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bursitis
Invite Health Podcast, Episode hosted by Jerry Hickey. Ph
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Bursitis is a painful condition near your joints. It has to do with these small, squishy, fluid-filled sacs called bursa. Bursa cushion the bones, tendons, muscles and skin near your joints. This prevents rubbing between your bones, tendons, muscles and skin. When they’re injured or they’re overused, like if you’re playing tennis and you have that repetitive tough motion, the bursa can collect extra fluid because they got inflamed. Over time, their walls may thicken and it can be quite painful and disruptive for your lifestyle. When the sacs get inflamed around your joints, they may feel stiff and they can hurt to move the joint in a normal way. It’s linked to certain injuries and diseases, however the cause of your case may be unclear.
What causes Bursitis?
The most common causes of bursitis are repetitive motions or positions that put pressure on the bursa around the joints, like throwing a baseball, lifting something over your head repeatedly, painting your ceiling, leaning on your elbows for a long time and extensive kneeling. Sports that repeat the same motion are a common cause, like tennis. It could also be caused by a bacterial infection. That’s nasty and you really have to see a doctor. Diabetes is connected to an increased risk and so is the blood issue gout, where you build up uric acid crystals in your blood. Arthritis, especially rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic arthritis, injury from a fall and also walking style may be connected. If you have an uneven gait, like if one leg is shorter than the other, this may contribute to bursitis.
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Symptoms vary, depending on where the bursitis is affecting you. You might feel achy and stiff at the joint. It’ll hurt more when you move it or press on it. It’ll look swollen and red. If it hurts directly around the joint when you move or bend it, it could be a sign of acute bursitis. That’s bursitis that comes on fairly rapidly. Pain levels vary according to the type of bursitis.
Tune into the full podcast episode to learn more about the various symptoms and types of bursitis.
Treatment of Bursitis
There are lifestyle changes that can protect your bursa. First of all, you have to avoid motions that are going to cause pain, because pain is a warning from the body that something’s wrong. If you’re using your knees, use pads or cushions to protect your knees or your butt if you sit or kneel a lot. Get socks that are highly insulated, like the socks they use for running or tennis, because that gives you extra cushioning. You can put cushions in your shoes. You can get pads to protect your elbows so that fluid doesn’t build up again.†
You can use ice or heat. Ice can help get rid of the pain. Never ice for more than 22 minutes because then it becomes negative. This is especially for areas closer to the surface of the skin like the kneecap, heel and elbow. For deep bursitis in your shoulder, inner knee or hip, heat might work better. Apply the ice to reduce the swelling for the first 48 hours, especially after symptoms occur and, once again, no more than 22 minutes at a shot. Apply dry or moist heat, such as a heating pad, or you can take a warm bath.†
Maintain a healthy weight. Being overweight really places a lot more pressure and stress on your joints. Every pound puts two pounds of pressure on your knee joint when you’re walking and it’s worse when you’re running. If you’re 50 pounds overweight, with every step, you’re putting an extra 100 pounds of pressure on your knees. The best remedy if you have arthritis in your knees is losing weight, but if you have bursitis in your legs, you also want to lose that extra weight.†
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Exercise strengthens your muscles and helps protect your affected joint. Warming up and stretching before stretching, as well as physical therapy, are very important. Physical therapy will help strengthen the muscles and tissues around the affected joint and help prevent future damage.†
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Learn more about methods for treating bursitis by listening to the full podcast episode.
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aged garlic
Invite Health Podcast, Episode hosted by Amanda Williams, MPH.
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Most of us have used the term “thinking outside the box” at some point in time in our lives. One thing that I like to think about is thinking outside of the kitchen and there’s a reason why. There are so many wonderful things that we have in our food on a regular basis that can be so helpful for our overall health, so we have to think about some of the common nutrients that we’re exposed to. We can think about things like onion and garlic, for example. The garlic is predominantly what I want to focus in on today. We know that garlic not only has many well-studied cardiovascular benefits to it, but it goes well beyond that. I want to talk all about the many benefits of garlic, aged garlic in particular. When we think about supplementation, we want to make sure that the form of garlic we are using is the aged garlic type.†
What is garlic?
Most of us know garlic and it definitely has a very strong and familiar scent to it. Most people know if someone has had a good amount of garlic in a meal or you walk into your house and if someone is preparing a meal with a lot of garlic, it has a very profound smell to it.
Garlic itself is a perennial that actually belongs to the onion family. The flavors that come from the garlic are very, very powerful, which is why when you’re cooking with garlic, usually a little bit goes a long way. There are many different types of garlic. Most of us just think of the traditional garlic that we utilize, which is the hardneck garlic. We have to recognize that all of the powerful constituents that are found within the garlic is what really yields all of these superior health benefits.†
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Learn more about the history of garlic by tuning into the full podcast episode.
We also have to look at the chemicals and constituents that are in garlic. We know that allicin is a very powerful chemical constituent that is derived from the garlic itself. What’s really quite interesting is that it is the allicin that produces that very powerful and unique scent. We know that there’s a high count of sulfur compounds in garlic and this is what’s responsible for its scent and taste, as well as those beneficial effects. It’s been studied across the spectrum when it comes to health.†
Garlic outside the kitchen
Initially, people would look at garlic in terms of its cardiovascular benefits and we certainly know that there are many of those. It offers broad cardioprotective effects, to such a degree that there was a really important study that came out in the Journal of Nutrition about four or five years ago. This was done via the UCLA Medical Center, where they were showing the impact of aged garlic extract, so now we’re talking about supplementation as opposed to the food. This means that we’re taking those really active constituents and putting them into a capsulated form. You’re getting a major power punch of those constituents. In this study, they were able to show that aged garlic could reduce dangerous plaque buildup within the arteries. This is a really great thing.†
At UCLA, they completed the four different randomized studies through which they looked at the progression of atherosclerosis and heart disease and looking at the aged garlic and seeing that it had this ability to actually reverse those different stages of heart disease. We have seen studies where they assess the C-reactive protein, which indicates levels of chronic inflammation. We have seen how beneficial aged garlic can be, even with supporting cholesterol levels.†
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A study published in 2019 by the Experimental Biology Journal talked about how garlic could reduce aging-related memory problems. In this particular study that was conducted out of the University of Louisville, they were looking at that sulfide compound within the allicin. The interesting finding within the study was the correlation between the gut microbiome. Remember, a healthy gut means a healthy mind. The researchers were able to see how the garlic itself helped to maintain that healthy gut microbiome, those microorganisms that are in the intestines that are there to keep us healthy and to maintain that proper communication between the gut and the brain. The gut contains trillions of these microorganisms. They were able to show just how the garlic itself can work in a way to enhance that communication between the two, and in doing that, they were able to show an improvement in memory.†
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