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Eighty Percent

July 31st, 2006

As you may recall, I broke the fifth metatarsal of my right foot last December, and it’s been taking forever to heal. Since it did not heal well by the beginning of June, I started with an ultrasound therapy, and that seems to be doing a much better job. Check out the image below: my foot when I broke it on December 3, again in April (five months later, not very well healed), and then just the other day in mid-July.

Xray-Dec-Apr-Jul

The doc told me that the bone is now 80% healed, so with the new therapy, it might be all the way back by the end of August. That ultrasound pulse stuff seems to actually work. In fact, they seem to be finding more uses for it–including growing new teeth. The article, which I noticed a few weeks ago, details the exact same treatment that I’m using for my feet, except instead of SAFHS, it’s called LIPUS, and has a much smaller and automatic pulse generator.

How about that?

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