How often have we been in pain and sought ways to remove it from our bodies? How many times have we taken pain pills and muscle relaxers, rubbed lotions and potions on our bodies, iced it, heated it, or ignored it? If you are the average person, then you IGNORE IT for as long as you can, hoping that it will just go away, and then resort to pills when you can't ignore it anymore.
No one wants to be in pain. However, can it ever be a good thing to have pain expressed in the body? Can it ever be a healthy sign? People who have numbness in their limbs, especially their feet, can feel no pain, and yet they could be setting themselves up for danger. How?
Pain is the body's healthy mechanism to alert you that something is WRONG. It is an alarm clock that rings loudly and insistently to wake you up, so you will correct whatever is the problem. However, if you ignore this alarm clock long enough, you can eventually "sleep" through the blaring sounds, not realizing how loud it really is, or you can "tune" it out altogether! And, for the person who has numb feet, stepping on sharp objects or cutting themselves can be a very dangerous, pain-free experience. If you don't know something is hurting you, then you don't know there is a problem to correct. Without taking that splinter or tack out of your foot, you could set yourself up for a terrible infection, which could then lead to gangrene and death.
What if you have headaches or pains somewhere in your body? How about asthma or stomach problems? What about a fever? Could these symptoms be healthy responses of your body to alert you that something needs to be addressed? Many people are afraid of having fevers. However, even at a high level (over 100 degrees), fevers are HEALTHY mechanisms of your body to KILL off the invading organisms that are hurting you! If you take pills to artificially reduce that healthy heat, then you are setting yourself up for more sickness, longer. Pain tells you that you are doing something wrong, something is out of alignment and nerves are pinched, or you have allergies to some substance. It is not given to you without good reason.
The problem with using pain as the sole alarm system of the body is this: over 90% of your nerves CAN NOT tell you pain! SO, by the time you do feel pain, it may have been weeks or years after the problem started! And, just because the pain never starts doesn't mean the problem isn't there! How many people have you heard had absolutely no symptoms before they had their first heart attack or their cancer diagnosis? The level of pain is the least accurate measure of someone's health.
Chiropractors detect and correct vertebral subluxations, misalignments of the spinal vertebrae which impinge on nerves, causing inflammation, degeneration, reduced motion, and reduced function. We find the areas of the spine where there can be painless, as well as painful, blockages to the normal nerve flow of the body. We perform chiropractic adjustments on these subluxated areas, which then release the body's innate ability to heal itself.
Pain is not comfortable. However, it is a normal, healthy sign that something is wrong and needs to be corrected. If you do NOT have pain, it does not mean you are healthy. Don't just rely on pain to determine the level of your health. Get a full chiropractic exam today to see if you are functioning at your highest potential!
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