Fractures and Bone Healing

The healing of bones during fractures is always an interesting process which the body is always capable of. If given the proper conditions, some fractured bone can heal back to their normal conditions without actually developing bone scars especially if the injured person is still young, have a healthy bone condition, had enough healing time and the surgeon has done a good job with the repair. When there is the callus formation on the bone’s fracture site during bone healing, this formation is called the fracture callus.  There are two ways how the process of fracture healing undergoes and these are the direct or primary bone healing and indirect or secondary bone healing. Types of Fracture Callus • Primary healing is the process wherein the bones will try to re-establish themselves after the fracture happens. The bone on the other side of the cortex will try to unite with the bone that is on the other side and then do the mechanical continuity of the healing process until fr...