Why Facet Joint Syndrome Pain Doesn't Just Go Away 

You're welcome. Thanks for appreciating. Tendonitis is 100% overcomeable, it's just a matter of doing enough of the right things.

It's pretty much the same, yes. The tendonitis dynamic is the tendonitis dynamic no matter where it shows up. The only real difference is how to address the location. Forearm/wrist, easy. Foot/lower leg, pretty easy. Facet joint pain, not at all easy.

Yes.

What caused the pathophysiological changes?

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Hmm. That happened to a guy last month. We never figured out why, but it magically fixed itself the next day or two. (problem on his side, my side, dunno.) But since we're at it, tell me what the 'freezes' look like to you. Please describe.

PRP (Plasma Rich Platelete injections) and stem cell therapy are both great. Stem cell is greater. They are good for what they are good for: healing tissue. They 100% ignore the causes of the tendon/ligament/joint needing to heal, which is, the tightness, inflammation process, and nutritional lack (that makes up the Tendonitis Dynamic, that causes compression). So, doesn't do any good to try to heal 'the spot' of pain, when the negative factors will be continually making it hurt more.

Thanks. Do you have facet joint syndrome?@@TendonitisExpert

I don't. Long ago I had a bad six months of ruptured l5-S1 (screamed in pain into a pillow until I passed out kind of bad) until I figured all that out. It's all tightness and compression. Reverse that, pain goes away.

Hmm. Looks like it's working to me. What url/web address are you at?

That is A LOT for sure. P5P form of B6. Vit D levels to 60-80ng/ml. Mold I don't know much about, unfortunately.

Arthritic facet joint is no different, ultimately. The arthritis is a result of tightness compressing the joint. Advanced arthritis the inner joint surfaces are ground up and problematic. But even then, you have to remove the tightness to have a chance at relief. But most people with a diagnosis of arthritic facet joints just have pain from compression and no actual damage/deformation (though that does happen over time eventually). Thoracic facet pain is no different than lumbar or cervical. Compressed facet joints from tightness.

Yes, in the sense that, 'knots' are spots of contracted muscle, which however else one wants to say it is (more) tightness. Tightness causes a variety of negatives including compression. Compression of the facet joints leads to irritation and bone/joint bruise....which long story short results in more tightness.

I had a lumbar fusion l5-s1 last July. And this joint problem started a few months ago. I also have myofascial pain and many knots in my back. the pain gets worse with physio exercises and walking. There is a spot on the left side of my spine that hurts when I press it. It's get numb and irritates the muscles around it. I also have shooting pain in my legs.

@TendonitisExpert gee you sound very smart. Don't you have anything else to say apart from saying tightness and compression. There is more to it!

Do tell us what more there is to it.

It might get better on it's own. But probably not.

I didn't fully understand the answer because my English is not very good.Will I always have pain? And will my pain go away? thank you

I don't know if you will always have pain or not. Will it go away without you doing anything to make it go away? Probably not.

A lot more than I did. Because it's super important. Super important. Super important. Super important. Super important. Critically important, really.

If you have 'eagle syndrome', then you have a tendonitis dynamic (too tight muscle and connective tissue, inflammation process, nutritional lack) that is causing compression (of facet joints and everything else) AND a bony growth that is pressing on something. Just for fun, ask your doctors WHY you have eagle syndrome. By which you mean, WHY do you have a bony growth? 1. Surgery is an option, to remove that bony growth. There are some risks of course (like...how close is it to that nerve and can they remove it without damaging that nerve). 2. Maybe surgery is best option, maybe not. 3. If you can remove the compressionn and that gives some space between the bony growth and the whatever it's pressing on. 4. Surgery may help by removing the bony growth, but it ignores all the causes of the compression and the bony growth. 5. Removing the compressionn SHOULD stop the bony growth from growing more.

Hi @@TendonitisExpert, Thank you. I was in a car accident and the ligament tore, the bone is pressing against nerves and carotid artery. I lost my visual memory and the ability to hear, process, and repeat normally. I also have a right head tilt. I have changed my diet and upped the vitamins which helped tremendously. In the back of my mouth, is like I am eating something sour all the time, a slight burning sensation, and swelling. I have frontal and temporal lobes damage.

Ouch. Sounds like a significant, or at least, significant actual rip/tear damage. Questions: WHY exactly do you have a right head tilt? Neurological? Muscles stuck tight on one side? The ligament on the over stretched side tore? If so, that's gotta be more than one ligament involved....? Nutrition, absolutely. The trauma and the ongoing pain etc eats up nutrition. You have higher than normal requirements. How bad is the frontal/temporal lobe damage? Why exactly do you think you have damage. What exactly is the damage (phsically, not symptoms). MRI showed actual brain damage?

@@TendonitisExpert anterolisthesis Muscles tight more on the left one side. However both are hard like a brick. Bilateral stylohyoid ligament calcification 6cm, this also means the ligament is no longer connected to the hyoid bone. Yes, nutrition is helping but I do need more. It is sad, in the beginning, I could not figure out what was going on. I keep telling them something was wrong. They finally did a MRI of my brain and found I have white matter lesion and chronic small vessel. Frontal and temporal lobes. They say the damage is minimal, however, I don’t think so. I can’t make any new memories or see my old ones. I know it happened, but I just see black. I also have eye convergence insufficiency. I asked my doctors the questions you told me to, they just looked like how do you know…

Maybe provides some pain relief. Doesn't fix the underlying cause of the pain/inflammation.

Were your surgeries specifically for facet joints? I had S1-L5 fusion. It helped with my upper back muscles pulling all the time to try to correct the imbalance. That was successful. But my facet joint has arthritis. It hurts. Sometimes I can't focus on anything else. Hanging by one ankle from my inversion table helps. I hope you find relief.

​@DavidG-of1ho I had an L5-s1 lumbar fusion 10 months ago. I started physio a while back and now have facet joint irritation. I never had this problem before or even after surgery, only since starting physio and don't know why.