Inflammation helps heal wounds

Scientists in the United States discovered that inflammation does fulfill, after all, a role in the healing of muscular wounds.
Muscles

Inflammation releases a compound that helps repair the muscle.
The researchers found that inflammation, which is a biological response of vascular tissues to external stimuli, produces high levels of a compound that significantly increases the rate of muscle regeneration.

The finding, say scientists in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB), could change the way these types of injuries are treated.

In particular, the study says, perhaps it will be necessary to rethink whether the powerful anti-inflammatory drugs are necessary when these wounds are suffered.

“We hope our discovery will lead to more detailed studies to investigate the different roles that tissue inflammation plays in the clinic,” says Dr. Lan Zhou, one of the scientists at the Neuroinflammation Research Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

“We hope to be able to use the positive effects of tissue inflammation and control its negative effects,” he adds.
Controlled inflammation

So far, the widespread belief is that inflammation must be largely controlled to stimulate healing.
So when you suffer muscle injuries, conventional treatment is to reduce this process with anti-inflammatory drugs, such as cortisone.