Rizal Philippines
July 20, 2018
or non healing.
This write up is a fair advice to fellow kapadyaks who are smokers.And we have a number of them. I had a conversation over the phone with a kapadyak who had broken bone injury while on the way home, at was travelling slowly.
The first thing the orthopedic surgeons asked him before operating on him to repair his fracture was whether he smoked. Fortunately he is a non smoker. So they operated on him. Otherwise, if he were a smoker, they wouldnt for two reasons: 1. The operation would fail (the bones would not heal) 2. The healing would take longer. They are likely more to experience non union, infection and more pain than non smokers
How smoking affects healing of bones
Some explanations being advanced:
1. Nicotine occludes the arteries and capillaries that supply oxygen and nutrients to the bones, thus leading to
non union and slow healing process
2. Nicotine neutralizes the blood's netrophils the body's defenders hence the possibility of more infections
3. Nicotine causes the growth of cartilage to overwhelm the healing process, preventing bone growthcccc
Since we are all exposed to the possibility of having a crash and/or a fracture, it is important that we do not smoke because the bone healing might not take place, or could take long.
So this is a fair warning to all kapadyak who smoke: either quit biking where you are exposed to bone breakage risk, or quit smoking if you want to continue biking.
Smokers broken bone take 62% more time to heal (or even not at all?)
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