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In-Depth Bursitis Information

Bursitis Information

Bursitis Information

Answers to Questions about
Bursitis


  • What is Bursitis?
  • What Causes Bursitis?
  • How Long Does a Bursitis Last?
  • What is in a Bursa?
  • What can I do now?

What is Bursitis? What Causes it? Here's a Summary:


Bursitis is a sign of another nearby injury!

Bursae Information

Bursitis is a term that is used to describe a build up of fluid in a small sac of the body called a bursa. Typically, people notice pain and a lump in or around their joint. For some people, the lump isn't noticeable, just the pain. Others notice more lump and little pain. Both situations are Bursitis.


Bursas are designed to protect your body tissue and they are intended to swell when your body detects injury in the area, close to the bursa, for an extended period of time.


A Bursa is a small sac of fluid in your body that is in place to stop friction between moving parts of your body. It also protects the parts from banging together and causing damage. The bursa provides both a cushion for parts of your body bumping against each other and a slippery surface for parts of your body sliding against each other.


Anatomy Bursa and Surrounding Tissue

There are a few types, but they all have the same purpose: to protect your bodily tissue. A Subcutaneous bursa protects your skin from rubbing and bumping against bone. A Submuscular bursa protects your muscles from rubbing and bumping on bones. And a Subtendinous bursa protects your ligaments and tendons from rubbing and bumping against bones. That's typically the case, but you have a few more just protecting one tissue from another tissue in high wear-and-tear areas too. Also, most people have similar bursae in similar locations but some people have a few extra or a few less, it's just a matter of your your body developed long ago. So, no matter the type or location, these slippery little fluid filled sacs are all protecting your body from wear and tear.


Knee Bursae Information 2

Most of these bursa sacs aren't round normally, they're usually quite flat and elongated, more like pillows. They're filled with a fluid called 'synovial fluid'. When it's in the bursa, the fluid fills the pillow to help with cushioning. The synovial fluid can also be released into the joint to provide additional lubrication. Synovial fluid, when released from the bursa, has other health benefits to the tissue in your joint as well.


When your body detects some kind of damage to nearby tissue, part of its defence response is to produce more synovial fluid. This makes the bursa a bit bigger for better cushioning, and the joint gets better lubrication and an improved environment for healing.


If your injury persists for a long time, and your body keeps producing more and more synovial fluid, your bursa can puff up from a flat pillow to a ball and hurt under the stress. That's bursitis. 'Burs' for 'bursa' and 'itis' means swelling in medical terminology.


Hip Bursitis Synovial Capsule

We haven't labeled them all in the pictures shown, because the exact name and location isn't that important. What is important is that you realize that the body is very complex. There are a ton of bursas (bursas and bursae are the same thing, plural for bursa) in your body. As mentioned, from person to person, the size and location of a bursa can vary, so everyone's situation is always unique. The key thing to note is that bursitis is not the injury itself, it is a condition that comes from having an injury close to that bursa that hasn't healed for a long time.



A Little More Detail on Your Joint Anatomy

A Bursa is a very important element of your body health. The surface is both incredibly tough and incredibly slippery. Your body grows them between the parts of your body that would rub on each other when you move. Your bones are tied in place to connecting bones in your body with ropes in your body called ligaments. Your muscles are tied to your bones with ropes called tendons. Where two bones might rub on each other during motion, your body pads the ends of the ones with padding called cartilage.


Elbow Bursitis Synovial Capsule

As your body bends, the skin and fat and muscle and bones and tendons move too. In areas where they would rub against each other and wear each other down, your body often grows a bursa that acts like a water balloon between the parts. As you move, the parts slide easily over the slippery surface of the bursa. As your parts push and squeeze against each other the bursa squishes and pads the parts so they don't get injured.


The fluid inside every bursa is called 'synovial fluid'. Synovial fluid has many roles too. First, it is the cushion in the water balloon. Second it is a lubricant, like oil, that helps your body tissues be more slippery against each other. Third, Synovial Fluid also takes the place of blood in a lot of your joints.


Knee Bursa and Surrounding Tissue

A lot of the spots in your joints are too harsh of an environment for the delicate tissue that makes up your blood flow system. But where things are harsh, those cells still need nutrition and cleaning and oxygen and the things that blood supplies to the rest of your body. So, in the toughest environments, in the joints with the most pressure, your body creates something like a super-bursa between the bones called a 'synovial cavity'. In a synovial cavity there can be bone and tendon and other tissue that make up the joint and they are surrounded by a sea of synovial fluid. There's no blood in a synovial joint, that role is instead performed by the synovial fluid which is made for the harsh environment. Through the synovial membrane, the blood from the outside exchanges all this stuff with the synovial fluid inside the bursa / cavity for transport to rest of your joint. The synovial fluid is the lifeblood of various joints in your knees, elbows, wrists, hips and shoulders.


These super-bursae, the synovial joints, are also linked to local regular bursas in the joint. When there is long lasting repetitive damage taking place to tissue inside the synovial cavity, the attached bursa will often swell. That's another cause of bursitis.




What is Bursitis and What Causes it?

When you have bursitis, it is because one of your bursae is getting over filled with synovial fluid. Your body is producing it for a good reason. Your body has detected that some of the tissue near the bursa or inside a synovial joint is injured. It is typically some of the other tissue in your joint, as it is seldom the bursa itself that is damaged. As mentioned, your body produces synovial fluid to keep your body healthy. It is trying to heal an injury and you produce synovial fluid to help it heal and keep the injury protected.


In very rare circumstances, bursitis can happen because the bursa itself is sick or damaged. That is incredibly rare though. When that is the case, it is usually due to some kind of infection and it will show up in a blood test as an elevated white blood-cell count. Your doctor will have done that routine test from the beginning and, if it is the case, the solution will just be anti-biotics. But again, that is a very rare chance. Most of the time, bursitis is because you've damaged your joint in some way and as fast as it heals you are doing something to reinjure it again and again.


Bursitis - your swollen bursa - is really a secondary reaction to another underlying injury. Typically, this happens when you've had an injury for a long time and it hasn't been able to heal properly. Perhaps you've damaged a ligament or tendon, or some cartilage, and as fast as it heals, your level of activity keeps reinjuring it. The injury may be small enough that you haven't noticed it as pain in regular life - or maybe you have a bit from time to time. When this cycle of reinjury continues for a long time, your body produces more and more synovial fluid until finally the bursa starts to swell. As your bursa swells, you feel more pain. And at this point your body has achieved its goal of telling you that it is injured and needs a break through signals of pain!


What is the Underlying Injury Causing the Problem?


What is the underlying injury that is causing you to have Bursitis? Most people with bursitis don't realize their body is actually injured. That's why they are looking for information on bursitis, instead of the real problem in their body. This is very common.


The most common underlying injury is a small tendon tear. The second most common underlying injury is a small cartilage tear. Cartilage is a piece of very tough tissue that your body grows on the ends of two bones that might bang together during normal activity. Think of where your leg bones meet at your knees, or your arm bones meet at your elbows, or your bones in your ankles. If those bones get pushed together while the joint is trying to flex, you don't want the bones wearing on each other. Your body grows cartilage on the ends of your bones as bump pads and wear pads to protect the ends of your bones. (In your knee the cartilage has a special name called the 'meniscus'.) Cartilage is a rubbing pad, a protector, between your body bones so the bones don't actually rub on each other. You may have heard the term 'bone on bone'. Bone on bone is not a good thing which is why there is always cartilage between bones.


What causes Bursitis

Bones are separated where they would 'touch' by cartilage, and often nearby there is a bursa that is keeping the cartilage nicely lubricated with a steady supply of synovial fluid. Sometimes the cartilage get's a bit of a tear in it. Sometimes it just gets a bit frayed on the outsides. When the tear is significant you feel it in your body long before body bursitis develops. When the cartilage damage is minor though, you may not feel it. Your body produces more synovial fluid to help do all those good things for your cartilage that we discuss above. If your cartilage heals you never know there was a problem. But if your cartilage doesn't heal (typically because of small repetitive reinjury), your synovial fluid can build up to a point where a swollen bursa develops.


More often than it being cartilage damage (except in the knees), the damage that leads to bursitis is usually to a tendon or ligament in the area. When it is ligament or tendon, it's the same bodily response, with more synovial fluid production and swelling of the bursa if the condition persists.


So, a one time injury that doesn't get a chance to heal is a common cause of bursitis. When you are injured, it's important to let the tissue heal before resuming normal activity.


Avoid This Big Mistake #1!


Pain killers are often used to mask pain from injuries. Stopping the pain is nice, but blocking the pain often causes people to do more than their injury can handle and results in constant reinjury. If you have bursitis, an important first step is to not use pain relievers like Tylenol or numbing creams during the day. Pain killers during the day are likely to contribute to reinjury and your condition getting worse. You can call us for more information on how to properly use medications in the treatment of bursitis.

Osteoarthritis and Bursitis

What causes Knee Arthritis

Another common cause of bursitis is Osteoarthritis. People often don't realize there are two kinds of Arthritis: Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is the bad one because it's a disease-like condition and it is a problem that doesn't go away. But most arthritis is actually osteoarthritis which is a problem coming from overuse - overactivity in a joint. Osteoarthritis can go away if you let up on the activity and let the joint heal. Often, active people develop osteoarthritis in their joints that they don't even realize is there. And the body's response to osteoarthritis is, again, to start producing synovial fluid to help the joint heal. When it is mild enough that you don't notice it, but it persists for a long time, then that can cause body bursitis to develop.


RUNNING

We want to be clear here: Overactivity that causes osteoarthritis is when you do something excessively strenuous over and over. If the activity is light, you can do it endlessly and never have to worry about developing arthritis. If the activity is light, the bursa and synovial fluid are always in place, and the joint moves freely, without damage. Walking, running, lifting medium to light weights repeatedly, constant bending of the body - these are all considered light activity. Even a whole lot of light repetitive activity is not a concern for a healthy joint. Your body is designed to do that type of activity repeatedly.


If the activity is heavy though, if you are putting a lot of pressure on the joint during the motion, tissue can rub that shouldn't. Bones can push together or ligaments and tendons can get squeezed to the point the synovial fluid gets squeezed out of the way and the cartilage touch each other. If it happens occasionally, that's not a problem. The bursae and cartilage are there for that purpose, to be a bumper and wear pad during times of heavy strain. But there's a limit when it comes to heavy activity.


Heavy Repetitive Exercise

If you do a heavy load activity over and over and over again so that the parts of your body are constantly bumping and grinding on each other, then it is possible they get worn down over time faster than they can regenerate. When that is the case, a doctor will tell you the joint has developed osteoarthritis.


Osteoarthritis can go away if you let up on the activity and let the joint heal. Often, active people develop osteoarthritis in their joints that they don't even realize is there. And the body's response to osteoarthritis is, again, to start producing synovial fluid to help the joint heal. When it is mild enough that you don't notice it, but if it persists for a long time, then that can cause Bursitis to develop.


Again, it's worth noting that if you are doing mild repetitive activity, you are not likely to sustain any injury no matter how much you do it. If the cartilage on the bones is not being pushed hard enough to bump and rub a lot, then your joint can do that activity forever. If the tendons and ligaments are not being squeezed excessively during repetitive motion then you will be fine. So don't get confused by the terms 'overuse injury' and 'repetitive strain injury'. That sort of injury only occurs if the excessive activity is also excessively strenuous on the joint.


Avoid This Big Mistake #2!


Never wear compression bandages or straps or tight elastic products around your joints during times of repeated activity. That is a recipe for strain on your body that results in tissue damage and eventually arthritis and/or bursitis. Think about it: Your body put a cushion between your tissue and the bone to protect it against wear and tear. Putting more pressure on that tissue as it rubs against the bone is only going to make the wear and tear worse. Bands and Straps during activity defeat the protective abilities of your bursa. Don't make this mistake. Yes, companies make compression sleeves and compression bands and sell them to make money. But these are not aids, they are hazards and are only likely to injure the person wearing them. Bands and straps may look cool, but they are definitely compromising your body health if you wear them during activity.




Isometric Strain Injury


Your body is designed to be in constant motion. That motion contributes to synovial circulation and prevents the parts of your joints from getting squeezed for too long. Your blood has your heart to pump it through your body, but synovial fluid only moves through your joints as a result of motion. You don't need to be excessive though, and the motion does not need to be under heavy weight. If you have any pain at all when you are moving, then you are doing something you should not be doing. Heed the pain. Move, but heed the pain.


Isometric Knee Strain

People don't realize, you can actually hurt your body by 'doing nothing'. Constant pressure on a body part when it is not moving can lead to injuries called Isometric Strain Injury. If you are inactive for an extended period of time, and your body is being held in a position where part of it is being squeezed to much and too long, you may be hurting yourself.


You have a synovial fluid and bursa buffer between the parts in your body to protect them most of the time. When you move, the synovial fluid is squeezed from between the parts into areas between the bones called synovial cavities. The synovial fluid moves back when the squeeze is released, over and over again. It's designed to work that way. That gentle flow in and out of the bursa to other parts of your body acts as circulation for the synovial fluid to do the work of the blood that isn't there.


Legs Crossed Chair

Isometric Strain may be hurting your body when you aren't moving at all. This kind of injury happens when you keep your body locked in a certain position for a long period of time. It may be locked straight, or bent, or maybe with a twist. But, if you keep your body pressed into any one position for an extended period of time, that tissue being squeezed can get damaged. Remember the synovial fluid shock absorber? Well, if you keep enough pressure in one place for long enough, the synovial fluid gets pushed out of place until there's nothing between the different tissues. Then, if you move suddenly, maybe not even with a lot of effort, a tear is much more likely.


Legs Crossed Desk

Isometric Strain happens more often than you realize. It's what happens to people who stand in one place for a long time with one or both knees 'locked'. Or think about crossing your legs for a long time when sitting - that torque on your body is severe. Some people cross their ankles when they sleep. Doing so causes the body of the top leg to hyper-extend for hours possibly, constantly pressing on one part of the knee joint.


Elbows and wrists often experience isometric strain when we sleep. Do you lie with your wrist or elbow bent tight and under your head or body as you sleep? Maybe you sit for hours each day in front of your computer with your head resting on your wrist. Lying on your side propped up on one elbow as your read or watch TV can put unusual compressive strain on your shoulder joint.


Elbow Strain Sleeping

There are things that we do, that maybe you haven't thought about that cause isometric strain in different parts of your body. If you are unsure what caused your injury, think about this possibility as well. If this is the culprit then you may need to correct that habit, or you risk causing the injury over and over again. You will need to stop it for some time to at least let your body heal.


This goes for your tendons and ligaments, bones, cartilage and nerves and the other tissue in your joints. If they get squeezed under even modest pressure for a very long time, they can get damaged.


Elbow Isometric Strain

With Isometric Strain, you usually don't notice it when you're actually doing the damage. This makes it hard to figure out, because you end up feeling the pain during other times of activity.

It is quite possible that the activity you are doing when you feel the pain isn't the root cause of the problem. But the pain is an indication that your situation is bad enough that the painful activity may start to make your condition worse. By this point, all sorts of activity may start to make your situation worse. The good news is, that if you correct the underlying cause and treat the condition so it heals, you may be able to resume your favorite activity and never have to worry about developing bursitis again.



There are other much less common inner body injuries that can result in bursitis. Suffice it to say that if some part of a joint has an injury that you don't know about, and your body is trying to resolve it for a long time, bursitis can result.




Diagnosing Bursitis - It's Valuable to get Tests


So often people go to their GP complaining about pain and swelling in the body and the doctor says, "it's bursitis". They may call it by bursitis of that particular part, but it's all the same issue to you. In the vast majority of cases, that is likely to be an incomplete diagnosis. Bursitis is what happens when an underlying injury goes for an extended time without healing - it's a symptom of an underlying injury. Yes, the bursitis is the cause of your pain, so that's often all the doctor addresses. When they call it bursitis it's because they haven't yet determined what is the underlying issue.


As discussed, there are many body issues that can show up as pain and swelling. There could be ligament damage or a torn tendon, or perhaps tendonitis. There could be bone spurs. You might have rheumatoid arthritis or be feeling osteoarthritis without bursitis being part of it. There could be infection or gout. It may be something more serious. Whatever the case, declaring it 'Bursitis' is just the doctor saying you have a symptom.


If it has been nagging you, you want to know the underlying cause so you can address the issue most effectively. An X-Ray or an MRI, or perhaps an Ultrasound will provide further insight, so the real issue can be properly diagnosed. If you know what part of your body is injured and in what way, it will give you valuable insight into what you can do to recover properly and completely.



How Long Does Bursitis Last?


Bursitis is going to last until your body successfully heals the underlying injury. By the time that swelling develops to the point that you notice it, you have probably had the injury for several months already. There's no doubt about it, something in your lifestyle is causing your injury to persist - your body can't heal the problem as fast as it's getting reinjured. So, it is unlikely that it will just go away, unless you change something about your activity.


Some people get to this point and realize what may be the root cause. Perhaps it was an increase in activity level or a new activity. Perhaps it was that you have always maintained a fairly high activity level, but as you age or gain weight (we almost all do a bit with age), maybe your body can't keep up as well. In many, many cases, you did something once that caused you to have an injury in the moment, and it didn't have a chance to heal, and the injury has persisted ever since. That's the best scenario, because if that's the case, if you can allow your body to heal and get past that injury, you are likely to be able to return to the same activity level as before and never have the problem again. No matter what the cause, though, you have an underlying injury and you need to let it heal. If you heal your injury, regardless of the reason it started in the first place, your bursitis will go away and you will likely be able to resume normal life. That is, if this whole ordeal is dealt with properly...


What Can You Do About Bursitis?

When you get a diagnosis of 'bursitis', almost always, the bursitis is the second thing that is wrong with you. In very rare circumstances your bursitis might just be an infected bursa and, if your doctor suspects that, they will do bloodwork. Then, if it's infection, they will prescribe antibiotics. Most of the time though the bursitis only occurs because of the underlying injury that hasn't been able to heal.


A lot of the time your doctor won't do any more tests and will just tell you to go home and rest. That's because if you rest your body enough, the underlying issue will go away and then so will the bursitis. There's no medicine to cure bursitis, so there's nothing more the doctor can do. If your bursitis persists for a long time, your doctor may send you for an MRI or X-Ray to get a better look. Regardless of whether the underlying issue is tendon or ligament or cartilage (maybe your meniscus), rest is what is really required. As long as that inner injury doesn't heal, the problem will persist.


Avoid This Big Mistake #3!

Don't get cortisone shots. Some doctors will offer a cortisone shot for persistent bursitis. The plus of cortisone is that it can add a bit of lubrication. It can also reduce the swelling, but that's not actually a good thing because the bursa is swollen to help protect an underlying injury. Reducing the protection does not help it go away. Cortisone can also relieve the pain. But again, the pain is there to warn you that you are injured and to encourage you to avoid activity that will make your condition worse. Cortisone masking the pain is likely to enable you to do activities that further advance the underlying injury. Cortisone shots often lead to further complications down the road and potentially a more serious condition. Yes, it can relieve short term pain, but it often comes at a cost later on.


What Else Not to do when you have a Bursitis


Treatment Without Drugs

The internet is full of bad advice about treating your bursitis. Here's a short list though: It's not your shoes. Draining it doesn't solve the underlying problem. Anti-inflammatories don't help - it's not that kind of swelling. Pain killers probably make it worse. Driving through the pain will just make it worse.



What You Should do when you have Bursitis


You Should Rest

For a little while - not forever - it is really helpful to give your body a rest. In many cases, resting your body for a few weeks will give it time to heal to a point that your body gets ahead of the healing / reinjury cycle. It's important to realize that once the pain and swelling go away, your underlying injury may not be healed completely, so take it easy and go back to regular life gradually once the pain and swelling are gone. If you want to be more proactive about healing the problem, the quick links to body parts shown in the navigation panel also give specific treatment guidance for bursitis in that area.



Rest & Use Conservative Treatments


Crutches may help you rest your knee

If you want your Bursitis to go away as quickly as possible, you need to rest the affected body part. Avoid any physical activities that could cause further injury to your joint. If your Bursitis developed from a body injury or condition, do your best to avoid the activity that caused this body injury or condition. If your bursitis is in the hip, knee or ankle, consider using crutches to keep the weight off your injured body part and avoid re-injury.


Do regular ColdCure® treatments to control the pain and swelling. The compression during each treatment helps gently move the synovial fluid back into your synovial cavity.


You can also focus on healing your underlying body injury with regular BFST® treatments. The combination of ColdCure and BFST treatments will work very effectively to finally get rid of your Bursitis as quickly as possible.


Around the 3 week mark you can start doing some light stretching and strengthening exercises. Slowly work your way back to your regular level of activity. Continue doing BFST® treatments long after the pain and lump disappear to maintain the healing you've done. Do a ColdCure® treatment if you experience any flare-ups of pain and swelling and after any significant activity.


Do you need to have some activity because of work or life demands? Taping your injury can go a long way to stopping the aggravation that makes your injury persist. Professional athletes are always taped for a reason, because it works. They tape when they are going to be active to stop prior injuries from getting worse or returning.



Surgery Should Be a Last Resort


Bursitis Surgery

You don't have to undergo surgery in order to get rid of your issue. You can get rid of your bursitis and the underlying injury with conservative treatments. However, it's possible that your underlying body condition or injury requires surgery. These are very rare cases.


Cartilage surgery usually involves the removal of part of the cartilage and that is not what you want. That's a path to an eventual full body part replacement, it's just a temporary fix. If the doctor says it's meniscus related, avoid surgery at all costs. You want to do everything you can to let your meniscus heal on its own.


Only in rare cases is it required for the body bursa to be drained or removed. If it's an option, you want to keep the synovial fluid and just move it back into your body joint where it belongs, where it can help. In order to remove a body bursa, arthroscopic surgery must be performed. This is typically only done in cases where the bursitis is disease related and keeps coming back. Your body will miss that bursa when it's gone.


If surgery is your only option, make sure your post-surgery recovery goes as smoothly as possible by using BFST and ColdCure. Use a ColdCure® Wrap to reduce the inflammation and relieve the pain for the first few days following surgery. Once the inflammation has gone down, promote blood flow to the injured area using a BFST® Wrap. This will improve your circulation and help you heal faster.


There is also a possibility that the bursa could rupture, causing fluid to move into the surrounding tissue and result in further swelling and pain in the area. A ruptured cyst isn't great, but it's not the worst situation either. Until the underlying injury is dealt with, in some circumstances, it becomes difficult for the ruptured bursa to heal. You almost certainly want to take up crutches or seriously rest for a period of time after a ruptured bursa so it can reseal itself. You want a functional bursa to keep capturing the synovial fluid and return it back into your joint. Symptoms of a ruptured Bursitis are similar to those of a blood clot, so if you're not certain that your bursa has ruptured, please see your doctor.



Dealing With Pain


Painkillers are BAD, Not Good


Painkillers mask the pain, causing you to continue to stress and injure your joint further. This will only make your condition worse. It is understandable that people need relief from the pain, so if you have to take painkillers, restrict them to times when you are going to be at rest. You can use painkillers to help you sleep. But, if you think Isometric Strain may be happening when you sleep, then painkillers are not a good idea then either. Using them when you are active is a recipe for permanent damage. Your choice of pain killers is important. You can give us a call to discuss which ones are best.


The ColdCure® Wrap is designed to relieve the pain associated with a swollen bursa. This safe and effective pain reliever is also great at bringing down swelling and inflammation. The ColdCure® Wrap is incredibly soothing and provides support and protection for your injured joint. The painkilling element is incredibly powerful and it works instantly - there's no 20 minute wait like with pills.


Treatment Without Drugs

Bursitis can be extremely painful and debilitating. Painkillers such as ASA or acetaminophen are often used to treat the pain but these drugs do nothing to treat the actual condition. In fact, painkillers are known blood thinners and make the bleeding worse for fresh tissue injuries. Cortisone injections are used in extreme cases but these too are intended to only address the pain. They do not promote healing of the injury itself and they put you at a very high risk of further injury.



Blood Flow is Essential for Healing


You don't have to wait for endless months in pain. You can heal much more quickly with the right treatment. For any soft tissue injury, blood flow is the most critical element in rapid recovery. If the injury is in a synovial cavity, blood flow feeds the synovial fluid through the synovial walls and is key to keeping the injury clean and nourished. For injuries outside a synovial cavity, blood flow works directly to accelerate healing of injured tissue, especially when you are at rest. Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy (BFST®) gives your body the blood flow it needs to heal quickly and completely.


BFST® brings extra oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the injured area - a requirement for the body to heal itself. Unfortunately, an injured body at rest often has restricted blood flow, which extends your healing time. With a King Brand® BFST® Wrap, blood flow can be stimulated in the area of injury while you are at rest. You get all the benefits of exercise while your body remains at rest. With improved blood flow, and without strenuous physical activity and the risk of re-injury, you can recover from your body injury at a surprisingly rapid rate.


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Bursitiss plague many people. A body injury can cause Bursitiss to develop. There are many symptoms of Bursitiss caused by body injuries. Treatment for a Bursitis will cause your body pain to improve and allow your underlying body injury to heal. There's no doubt that to heal body injuries quickly you need BFST treatments. ColdCure will help with body pain caused by Bursitiss. You can cure Bursitiss and a body injury with BFST and ColdCure technology. So, if you want to get rid of your Bursitis quickly, you need BFST. If you want to treat a Bursitis you need ColdCure. Bursitis symptoms are associated with an underlying body injury and include body pain and swelling. Some Bursitiss require surgery. This gets rid of the Bursitis but the pain in your body after surgery can be severe. The best Bursitis treatment is BFST. The best Bursitis pain treatment is ColdCure. These wraps are incredible. They feel comfortable. They work.

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