Ouch, This Text from My Mother-in-Law Yesterday

My first thought: light therapy (have you tried it?)

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Kaci O’Dell
May 04, 2024

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My mother-in-law texted our group chat this morning:

“What a way to start the day. I slipped getting out of the garage and broke my ankle.”

An injury like this is bad enough on an ordinary month. But it’s no ordinary month because we all are set to leave in two weeks for a destination wedding (her son’s, in fact) in Florida.

Next Thursday she goes in for surgery. She’s in a ton of pain right now.

My first thought? Light therapy.

Which she hadn’t heard of before.

“We show that LLLT plays an important role in augmenting bone tissue formation, which is relevant to fracture healing.”

I’m not sure if she’ll use light therapy as a treatment or not, but a device I like to recommend for this type of thing is Photizo Pain Relief (affiliate link). It’s not cheap, but it’s another one of those products that you’ll have for the long haul — an investment in a future where you do your best to avoid injuries, but where accidents, like an unexpected ankle break, do happen.

Photizo Light Therapy

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1 Sella, V. R. G., do Bomfim, F. R. C., Machado, P. C. D., et al. (2015). Effect of low-level laser therapy on bone repair: A randomized controlled experimental study. Lasers in Medical Science, 30, 1061-1068. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10103-015-1710-0

2 Probowati, R., Astuti, A. M., Anasulfalah, H., & Wahyuni, D. T. (2024, April). Effectiveness of Auricular Acupressure for Maternity Blues. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Nursing and Health Sciences (Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 163-170).

3 Bao, Y., Ding, H., Zhang, Z., Yang, K., Tran, Q., Sun, Q., & Xu, T. (2023). Intelligent acupuncture: Data-driven revolution of traditional Chinese medicine. Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, 3(4), 271-284. https://doi.org/10.1097/HM9.0000000000000077

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