Recently I’ve been prescribed anti-inflammatory for tendinopathy on my shoulder. Why is masking the pain helpful here? Shouldn’t it intentionally be there as a warning that “no you should not be moving your arm yet”? Also why inflammation is good in the first place? Does it mean more fluids with nutrients on the area for better recovery? Plz you can literally explain this like I am actually 5.
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Inflammation and pain are useful when you don’t have someone who is medically trained, like when we lived in huts and had no accumulated knowledge. You can certainly not take the medication and simply suffer, but that’s going to be an unpleasant time for you. Anti-inflammatories, used at your doctor’s/nurse’s direction, will reduce that unpleasantness. If you are worried that you won’t know when you’ve fully healed, that is a discussion you can have with your doctor/nurse; they’ll have information about how long these injuries usually take to heal and therefore when you can either come back for an additional check-up or resume normal use of the arm.
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