#heat for inflammation

[somecunttookmyurl]

forgive my absolute ignorance and maybe stupidity, but does swimming and other pool related activities help hypermobility? Whenever I told anyone related to medicine I'm having joint pain, they told me to take many a bath and frequent a pool

yes. water-related actitivites help with joint pain a) by in the case of exercise like aerobics and swimming building muscle and b) doing so whilst relieving pressure on the joints because the water is holding you up

hot baths will relieve pressure on the joints (unlike standing or even sitting to take a shower) and the heat will relax the muscles whilst the water supports you

[astramachina]

being on testosterone while inhabiting a body that's falling apart, including a disease that went undiagnosed for twenty years and has rendered my insides permanently scarred to the point that i will never be able to live a pain free life, drives me fucking insane. because said disease is hardly studied in cis women, doctor are just left flustered and twiddling their thumbs when my ass entered the chat.

"testosterone should slow the progression" cool, then why am i getting flare-ups that increase in frequency and severity. "uuuuuuh a full removal will probably do the trick but honestly we tend to leave a chunk in to help regulate women's bodies so we have no fucking idea whether or not we should go ahead and do something similar to you so you should talk to your doctor--" idk how to tell you but YOU ARE MY DOCTOR.

i'm tired, scoob. yeah the pelvic pain/lower back pain sucks ass to the point where i have to walk hunched over, but even that pales to the anxiety of having my abdomen and chest be in pain. just. christ.

[halffizzbin]

If cold is bad for my body then why does it feel good

[harrowharkwife]

does anyone have any tips for fixing a pinched nerve in your neck/shoulder bc im dying over here

[texas-girl-49]

just wanted to let you know that every time i see your name i start singing california gurls (they r unforgettable)

was gonna write a joke about “TEXAS GURLS, THEY ARE ___” but for some reason the first word i thought of was “inflammable.” so

[vizthedatum]

Tomorrow is a new day. I took an at-home urinalysis test and I think I’m IC flaring BLAH.

Ugh. I had an amazing vacation but I’ve been so stressed by my life and all the uncertainty I’ve been facing.

Despite my pain and fatigue, I feel a lot more relaxed after some self-care though: showered, sanitized my makeup, cleaned a little, wrote up baking plans for the weekend, moisturized, told myself affirmations, ate more food, journaled, listened to music, and told myself that I am so much happier not being in a relationship where I felt my emotional needs were unfulfilled (and I truly am happier).

Tomorrow: I’ll have lunch out with one really amazing friend, then co-work with my brother the rest of the day, and really try to get my work tasks done. I know I can do this. And it’s not the end of the world if I can’t.

[chr0n1c-ag0ny]

ok, I have zero reasoning for this other than projecting but...Tachihara has Erythromelalgia (aka Hell on earth). I don't know why, it just feels right (I like projecting my pain and suffering on my favorite characters)

[lunarflare64]

WHY IS STRESS A FUCKING TRIGGER FOR EVERY MEDICAL CONDITION FUCKING ARTHRITIS FUCKING FUCK

[elspethdixon]

Where’s the option for “medium, but I don’t bother with pain meds for menstruation-related pain because they do nothing useful?”

no options for people who don't have periods, sorry, just wait.

if you had periods in the past but no longer have them for whatever reason, you can vote too, on what the effect on your life used to be.

TERFS FUCK OFF I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE AND VOTING IN THIS POLL MEANS YOU LOVE TRANS PEOPLE TOO 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[buried-in-stardust]

Making Huizhou inksticks (徽墨), famous for its high quality.

Notes:

The characters OP pressed into the inksticks are 山白, OP's username

The "internal heat" referred to in the video is a term in Traditional Chinese medicine referring to a cause of inflammation, swelling, twitching, etc.

[eng by me]

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[jcmarchi]

Implantable sensor could lead to timelier Crohn’s treatment - Technology Org

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Implantable sensor could lead to timelier Crohn’s treatment - Technology Org

A team of Northwestern University scientists has developed the first wireless, implantable temperature sensor to detect inflammatory flareups in patients with Crohn’s disease. The approach offers long-term, real-time monitoring and could enable clinicians to act earlier to prevent or limit the permanent damage caused by inflammatory episodes.

The miniaturized implantable temperature sensor is small enough to fit on top of a U.S. dime.

More than 1 million Americans have Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects the intestines, causes digestive issues and can lead to weight loss, malnutrition and other complications. People with mild cases are treated with oral medications, but these drugs typically fail over time, requiring approximately 70 percent of Crohn’s patients to undergo at least one surgery to remove portions of damaged intestines.

Because heat is indicative of inflammation, the Northwestern scientists tested whether a temperature sensor resting gently against the intestines of mice with Crohn’s disease could provide real-time insight into the disease’s progression and detect episodic flareups. Sure enough, they accomplished both goals in their research, published in the Nature Biomedical Engineering journal.

Arun Sharma, whose group led the animal testing, said clinicians currently do not have a way to quickly detect inflammatory events. Some go unnoticed by patients until the problem becomes so severe that it requires invasive surgery.

“The magnitude of the flareup can be measured regarding the heat signature,” said Sharma, co-corresponding author on the paper and a research associate professor of urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and of biomedical engineering at McCormick School of Engineering. “Is it so extensive that it will cause tissue damage over time?

“This could be potentially prevented if a clinician has this information readily at hand and can determine what type of therapy can be given to that person at that moment in time, rather than waiting weeks to get a blood analysis, tissue biopsy or fecal analysis. In the meantime, you’re losing valuable minutes regarding tissue damage with this inflammatory event.”

Sharma said this strategy of measuring temperature fluctuations could also be useful for patients with ulcerative colitis, another inflammatory bowel disease, or any condition with a prolonged inflammatory response. In their study, the researchers used the wireless sensors to track temperature fluctuations for nearly four months continuously.

Bioelectronics pioneer John Rogers, whose group led the device development, recently published another paper describing an ultrathin, soft implant that measures temperature and perfusion changes as a way to monitor the health of transplanted organs. Once again, the relationship between heat and inflammation was key, as excess inflammation around the transplanted organ can offer an early warning sign that the patient’s immune system is rejecting the new organ.

“To address Crohn’s disease, we developed an ultraminiaturized, precision temperature sensor with wireless communication capability,” said Rogers, co-corresponding author on the paper. “This tiny, soft device takes the form of a smooth, round capsule that rests within the GI system, without affecting natural physiological processes for long-term recordings. The data show some very unique signatures, in the form of perturbations to natural circadian cycles, known as ultradian rhythms, as early indications of inflammatory responses.”

Surabhi Madhvapathy, co-first author from the Rogers group who led the sensor engineering, said the scientists discovered that the ultradian temperature rhythms correlate to cyclic variations in stress levels and inflammatory markers in the blood.

“In addition to the short-term variations, we learned over the span of weeks to months, that the average temperature of the intestines decreases,” Madhvapathy said. “This decrease was indicative of the worsening tissue quality over time.”

Following these successful results in mice, the researchers plan to assess the sensor capabilities in human tissues that recreate the inflammatory gut conditions found in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Source: Northwestern University

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[madlori]

My ankle journey

I am sharing this with all you good people on the dash because I am so fucking mad it took so long for me to learn it and if I can spare one (1) person the agony it will be worth it.

So for like...oh, 8 or 9 months, I've been struggling with pain/inflammation/tendinitis in my left Achilles tendon. I don't know what caused it. It just started up (welcome to middle age, this shit happens). It wasn't severe enough to be debilitating, but it was annoying and limiting. It was also intermittent, in that some days it would be very painful and other days hardly at all. The kind of shoe I was wearing affected it a lot.

Now, I have bone spurs on both heels (it's just a thing that happens as you get older sometimes). I'm also aware that heel pain is usually the result of tight calf muscles that pull and irritate the tendon. I tried stretching that calf muscle. You know the stretch, this bitch right here:

I did it all the time. I also iced the ankle after walking for awhile, hoping to avoid inflammation. Results were...unsatisfying.

I went to:

A chiropractor

A podiatrist

A physical therapist

A bodywork coach

They all gave me some variation on the "strengthen your calf muscle, stretch your calf muscle" advice. I continued doing this without results.

I was getting frustrated, and a little afraid that this was just my life now. Finally, I thought...maybe some targeted massage might help. I asked for rec on a local FB site and was pointed to a woman who specializes in therapeutic massage including cupping, etc.

I went to her a week ago.

She spent over half our first session working on my left lower leg. Within about 10 minutes of making my eyes water, she uttered the sentence I did not know I had been waiting to hear:

"Oh, it's your soleus."

Excuse me, what?

"It's your soleus that's the culprit. It's all tied up and stiff." She started digging into it and I felt literal sparks run up my leg as she released adhesions and got the muscle moving a little. When she finally put the leg down, it felt like it was on fire with all the blood rushing into it.

She said, "You'll need to stretch your soleus. It'll clear up, but it'll take a bit of time - tendons take ages to heal."

But I HAVE been stretching.

"No, you haven't. The usual straight-leg calf stretch only stretches the gastrocnemius, that's the big belly muscle in your calf. That's not your problem. That stretch doesn't stretch the soleus. Don't worry, I'll show you how to stretch it."

My mind is spinning.

So here are the muscles in question:

The gastroc (as the pros call it) just attaches down the back but the soleus runs underneath it from the knee around the side to the heel. The lower part above the ankle is where it typically gets tight and forms adhesions.

To stretch it, you do the same calf thing where you put your foot back and press your heel to the ground, but you have to do it with your KNEE BENT:

The bent knee keeps the gastroc from engaging. It's one of those selfish muscles (like traps) - if you give it an inch, it'll just take over and prevent other muscles from working or stretching. There are other ways to stretch the soleus but this is the easiest and you can literally do it anywhere. I've been doing it while standing and waiting for things (the elevator to come, the toast to toast). You just put the heel back and bend the knee. It's kind of like curtseying.

The minute I did this stretch, I could FEEL where it was pulling on my tendon. I knew that THIS had been the problem.

The massage therapist also told me to stop icing my heel. She said icing is for an acute injury, but a more chronic aggravation needs heat, to increase blood flow for healing. She recommended elevation with heat every day (I've been doing it in bed during "phone before bed" time).

I have been doing the soleus stretch at least half a dozen times a day for almost a week, and the ankle is at least 70% better. It is still a little tight and tender, but the improvement is significant. I think a few more weeks will have it feeling normal.

I am...blown away by this. This massage therapist was able to pinpoint an issue in only a few minutes that eluded all the other professionals I saw. I can't wait to go back to her and have her solve all my other problems, tbh.

[bfstkb]

Why is cold beneficial?

Cold therapy is very important when recovering from a soft tissue injury, especially during the beginning stages of recovery. Cold therapy works to reduce inflammation, swelling, and pain. When dealing with a foot injury, it’s important to use cold all throughout your recovery. When we walk, it puts pressure onto the foot and any injuries there. Cold will help reduce pain and inflammation that may be aggravated just from being on your feet during the day. The ColdCure by King Brand provides the most superior cold therapy available, and is designed to conform to the area that you treat.

What does using heat do?

It is a common misconception that heat leads to healing. In fact, heat can provide some pain relief, but it does not do anything to help you heal. Heat draws blood to the surface of the skin, which can actually contribute to inflammation. If you use heat, it’s best to use it for a shorter amount of time; ten minutes is a good place to start. If you want the pain relief that comes with warmth, you should use the BFST – it produces electromagnetic energy, and soothing warmth. This electromagnetic energy works to stimulate healthy blood flow and actually heal the soft tissue.

Should I alternate heat and cold?

There is no benefit to alternating heat and cold – in fact, by alternating heat and cold, the positive benefits of both of those treatments are basically negated. It’s best to start with using cold therapy to bring down inflammation, then allow your skin time to warm back up to body temperature. Once your skin is no longer cold, try applying the BFST! The pain relief this medical device provides lasts for four hours following each twenty minute treatment. It’s so much more effective than a heating pad, and only stimulates healthy blood flow to the area that you treat.

[lullabiestoparalyze]

one of the things i miss the most during cool and cold weather is being cozy. i miss wearing big fuzzy sweaters and snuggling under my huge comforter and wearing flannel pajamas. autumn and winter have lost a lot of the coziness of the season for me just because i can't do these things anymore without cooking myself alive and it's oddly heartbreaking.

[livingwellnessblog]

Differential Diagnosis | Pattern Of Disharmonies in Diverticulitis

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