Bursitis develops when your bursa team — fluid-filled sacs cushioning joints — becomes inflamed from repetitive friction, pressure, or injury. Your bursa at shoulders, hips, elbows, or knees can swell when surrounding muscle or tendon teams repeatedly rub against them. Your movement pattern team may create repetitive stress, while your inflammatory team responds to tissue irritation. Your muscular imbalance team affects joint mechanics, increasing friction, and your nervous system team amplifies pain signals. Your immune team can also trigger bursitis through inflammatory or autoimmune responses. The organism-as-team approach works because bursitis rarely exists in isolation. Your muscular balance team around affected joints needs optimization to reduce friction, your movement pattern team requires retraining to avoid repetitive irritation, your postural team influences joint alignment and loading, your inflammatory regulation team benefits from systemic calming, and your circulation team must support bursa healing. By treating your organism as cooperative systems, you can identify and correct movement patterns creating friction, reduce systemic inflammation affecting bursa tissue, strengthen stabilizing muscles to improve joint mechanics, optimize posture and ergonomics, support your immune system's healing response while calming excess inflammation, and gradually restore normal joint function. Think of bursae as shock absorbers in your joints — when surrounding mechanics are off, the shock absorbers wear out from constant friction. The team approach fixes the mechanics to protect the cushions. ⚕️ This protocol does not replace professional consultation.