Why can’t all injuries heal conpletely?
I hear all the time about athletes who do something wrong at the gym and could never work out again. Why doesn’t their body heal like normal?
In: Biology
One thing that I haven’t seen mentioned is that healing is done at the cellular level. Cells aren’t very smart and the body can only coordinate them so well. For example, when a bone breaks, the way it heals is that specialized cells will dissolve the bone and reform the bone back from at the site of the break. If the bone is properly set and kept from moving too much, that is good enough. But if untreated and misaligned, the cells will just keep rebuilding the bone from the two broken ends without any knowledge that the bone is misaligned.
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