximum recovery of body function after fracture through targeted functional training, to prevent complications and secondary diseases, to compensate for the part that has lost function through functional training of other parts, to improve the quality of life, and to promote the patient’s early return to society.  Orthopedic rehabilitation techniques such as exercise therapy and occupational therapy are mainly used, but also comprehensive treatment such as herbal fumigation, electricity, light, sound and warm therapy, cold therapy, hydrotherapy and wax therapy are used to promote the recovery of bone, joint and muscle functions.