Acute inflammatory response via neutrophil protects against chronic pain
Mark Rippetoe swears by a remedy he developed for elbow tendonitis, based on pin firing. Pin firing is an old treatment for certain injuries to a horse's leg, whereby inflammation is intentionally exacerbated using a hot poker. The idea being that this increased inflammatory response causes the original injury to heal.His remedy for elbow tendonitis basically involves a few sessions of doing chin ups until your elbow pain is unbearable. And then keep going. Many low-rep sets over and over. The idea is that this will increase inflammation, causing your body to heal the original injury along with the inflammation.He claims this healed his own elbow tendonitis and has worked for countless others.I follow Rip's strength training program. However I can't say I'd ever give this a try and I'm not sure there's any scientific evidence that it works.Just thought it was pretty interesting, even if it's just bogus. I have no idea!https://startingstrength.com/training/elbow-tendonitis-how-i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_firing (an article on his website)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1frSvu8KyE (he talks about it in this podcast)