Dr. Robert Whitfield explains why the body sometimes heals too aggressively. After injuries, calcium deposits can form like eggshells, and orthopedic surgeries sometimes trigger heterotopic ossification, where bone grows where it shouldn't. He's frustrated there's so little research on why the body overreacts this way.
It is an interesting phenomenon, and I would say the issue is your body has this reaction, and I see it anecdotally, which, you know, it's not been studied. I see it more often with texture that you get more of a response of this kind of little eggshell or calcium deposits. And I don't know why. Um, it's just one of those things that it's super, um, frustrating. Like, there's this concept in surgery that we see when people get like orthopedic surgery, like bone surgery, and it's called heterotopic ossification. But like, the bone heals, but it heals too well. I don't know what's driving it. But it's like your body's trying to— I don't want to say heal too well in this instance, but it's overreacting to the situation. It's like an out-of-balance response. And I guess for me personally, I'm fascinated by always how your body is always trying to take care of you and how it's trying to surveil the situation and respond to the situations depending on what they are.
