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#55 What Is Pain?

3/26/2014

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            Although there are many types of pain and hundreds of sources of pain within the human body, they all serve the same purpose, to tell the brain that there is something wrong and to pay attention to it.  It is much like the oil warning lamp on your car’s dashboard.  It’s telling you that there is something wrong and you had better look into its cause very soon.  In the case of your car there might be a leak somewhere which would give you three options;  find and fix the leak, add oil to the engine, or place a piece of black tape over that annoying lamp on the dashboard.  So let’s look at these three options in the context of your body.

            Of all the lessons I am trying to convey here perhaps the most important is for you to understand that in general pain is not an early warning system.  Rather, it is a late warning system that something is wrong within your body.  Obvious examples of this are heart disease and cancer, both of which can be going on for months, years or even decades before there are any symptoms of any kind.  Another example is the wear and tear kind of arthritis that each of us will feel by the time we are 40 or 50s.  Studies and clinical observation tell us that by the time we feel the pain of arthritis that there has been active degeneration in those joints for decades.  X-rays most often even look normal in those early stages of arthritis since x-rays are a relatively insensitive tool for this kind of diagnosis, believe it or not.    

            So what is pain?  It is the late warning system that once active you have no choice but to pay attention to.  You must find the cause of the oil warning light and fix it.  Don’t just add oil or put tape on the light.  In the context of this office, it means finding the subluxation and fixing it as close to 100% as is possible which involves both Initial Intensive and Reconstructive Care. 

            “But I don’t have pain,” some argue.  Remember, it’s a late warning system.  We can find the subluxation and fix it before the pain begins.  This is called Reconstructive Care only.  These people skip the Initial Intensive Care.  We actually do get new patients who have no pain, that want to see if they have subluxation and then have it fixed before it causes the pain that will inevitably come.  Just like it’s always better to identify the cancer or heart disease before there are symptoms, just like it’s better to find the oil leak before the warning lamp lights up, it is the same for subluxation. 

            So the lesson is to fix the cause of the pain once you have it and better yet, fix it before it causes any pain in the first place.   
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     I used to suffer severe headaches and migraines on a daily basis, usually all day.  I managed to work in an office because I had to.  When I went home at the end of the day I would often close the shades and go to bed.  I could not plan weekend events because I simply never knew how I was going to feel tomorrow.  If there were a special event such as a birthday or wedding, I would begin to medicate myself two weeks in advance to give myself the best chance of making the event.
     Friends and fellow church-goers had been trying to get me to see Dr. Rick for some time before I finally gave in.  Looking back, I don’t know why I waited.  Within a month, I was headache free.  I couldn’t remember what it was like to not feel pain.  I could do whatever I wanted and not live in fear of the headache.  This was a miracle for me, but the story does not end here.
     An opportunity came up for us to adopt a newborn baby girl not long after I began chiropractic care.  This baby was particularly important to me and my husband because her mother is a relative.  Tragically, her mother was also a drug user and did drugs during her pregnancy.  If we could not adopt the baby she would have been put into the foster system since the biological mother was incapable of raising her.
     To keep a long story short, we did adopt her and she is doing fantastically.  There is no sign of any effect of the drugs on her as of yet, and with God’s help, there never will be.  We think that is because of the vast amounts of love and attention she gets from us, her real mommy and daddy.
     What does this have to do with chiropractic?  The reality is that without chiropractic, I would still be nearly an invalid with headaches.  I COULD NOT HAVE TAKEN CARE OF AN INFANT OR RAISED A YOUNG CHILD.  THEREFORE, SHE WOULD NOT HAVE ANY OF THE OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE THAT MY HUSBAND AND I WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR HER.  MY DAUGHTER’S LIFE IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE SOMEBODY MADE ME GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR. 
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     Hello, My name is Andrew and I am a happy, healthy one year old.  But I wasn’t so happy or healthy when I first met Dr. Rick a few months ago.  I had been having problems with my ears for four months, I couldn’t sleep at night and I was miserable.  We’d been to the doctor lots of times but nothing was helping.  In fact, all the medicines the doctor had tried seemed to make me worse instead of better!  Both the regular doctor and the Ear-Nose and Throat doctor said that if the antibiotics didn’t work, then they’d just have to put tubes in.  Now my Mom and dad weren’t about to let them do surgery on me, especially since they had been reading and learned that tubes can cause more problems than they solve.  My mom and dad did a lot of praying.  Then my mom heard that sometimes babies who have a traumatic birth like mine have ear trouble.  You see when I was born they used a vacuum extractor and forceps to pull me out.  I guess all that yanking on my head, hurt my neck.  She also heard that chiropractic care can be the answer.  Now she was skeptical because she couldn’t imagine a chiropractor helping ear infections!?!  But at that point she was willing to try anything!!  Happily, a few weeks of adjustments and my ears were all cleared up.  In addition, I no longer had a stiff neck or shoulders and my whole personality was happier.  I have to tell all babies who have ear troubles, don’t let them give you tubes until you at least try chiropractic care first.  After all, it can’t hurt and if you’re like me, you could be perfectly well with no drugs and no surgery.  In my family, we thank God for Dr. Rick, because I feel better, my mom and dad are happier and sometimes, I even sleep through the night.