Accelerated healing of wounds

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To suppress anger is harmful. Evidence that suppressing anger is delaying the healing process, obtained by specialists of the Ohio state University. In their opinion, patients who have a physical injury, you should not restrain your negative emotions and learn to manage them - and then their recovery will be faster.

Details of the study, proving that the inability to control anger is a detrimental effect on wound healing contained in the article of Jean-Philippe Guen and his colleagues, published in the journal "Brain, Behavior and Immunity".

In their experiment involved 98 volunteers who agreed to receive non-hazardous injury: using a vacuum pump them a little damaged skin on the forearm hands, which formed a blister. Scientists have observed the blisters daily for eight days, noting the speed of healing injuries and in parallel recorded the presence in the body patients stress hormone cortisol hoping when mapping these observations to understand the role of stress in the wound healing process. The ability of a person to control their negative emotions were measured using standard methods. Subjects were considered to be slowly recovering patients, if the wound they heal more than four days.

As a result, scientists have noted that the recovery of people who are unable to cope with outbursts of anger, delayed 4.2 times more likely than those who fully controlled his emotions. In humans, poorly controlling their negative emotions, stood out more cortisol, which suggests a link between this hormone and prolonged wound healing.

"We found that people who are able to control your anger, the wound has healed faster. Thus, in this study we were mainly interested in the properties of man, not environment, explained gouin. For example, all participants in our experiment were aware of how they injure, and this procedure caused a little stress. However, not all participants responded to this provocation in the same way. Those who could not fully control his displeasure, stood out more cortisol, the hormone was allocated immediately after the anger. This difference in the reaction to the blistering explains why some of them have wounds heal longer."

Scientists believe that the delay in the recovery process caused by stress, increases susceptibility to infection which can get into the wound. As a result people longer in the hospital. "The slower healing of wounds caused by stress, increases the risk of infection in the wounded place," said gouin, referring to the findings of previous studies which confirm that stress delays the healing. This happens regardless of whether the chronic stress - caused by, for example, the need to care for a loved one suffering from a mental disorder, or short-term, caused, for example, an ordinary family quarrel.

This is the first study demonstrating that the inability to manage your anger can lead to a longer healing process. Fortunately, with methods such as relaxation and cognitive therapy, people can more effectively control their negative emotions. The effectiveness of this approach, the scientists intend to test in subsequent experiments.

©The Daily Telegraph, UK, 2008


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So in terms of stress, the use of MM relaxation will speed up (or rather will not inhibit the normal recovery) the healing process by 4 times.<