When the body has experienced trauma or injury, it immediately reacts by having an immune response in which part of the body can become reddened, swollen, hot, and often painful, especially as a reaction to injury. It can swell as an army of beneficial white blood cells flow in to fight and help you heal. You may experience pain and tenderness, warmth at the site and especially stiffness. This is the body’s way of protecting itself as by causing loss of mobility it ‘forces’ you to not use that joint or area.
Often Bowen Therapy will help enormously as the small and gentle moves associated with this therapy will ‘tell’ the body that the emergency is over and to return to a more balance and preferred state of relaxed and normal motion. The sooner you receive Bowen after an accident, surgery, or trauma of almost any kind, the quicker your body will respond, and inflammation will be reduced.
Far better and easier than resorting to drugs, particularly corticosteroids which are known to cause serious side-effects.
When it’s simply a bacterial or viral infection, then the body’s immune system fights it and you might experience a temperature, sore throat, runny nose, etc. There is more about what you can do with this type of inflammation referred to in the page on Mineral Therapy.
