MAUD NERMAN DO CSPOMM
Osteopathic Physician and Classical Homeopath
CONTROLLING INFLAMMATION IS ESSENTIAL FOR HEALING
Like a Phoenix, health can arise from the fires of inflammation.
Inflammation is part of your body’s normal and necessary response to trauma. Your body increases blood flow to the injured region, rushes in garbage collectors to remove debris and contractors to rebuild damaged muscles, blood vessels, nerves, and connective tissue. We experience this repair process as swelling and inflammation.
But when the injury overwhelms the body’s ability to manage these processes, inflammation takes off like a runaway train. Inflammation can cause an injured joint to lose mobility, further increasing inflammation and placing strain on other parts of the body. The result of runaway inflammation is constant pain, chronic muscle spasm, increasing inflammation and worsening injury to the nervous system. Even worse, chronic inflammation is being linked to a rogue’s gallery of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cancer, Alzheimers’, heart disease, and stroke. In order to heal, you must turn off runaway inflammation.
Dealing with runaway inflammation usually requires a multi-pronged approach, including attending to diet and exercise. Osteopathic manipulative medicine can be highly effective in helping control inflammation. If the injured area is still misaligned, osteopathic treatment can help the body realign itself and break the cycle of continued injury and inflammation. If the diaphragm is in spasm, osteopathic manipulation can help it work more efficiently, increasing the lymphatic flow which floats away inflammation-causing debris. If the ribs are stuck, osteopathic manipulation can help the ribcage expand, increasing the breath and calming the fight-or-flight reaction that stokes the inflammatory fires.
Increasing the efficiency of nerve impulses, realigning an injured area, improving circulation and stimulating the immune system are just a few of the ways osteopathic manipulation can help inflammation do its healing work and then resolve into health.
But when the injury overwhelms the body’s ability to manage these processes, inflammation takes off like a runaway train. Inflammation can cause an injured joint to lose mobility, further increasing inflammation and placing strain on other parts of the body. The result of runaway inflammation is constant pain, chronic muscle spasm, increasing inflammation and worsening injury to the nervous system. Even worse, chronic inflammation is being linked to a rogue’s gallery of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cancer, Alzheimers’, heart disease, and stroke. In order to heal, you must turn off runaway inflammation.
Dealing with runaway inflammation usually requires a multi-pronged approach, including attending to diet and exercise. Osteopathic manipulative medicine can be highly effective in helping control inflammation. If the injured area is still misaligned, osteopathic treatment can help the body realign itself and break the cycle of continued injury and inflammation. If the diaphragm is in spasm, osteopathic manipulation can help it work more efficiently, increasing the lymphatic flow which floats away inflammation-causing debris. If the ribs are stuck, osteopathic manipulation can help the ribcage expand, increasing the breath and calming the fight-or-flight reaction that stokes the inflammatory fires.
Increasing the efficiency of nerve impulses, realigning an injured area, improving circulation and stimulating the immune system are just a few of the ways osteopathic manipulation can help inflammation do its healing work and then resolve into health.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO CALM INFLAMMATION
Exercise and diet are two of the simplest ways to help tame runaway inflammation. Banish junk from your diet and replace it with fresh fruits and vegetables. Appropriate exercise can help flush toxins away and mobilize an injured joint. And drink plenty of water to help the body wash away the debris of injury that can continue to stoke the inflammatory fires.