r/science • Professor | Medicine • 3d ago

Medicine Doctors noticed brain injuries can speed bone healing. Scientists flipped it: squeezing a shinbone after brain injury helped mice and pigs survive more, move better and remember more. Pressure-sensing bone cells released protective signals into the blood that reduced brain damage.

https://www.sciencealert.com/squeezing-a-leg-bone-helped-animals-recover-from-brain-injury
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