{"id":281,"date":"2023-04-13T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T17:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/?p=281"},"modified":"2023-04-19T17:15:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:15:50","slug":"is-your-joint-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/2023\/04\/13\/is-your-joint-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your joint &#8220;on fire?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-281\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-281-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-281-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-281-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h3>Often patients present with complaints that involve a large amount of inflammation.\u00a0 Inflammation is the result of a body\u2019s chemical reaction to overuse or injury in a particular tissue.<\/h3>\n<p>This may involve joint, muscle, ligament or tendon.\u00a0 Often times athletes and others persist with her activities assuming that the problem will go away.\u00a0 It doesn't always.\u00a0 In fact the \u201cno pain no gain\u201d attitude causes many more problems than it solves.\u00a0 Treatment of such and inflammation often requires relative rest, ice, rehabilitation and gradual progression of activities.\u00a0 Many patients report using occasional over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medication such as Advil or Aleve.\u00a0 This is often unsuccessful in the patients who come to my office.<\/p>\n<p>One helpful analogy is to think of your inflammation as a blazing campfire burning out-of-control.\u00a0 If you had such a campfire would you throw a cup of water on it and walk away??\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 That is the equivalent of taking a small dose of anti-inflammatory medication occasionally. \u00a0To put out such a fire wouldn't it work better to run a hose and keep the water coming for a period of time until the fire was out?\u00a0 This principle applies well to treatment of musculoskeletal pain and inflammation.\u00a0 Consistent application of the proper principles including relative rest, ice, rehabilitation and anti-inflammatory medication often solves the problem.\u00a0 At times prescription medicine is temporarily necessary for this purpose.\u00a0 Occasional treatment and then going right back to what caused the problem doesn't work any better than throwing that small cup of water on the fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often patients present with complaints that involve a large amount of inflammation.\u00a0 Inflammation is the result of a body\u2019s chemical reaction to overuse or injury in a particular tissue. This may involve joint, muscle, ligament or tendon.\u00a0 Often times athletes and others persist with her activities assuming that the problem will go away.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}