What is Bursitis?

June 6, 2003
Elgin Naprapathic Healthcare and Pain Management Clinic
  

Overuse and stress. You may commonly subject your body's joints to these conditions when you're at work and at play. The eventual result of repetitive movements and pressure may be the painful inflammation called bursitis.

You have more than 150 bursae in your body. These tiny, fluid containing sacs lubricate and cushion pressure points between your bones and the tendons and muscles near your joints. They help you move without pain. When they become inflamed, movement or pressure is painful.

Most often bursitis affects the shoulder, elbow or hip joint areas. But you also can have bursitis in your knee, heel and even in the base of your big toe. Bursitis pain usually goes away within a week or so with proper treatment, but recurrent flare-ups are common and frustrating.

For treatment of bursitis call the Elgin Naprapathic Healthcare and Pain Management Clinic and ask to make an appointment with Dr. George G. Stretch at 847-695-4847