there are millions upon millions upon tens of millions of folks walking around this globe (i know. it's my job as spokesmodel for the planet, and i took a poll.) with torn miniscuses (minuski?) in various states of noninvasive repair. seems like 6 months to a year does it for most. of course, those on a career path dependent upon their physical state for the cash often have a different timeline, and choose to have the ol snip and stitch. or staple. prolly should change the name of most ortho practices to "Staples,' or 'Corto Shots-R-Us.' appropriately applied, corto shots are absolutely one of the best modern medical inventions. fire that sucker in there, then sit around and wait for the offending bone or tissue to just melt away.
as to bone trauma, which always hurts like the dickens (whatever that means), and excluding extreme events like compound fractures (tho i have seen it 'treated' by wrapping banana leaves and twine around it. pro tip: don't go to those places -no micky d's there, and the water is usually really bad), well, given the proper environment for healing (rest, nutrition, mebbe a banana leaf brace or two to superstructure the area, and remind it 'this is how it was,' they too can heal back to 'normal' or mostly normal -functionally useful at the least.
i don't know what sum of youse have been doing the past million years or so (actually, much longer. much. much, longer), but it's called evolution. anyone here familiar with our nervous system? it's only aboot 600 million years old. thanks sea squirt! im still waiting for the experts to explain that interesting point that our nervous system is filled to the max with endocanibinoid receptors.... some of those bone events don't end up meshing back together, and can leave some pieces floating around, which can subsequently be removed to end that annoyance. 'cleaning it up' is a common phrase. or deck screws sumtimes.
the big question tho, for the numero uno health issue on the planet -back pain. there's that pesky problem of evolution again, shifting from cruising around on all fours to walking on two (duh).
why don't people make situps a part of their routine at the first sign of trouble?
what's that modern phrase again? oh, right -core health. also a very good program for digestive health, sleep, defeating time, and so on and so forth...
good thing great gramms used to say when we were kids, and complained aboot a non-life threatening injury, i think boo-boo is the technical term, and we would say 'but it hurts!, she'd be like 'hurts? rent-a-car!'
good thing cuz it seems like i've broken or torn everything over the years. lot's of hospitals, surgeries, and the like. the face rebuild one is a funny story, and the shattered leg in first grade taught me a most valuable life lesson - don't chase the girls, let them chase you.
pro tip: iffn u kind of like the way ur thumb works, avoid, avoid, avoid injuring that rubber band below it cuz it takes forever to get right. opposable digit and all that. we're special, and that one really reminds us all the time. evolution.
absent the unusual, paige will be fine. sore for a bit, but fine nonetheless. and yes, micky d burgers are wonderful therapy for healing broken parts, both mentally and physically. pack on the protein and fat calories, cuz ur body an't healing with just air and kale as nutrition.
Hippocrates -'food is medicine and medicine is food.'
up next? water therapy! i got stories on that, lot's of them, going back a 100 years or more. here's one. Senator George 'Doc' Gunther (pretty famous as the longest serving in our state house in history), jack dempsey the world champ boxer and drunk as a skunk (whatever that means), capone era chicago, his job in a hydrotherapy schvitzbath there, and the day they all came together. the cut off ear in a hankie (from a cadaver) story is good too. the pie spitting one notsomuch. whacky college kids.
here's a freebie- got knee or foot issues? mebbe hips too?
head down to the edge of the salt water, around up to ur knees. walk in the mucky stuff.
you can build muscle at any age. get out of ur chair.