I’ve broken a few bones in my life and after a few weeks in a cast and maybe some physical therapy I was set to continue like the injury never happened. However last year I dislocated my shoulder and still continued to control the weight that caused the injury so it didn’t slam into the ground causing probably even more damage. After rest, doctor visits, and physical therapy I’m still feeling the effects of the injury. Why is it that a year after a broken bone it’s like it never happened, vs this soft tissue injury still being a problem?
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It depends on the bone, how it broke, and how it healed.
Your body is basically made up of twigs and rubber bands. If one of the rubber bands snaps, the other rubber bands will keep pulling on it, and it will keep hurting. But the rubberbands aren’t actually strong enough to break the twigs.
So if a bone breaks cleanly, and heals well, you might never have a problem with it again after the cast is off, and it might stop hurting before that.
But tendons, muscles, ligaments… There’s no way to immobilize them. They pull on each other constantly, and all of them are strong enough to hurt each other.
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