Kalupada Seka : Bone Healing Treatment

Bone Healing Treatment

The treatment is locally known as Kalupada Ghat Seka Chikitsa based upon the name of the village Kalupada under Chilika Block in Khordha District. Where a family of ayurveds give this treatment. It is a family occupation and they don't divulge their modality. First the place of the fracture is covered with a poultice of a certain herbal mixture and over this heat is applied in the form of a heated iron rod. The patient does not feel the heat. The treatment is very popular here and even the railways have made a special stoppage at that place for the convenience of patients. In the process of fracture healing, several phases of recovery facilitate the proliferation and protection of the areas surrounding fractures and dislocations. The length of the process depends on the extent of the injury, and usual margins of two to three weeks are given for the reparation of most upper bodily fractures; anywhere above four weeks given for lower bodily injury. The process of the entire regeneration of the bone can depend on the angle of dislocation or fracture. While the bone formation usually spans the entire duration of the healing process, in some instances, bone marrow within the fracture has healed two or fewer weeks before the final remodeling phase. While immobilization and surgery may facilitate healing, a fracture ultimately heals through physiological processes. The healing process is mainly determined by the periosteum (the connective tissue membrane covering the bone). The periosteum is one source of precursor cells which develop into chondroblasts and osteoblasts that are essential to the healing of bone. The bone marrow (when present), endosteum, small blood vessels, and fibroblasts are other sources of precursor cells.