🚨 Think total rest is the best way to heal an injury? Think again.

In this episode of Your Healing Team, I’m breaking down one of the biggest myths about recovery: that more rest = faster healing. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t. In fact, too much rest can actually slow your recovery and make it harder for your body to heal properly.

Here’s what we’re covering:
✅ The difference between total rest and relative rest—and why one is better for healing.
✅ Why ignoring your body’s signals can delay recovery (and how to listen to them instead).
✅ The shocking truth about muscle wasting—how it starts in just 9 hours of inactivity.
✅ How to stay active and avoid irritating your injury, so you can heal faster and stronger.

🎾 Whether you’re dealing with tennis elbow, back pain, or a rolled ankle, this episode is packed with actionable tips to help you recover smarter—not harder.

00:00 Introduction to the Episode

00:13 The Concept of Rest and Relative Rest

01:05 The Pitfalls of Total Rest

01:47 The Importance of Relative Rest

04:03 The Consequences of Prolonged Rest

05:58 Balancing Activity and Rest

07:51 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

👉 Hit play now to learn how to optimize your recovery and get back to doing what you love!

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📍 Welcome to Your Healing Team with Emma Green, the Tennis Elbow Queen!

In this episode, we’re diving into one of the most misunderstood health topics: chronic inflammation. You’ve heard the words, but do you really know what it means—or how it’s impacting your body?

Here’s what you’ll learn:
✅ The difference between acute inflammation (good!) and chronic inflammation (not so good).
✅ Why sitting for just 4 hours can spike your inflammation levels (and how to fix it in 3 minutes).
✅ The surprising role stress, diet, and sleep play in keeping your body inflamed.
✅ Simple, science-backed strategies to lower inflammation naturally—without overhauling your life.

Emma also shares actionable tips like:
✨ How to use movement breaks to combat inflammation (even during your busiest days).
✨ Why eliminating certain foods (like dairy) could be a game-changer for your symptoms.
✨ The power of meditation, yoga, and forest bathing to reduce stress and inflammation.

If you’ve been feeling off, stuck, or just not your best, this episode is packed with practical advice to help you take back control of your health.

🎧 Hit play now and start your healing journey!

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In this powerful episode of Your Healing Team, host Emma Green—licensed physical therapist and Tennis Elbow Queen—dives deep into the nervous system’s role in chronic pain, injury, and recovery.

If you’ve been stuck in a cycle of stubborn symptoms despite doing “everything right,” this might be the breakthrough you need.

You’ll learn:

• What the nervous system actually is—and how it works

• Why tingling, numbness, and nerve pain are messages (not malfunctions)

• How pain gets “memorized” by your brain

• What central sensitization is—and why it matters in long-term healing

• How a chronically stressed nervous system blocks tissue repair

• Science-backed ways to calm the nervous system and switch from “fight or flight” to “rest and heal”

This episode highlights the cutting-edge neuroscience behind healing and introduces you to Empowered Relief®, a mind-body pain relief class developed by Stanford University pain psychologists—now available online with Emma.

If you’ve been battling pain for 3+ months, struggling to get lasting relief, or just curious about the brain-body connection, this episode is a must-listen.

✔️ Peripheral nerve symptoms (tingling, numbness, pain) signal deeper nervous system issues
✔️ Chronic pain can “rewire” the brain and create a hypersensitive pain response
✔️ Healing requires more than physical treatment—it needs nervous system regulation
✔️ Parasympathetic activation (rest/digest mode) is essential for tendon, muscle & joint recovery
✔️ Simple, proven strategies—like breathwork, forest bathing, yoga, and Empowered Relief—can retrain the brain for healing

👉 Learn about the Empowered Relief® class Emma teaches online
👉 Book a virtual consultation with Emma Green
👉 Explore more healing tools at TennisElbowQueen.com

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If this episode helped you better understand your pain—or gave you new hope—please take a moment to rate, review, and share the podcast with someone who needs it.

Your nervous system could be the key to your recovery. Let’s help more people unlock it.