Avoiding the Trap of Chronic Inflammation: Why Your Body Isn’t Healing
Many of my patients come into the clinic saying something like, “I know I’m inflamed — my body hurts, I’m swollen, I don’t feel right.” And yes — what you’re feeling is inflammation. But here’s the crucial distinction: inflammation is not always bad.
Let’s break it down.
Acute inflammation is your body’s frontline responder. You scrape your knee, sprain your ankle, cut your hand — your immune system sends blood, chemicals, white‑blood cells to fix, rebuild, heal. That’s normal and healthy. In most cases it takes about 6 to 8 weeks to resolve.
But what happens if after 6–8 weeks you’re still swollen, still in pain, still not fully healed? That’s when inflammation shifts from healer to saboteur.
Chronic inflammation means your body is stuck: the healing signals haven’t shut off, the immune chemicals keep flowing, and instead of repair you get breakdown. That’s when you feel pain all over, you’re fatigued, you’re just “not right.” And the challenge is: you may think you’re healing — but you’re not.
At The Legacy Clinic, I want you to ask yourself:
Did I injure something, or did something trigger inflammation?
Has it been more than 6–8 weeks and I’m still swollen, tender, or uncomfortable?
Am I doing everything I can (nutrition, sleep, movement, gut health, stress) and still seeing no resolution?
If the answer is yes — it’s time to take a new look. Because once inflammation becomes chronic, conventional approaches (just pain‑killers, anti‑inflammatories) may help symptoms, but they don’t fix the root cause. The functional‑health approach asks: Why is your immune system still sending chemicals? What underlying dysfunction is provoking it?
At The Legacy Clinic we work to restore balance — to quiet the overactive immune signals, heal the injury or insult, support your gut and metabolism, and fully resolve the inflammation so you can return to true health. Because you deserve to live not just longer, but healthier.
If you are still healing after 6–8 weeks — or feel like you’ve been stuck in this cycle for too long — give us a call. Let’s find out what is keeping you from finishing the job.