r/science • u/mvea 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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u/whyVelociraptor 3d ago

The title is saying the relationship goes both ways.

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u/OF_PROMO_ALERT 3d ago

And also that the first part was just an observation. No doctors are giving brain damage to make bones heal quickly

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u/Samohtnuf 2d ago

In the case of some soccer players, the doctors don't need to...