

Why Do I Feel Worse In Morning?
Many patient explain to me how they felt better going to bed and then wake up with strong pain and have a difficult time getting out of bed. Consider this, inflammation is a chemical response that acts like a fluid in the soft tissues of the body. I always thought of red food coloring permeating an area. Think of the soft tissues of the body like a sponge. If you had a dirty sponge and put it into a bucket of water, the dirt would eventually diffuse out of the sponge, but


Inflammation And How To Control It
Inflammation is the body’s response to cell damage. A cell could be a muscle cell, a cell of ligament or tendon, of a nerve, or just a skin cell. No matter what type of cell it is, a cell is like a water balloon. When cell damage occurs, that water balloon bursts. Chemicals inside the cell are released from the cell and permeate the tissue surrounding the cell. Those chemicals cause the local blood vessels, called capillaries, to dilate or get larger, which allows more b