When we break a bone or sprain a ligament, where is the blood taken from to pool in that area? How does the body keep it there, and why does ice help get it away from there?
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Your bones are filled with blood, that’s where your blood is made. It’s also likely that if you’re breaking a bone, you’re also injuring the surrounding tissue as well, which is surrounded by blood vessels. So when you break a bone, blood from inside the bone and around the affected area is why pools there. Ligaments don’t actually have much blood in them, which is why they can become serious if not properly addressed. The blood that goes to affected areas of breaks forms a clot like any other injury, but there is also another process where the bone itself forms its own type of scab. The blood stays there because after it clots it can’t move anymore because the clotting process creates a structure that holds the clot in place. Ice doesn’t help the blood stay there, it just reduces inflammation by causing blood vessels to constrict, slowing down blood flow
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