The final step in healing a broken bone is remodeling, when your body replaces the connective callus with new, more compact bone. Remodeling makes bones stronger.
If you are insured, your insurer may cover the cost of the device, please check with them first. If you are not insured, please contact the Exogen UK supplier, Bioventus International on 02 04 06 08 free phone , to request a quote for purchasing the machine.
Mr Gordon does not supply the Exogen device. Fractures are often frustratingly slow to heal. The location, pattern or severity of some fractures can impede bone healing and increase your risk of healing failure.
Common health and lifestyle factors such as obesity, diabetes and tobacco use may also interfere with healing. Your fracture shows no sign of healing following the break or you have been diagnosed as having a nonunion fracture.
EXOGEN sends ultrasound waves through skin and surrounding soft tissue to reach the site of the bone fracture. The ultrasound waves activate certain cell receptors, setting off a series of reactions, referred to as a cascade. Within minutes of a bone fracture, the body begins a process to repair the damage. Healing a fracture involves several distinct stages. I can't see why an RF transmitter wouldn't continue to be such providing it continues to have power Jun 11, 7, East Bay, Cali.
Used this exact product on a broken fibula sp? At first the bone was not healing very quickly low blood flow bone so the Doc. I didn't feel a thing and the bone finished healing normally! I'm no doctor but it seemed pretty good to me. Sep 1, 4 0. Last edited: Sep 1, I feel inclined to make a quick update. I ended up buying the Exogen on ebay for or so. I used it for 6 weeks on a broken ankle, it worked fine.
I went back to the doctor and xrayed my ankle to find all the bones were nicely healed. The ligaments were badly damaged and those took longer to feel normal. But now a year later, I'm perfectly fine. The bone healer still had some uses on it when I was done, so I gave it to my buddy with a scaphoid injury.
It was now over 10 months since I bought it. He ended up using it for 4 weeks and his wrist healed fine. Right when the cast came off we went and rode Whistler for 3 weeks and he was not complaining. So after this I think what Cult Hero really meant to say is " Don't buy one on Ebay when you could buy one from me! On page 5 of my manual which you can download from the mfg website , it says the lithium battery has a minimum of treatments.
Since I expect to only use my Exogen for 60 treatments, sounds like it would be silly to not sell it for someone else to use. Here's the bad news, at least in my case. Looking at page 28 of the manual, only 2 of 6 patients had their scaphoid heal with the machine. No wonder my surgeon said the machine wouldn't hurt, but it may not do much to help, either.
Meanwhile, the stupid Exogen rep kept saying how the machine had a something-percent heal rate. I don't know if she was just holding back that the high percentage healing was on bones other than mine, or if she didn't even know enough about her product.
I kept wondering why the rep said it helped so much, but my surgeon said it may not help one bit. Now I see it's because the surgeon was being real, and the Exogen rep was kinda giving me a snow job. Jun 23, 1 Southern California. Sep 7, 31, Bay Area, California. Got milk? My hand surgeon said the same thing. Nothing out there has been scientifically shown to heal scaphoid injury faster. Last edited: Sep 13, So, what happened in your case? I will be seeing him next week at 6-weeks since the surgery, and I guess x-rays will give us a clue if the bones are healing right I have a bone graft from my hip.
May 24, 0. I managed to break my arm this summer, and after research decided to take vitamin and mineral supplements. The head of my Radius near the wrist broke off and also shattered into 3 pieces, so I had pins and a plate. I went for my first ride on dirt in 2 months today. My surgeon saw the x-rays, and went with the conservative approach, and the bone started healing after 2 months.
Took 4 months altogether to heal completely. Then another month to rehab. Mine broke right in the middle, so it was whether it would heal on its own or not. He found a second surgeon who uses stem cells instead of bone grafts. My surgeon didn't really know about the technique. If you are not happy with your surgeon, be aggressive about finding doctors who are at the forefront of new surgical techniques.
Definitely get 2nd opinions. Scaphoid bones are very difficult to heal. Last edited: Sep 19, Jul 31, 3, San Francisco.
Alloy said:. I just have this quest to figure out how top athletes heal so fast. No one seems to want to talk about their special methods that aren't available to the public. Sounds like we had very similar fractures, mine also broke right in the middle. My injury was two years before they discovered the break my original doctor misdiagnosed the painful wrist as a sprain -- stupid doctor should have referred me to an orthopedic specialist.
So, I had my 6 week visit yesterday and finally got my stinky cast off! I see him again in 3 weeks I'm wearing a removable splint now , and hoping at that point I'll be given the okay to start using my wrist again.
Though you mentioned a month rehab, so maybe I'm in for that too I could even be in for another surgery, to fix up a related tendon. I'm doubting the Exogen had much to do with the bone healing since it appears two surgeons don't think it does much for scaphoids, nor does the literature on the product , but who knows? I jogged regularly once I was up for it after surgery it took a couple of weeks before the hip pain subsided enough , and I wonder if getting the blood moving helped at all with the poor circulation of the wrist.
Funny, the guy at the doctor's office who put the cast on me said not to work out, because the sweat would make the cast stinky. How crazy is that, worrying about making the cast sweaty over trying to do whatever possible to make this big surgery a success?!
Now it's time to ask my rep WTF? Bman Chimp.
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