As an expert in the field of eliminating Tendonitis related issues like Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Wrist Tendonitis, and Tennis Elbow, I spend a lot of time looking at, learning about, and educating about the Process of Inflammation.

My primary focus is specific injury and general localized Inflammation.

Kerri Knox, my favorite Immune Queen, asked me to speak on her blog about my view on Inflammation and how it might relate to the physical issues that she deals with when helping her clients become pain free. 

I'm going to share that here too.

Let’s jump right into it.

Localized Inflammation

Inflammation is a Process that the body kicks in EVERY SINGLE TIME your nervous system feels pain.

In the case of a Tennis Elbow injury, for instance, if there is a little bit of wear and tear injury, the body responds by kicking in a Process of Inflammation.

The Inflammation Response is designed to protect you.. It helps you heal, and it attempts to keep you from hurting yourself even more.

The problem is, the way it does this causes problems. I call it “The Downward Spiral”.

Before you even feel it, there is Pain

First there is a little bit of pain. The body wants to protect you, so it does the only thing it knows how to do: it kicks in an Inflammation Process, which traps fluid in the area and releases chemicals which enhance your sensitivity to pain (a.k.a., ‘the chemical’)

The Chemical makes your muscles tighten up, and they make your neuro-receptors MORE SENSITIVE, so you hurt more.

Tight muscles limit necessary circulation, which makes you hurt more. The Chemical gets trapped in the half squeezed muscles, and makes you hurt more. Things get tight, stay tight, and you hurt more and more.

Then, guess what? Remember what the nervous system does when it feels pain?  Yep, it kicks in inflammation, which tightens things up and releases chemical to enhances your sensitivity to pain.

This is an important concept: Your body’s response to tightness and pain is to create more tightness and pain….which builds on itself to create more tightness and pain.

It’s a Downward Spiral of ever increasing tightness and pain.

This is why Carpal Tunnel, Tennis Elbow, Wrist Tendonitis, etc, start to hurt, and then eventually continue to hurt, ultimately getting worse and worse.

As a general rule, Doctors don’t fully understand how inflammation works at the local, small injury level. They certainly don’t understand it at a deeper, systemic level.

Whether it’s the entire system, or just one of the body’s systems having a problem, it’s incredibly useful to understand how all the variable parts fit together to form the bigger picture.

Why does that happen at a local level?

How does it work at the systemic level?

Stay tuned and find out.