Our skeleton system consists of bones and cartilages. The tendons and muscles keep the bones attached to each other and help them to move. Any kinds of stress or damage to the bone or even a slight injury to the tendons or muscles hamper movement| . Medically such a case where the tendons get injured is called Tendonitis.. It’s common symptoms are pain with burning sensation and stiffness of the joints. Sometimes knots may be formed around the joint.

Tendonitis treatment is constricted to the use of pain killers and physical therapy. A careful and gradual return to physical exercise after adequate rest is advised. To treat tendonitis the acronym “rice” is followed which stands for rest, ice, compress and elevate. chronic tendonitis is treated with the help of laser therapy.

The broken bones get treated through a physiological process in which the body itself heals the injured part.The physiological process of the body plays an important role in the process of healing even after rest and surgery.

There are three main phases of physiological healing:

1. The reactive phase involves the formation of granulation tissues around the inflated injured area.
2. The callus and lamellar cells get deposited in the reparative phase.
3. finally the bone gets repaired to it’s original shape.

Casting the injured bone with fibre glass or plaster, followed by rest and the ongoing physiological process helps in healing putting cast around the injured part can be a traumatic experience causing physical trauma to the patient. Such traumatic experiences may cause panic attacks or numbing of the body parts.

Trauma healing will therefore have to form an integral part of the total process of broken bone healing . Various methods have been advised with this in mind. The trauma related health problems faced by a patient is solved by somatic approach. In this approach the patient’s tensions related to his bodily experiences are tried to be released.

Internal Family Systems Therapy, EMDR are some of the other approaches in which the therapist tries to build the self belief of an individual.

Finally it the person who has already gone through the physical and emotional phases of trauma, can help in understanding the hardships of another such individual and help in the process of healing . National Centre for Trauma Informed Care is an organization formed by a group of such people. They guide people to overcome their traumatic experiences.

Find more information on trauma healing and bone bruise.