How do Magnets Work?
The Inflammatory Process.
Inflammation is the body’s reaction to invasion by an infectious agent, antigen
or even just physical, chemical or traumatic damage. The inflammatory reaction
is one of the body’s oldest defence mechanisms. When damage occurs the body’s
automatic defence system starts the inflammatory process within seconds. Blood
flow is firstly increased at the point of injury, the
blood vessels widen (vasodilate)
to allow oxygen, clotting agents (platelets) and white blood cells to penetrate
the damaged tissues. Over a period of hours the concentration of white blood
cells increases at the injury site (white blood cells fight infection).
The beginning of the inflammation process.
Individual cells are affected by the inflammatory process. Extra fluid that has
migrated from the blood vessels passes into the damaged cells; this begins the
process of disrupting the ionic balance of the cell. The chemical balance of the
cell changes and cellular degeneration begins.
The presence of extra fluid, white blood cells, increased blood flow with in the
tissues causes the damaged area to enlarge and swell, this is commonly known as
oedema.
If untreated or caused by a chronic incurable disease process such as,
arthritis, fibromyalgia and spondylosis, inflammation can become chronic. When
removal of the foreign bodies that are causing the inflammation is ineffective
damaged cells become fused together forming gigantic cells with multiple nuclei
(the brain of the cell) which in turn eventually become granuloma.
A knee joint with chronic inflammation.
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