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A year ago I was forbidden to keep up my mountain climbing hobby. Heart pains occurred, and I got the diagnosis of myocardial ischemia, stenocardia. As a result I was recommended to be operated on. Instead of operation I started exercising with the Frolov's training device under physicians' observation. This summer after exercising on the training device for 9 months and complete medical check-up I resumed active training at the mountaineering club.
Ralph Beddinger, 45, USA
Arthritis and Neurological Organization
When you think about arthritis, you might think of pain and swelling for no known reason with no known fix.
You have never heard this mentioned elsewhere, but inflammation (the redness and swelling) is regulated in the same way everything else is regulated. These reactions depend on accurate perceptions, and the central organ designed to perceive is the brain.
To help illustrate how inflammation works, let's take the example of how your brain deals with something similar; sound. Unimportant sounds, like the repetitive ticking of a clock, are ignored for good reason. A loud siren and the cry of a baby are specifically designed not to be ignored, also for good reason.
Built into the brains blueprint is a system designed to determine what sounds to react to, and what sounds to ignore. However due to brain injury or lack of use, sound is not necessarily processed very well. We've seen kids who, when hearing a quiet dog bark, cover their ears and run around for several minutes. We've seen other kids who don't react at all to an adjacent fire engine siren. In both cases, the reaction to the sound didn't correspond to the severity of the threat.
Likewise, the brain is designed to determine the urgency with which it should deal with injury. Inflammation is simply the first stage of the bodies repair mechanism.
On the left is the scheme we created to show how the brain processes information for every system. This red loop at the bottom represents the reflexes in your body. Here is how it works with respect to inflammation.
1)Injury
2)Sensors in the tissue recognize the damage
3)Sensors send a message to the spinal cord.
4)The spinal cord sends a message back to the tissue, either to increase or to decrease inflammation.
The real beauty of the system is that this healing reflex can be turned on (ideally at night) or off (during the busy day) because of the orange look above the red loop. People with a weak loop tend to wear themselves out (osteoarthritis), while others with a very strong look tend towards an arthritis spread throughout the body.
So the real question is this. Why are some people's inflammation reaction exaggerated while others are suppressed? It has to do with what you do and how you do it. We will explain those activities in detail elsewhere, but for now we wanted to present our view that an organized brain regulates inflammation.