JOINT PAIN WITH WEATHER CHANGE: explanation of this phenomenon is quite simple. Let me explain.
Before a storm, the barometer falls as the ambient barometric pressure diminishes. This means that the body mass, which is somewhat like a sausage wrapped in the dermal skin, slightly expands. When this happens, the contained soft tissues also expand...
As soft tissues expand so do ligaments tethering joints; with consequences for motions of joints, which would be expected to experience greater Ranges Of Motion (ROM). Greater joint ROM exerts increased translated & longitudinal bio-stress & pain of chronically injured ligaments.
Ligaments are imbued with legions of pain nociceptor transducers; serious pain is aroused when mechanical forces tend to pull our bodies apart & asunder; such as employed by the “Rack” of Spanish Inquisition abuse & infamy.
People with Fibromyalgia, EDS, CRPS, & HSD usually have variant/increased flexibility & bendiness of ligament tissues; with consequent joint hypermobility, which can be an exceedingly painful conditions.
As the body soft tissue sausage expands, joints are less compacted & injured ligaments are stretched; with pain arousal often a significant consequence.
Fibromyalgia & painful hypermobility of sacroiliac joints are conditions worsened by a lower ambient barometric field.
After becoming aware of these tissue relationships, my theory was affirmed as patients told me their stories: One hypermobile patient had a tiered water fountain outside his bedroom window & noted bigger floating bubbles on lower tier when barometric pressure decreased.
Another hypermobile patient, an RN with bilateral sacroiliac joint laxity & subluxation, experienced increased “hip pain” & greater girth around her hips whenever she went 2,000+ feet up to an higher elevation.
As result of regard for ambient forces of gravity & barometric pressure on body bio-mechanics, I developed a novel method of diagnosis & trademarked the name Biomechanical Functional Diagnosis, but that is another story.
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