CAN PAIN BE A HEALTHY SYMPTOM?

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! 

On The Straight Path: My Pesonal Testimonial to the Effectiveness of Chiropractic Care

I first started chiropractic care when I was 15 years old, after suffering for 8 years with daily, acute low back pain, inflammatory arthritis in all my joints, frequent headaches and neck pain, and a compromised immune system which caused me to get a cold every month, and a constant, runny nose.  I also had a 17 degree scoliosis which caused my left leg to be functionally 2 inches shorter than the right.  This condition caused me to be unable to walk straight, and to constantly feel off balance.  However, soon after starting chiropractic care, I started feeling improvements in my pain level and frequency.  After several months of regular care, I realized that most of my symptoms were dramatically improving. 

Within 1 year of corrective chiropractic care, ALL the symptoms I had suffered with daily completely disappeared!  Therefore, at 15 years old, I decided to dedicate my life to helping others also get healthy and pain-free, naturally and safely, without the use of drugs or surgery.
    
I have stayed a regular chiropractic patient for most of my life.  Even now, I get my spine checked once a week, more if I need it.  Throughout the many years of falls, accidents, injuries, and repetitive stresses caused from my many athletic pursuits and caring for hundreds of patients each week, chiropractic adjustments have been essential in restoring and maintaining my health and activity level.  Because of chiropractic,  I have been able to run marathons, bike, extreme hike, weight lift, skydive, and rock climb for many years.  When I was 15 years old, I could not even walk up a slight hill without extreme pain.  I could not even dare to dream of the health and strength I enjoy today.
    
Not only have I witnessed miracles in my own life, I have been blessed to have facilitated miracles in countless patients over the years.  Whether it is an infant or child with chronic ear infections, colic, or asthma finally finding relief and correction; a breech baby turning before the planned C-section; acute disc patients canceling their surgeries because of tremendous pain relief; or sciatic and arthritic patients finding pain relief for the first time in many months or years, I have been blessed to be able to help suffering people of all ages, naturally and safely.
    
Chiropractic is not just my career or business.  It is my passion, way of life, and mission.  I believe I was born to be a chiropractor.  I suffered needlessly for too many years of my young life, and I do not want others to waste their precious days on this earth living less than optimal health and vitality.
    
Please do yourself a big favor and find a passionate, loving, and gifted chiropractor today.  Ask for referrals if you can.  If not, then have faith and find one close to you who shares the belief that chiropractic care is not just about pain relief, but about releasing the innate healing power in you, by removing nerve interference.

Breathe deeply, love deeply, stay positive, and embrace the present moment always!
      

Is your nervous system and health at its highest potential?

The nervous system controls every single function, organ, gland, and cell in the body.  This delicate system is then protected by the skull, 24 moveable vertebrae, and the pelvis. How can one be completely healthy and be able to heal properly when there is an INTERFERENCE to your INNATE healing ability?  How does it get interfered with?  Well, the spinal cord and all the nerves exiting your spinal column can be impinged when the vertebrae protecting them gets moved out of their normal alignment.  This condition is called vertebral subluxations.  Vertebrae which move out of their normal positions can cause not only nerve irritation and impingement, but inflammation, muscle spasms, and degenerative disc changes.  Chiropractors are trained to locate and correct these subluxations which diminish your life and health potential.

What is true health?  Is it merely the absence of pain?  Or is it the body's ability to function at its highest potential?  Symptoms are the least accurate way to determine one's health.  How many people have had their first heart attack as their first symptom of heart disease?  How many people have discovered that they have cancer, without any symptoms?  Most of the nerves in your body cannot tell you pain.  They only coordinate function from the brain to the connecting tissues, and then back to the brain.

If you are already having symptoms like neck and back pain, numbness, headaches, sinus/allergies, weakness, asthma, or arm/leg pains, then certainly something is wrong.  Your body is telling you to find the reason for this dysfunction.  However, just because you don't have any of these symptoms doesn't mean you don't have a problem.  ONLY a chiropractor is trained to locate and correct these vertebral subluxations which could be causing health problems, with or without your knowledge. 


Don't delay and procrastinate, hoping that it will just go away.  Find a loving, passionate, highly trained chiropractor today!