Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Why weight lifting is not good during wound healing?


Answer:
You may do more damage
Be really careful with that because the heavy lifting could put a major strain on sutures. If you have had the sutures out and the wound is very pink, do not push your luck. The tissue is still subject to pushing out of the incision so just do mild exercise until the keloid (scar) is healed over and very secure. Follow-up visits and heed the doc's orders. I did that on my ankle and blew some suture which that had to redo and it left quite an ugly scar which took a long time to go away.
Hope this helps.
Peggy
If your wound is significant, the healing process will use up the extra calories you would normally burn working out, plus more besides. So working out will steal the calories you need to heal. I had a huge wound on my **** once, and the first few weeks I was eating 5000 calories a day, not exercising at all, and not gaining any weight.Also, depending on where the wound is, it might be irritated by vigorous activity, which would negate some or all of that day's progress toward healing.Plus, you heal best when your metabolism is at rest. Vigorous exercise funnels energy in to the "fight or flight" mode (aerobic metabolism), instead of towards healing. Lots of rest puts your body into healing mode...Hope that helps, no go back to bed and rest some more! :-)
Best,
Ed, RN
Because you are causing stress on the surgical/laceration site that will break open the wound again. In addition, the muscles and tendons, etc, are all being pulled away or against the site, again putting pressure on the wound. Do NOT do any weightlifting at all during healing. Be careful!
1: It will strecth the wound site and cause it to rupture/ bleed.
2: Muscle is composed of mainly protein. If you lift weights the protein will be going to help nourish and build new muscle. Wound healing also involves the utilisation of protein so it may impair this healing. Having said this, you probably won't notice any difference except if you are low on protein in the first place or you have a large or deep wound.

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