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decrease pain and promote healing.
Understanding pain
Pain is caused by tissue damage. The reason you
get pain is that the body does not want you to use
the damaged area because using it may damage it
further. (Think of a twisted ankle.) By creating
pain, the body tries to keep you from using the
damaged area until it has time to heal the damaged
tissues. Once the damaged tissue heals enough, the
pain goes away.
Lets break this down so you understand it better.
When tissue is damaged it goes through three
stages:
1. Inflammation
2. Repair/replacement of tissues
3. Remodeling of tissue
