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#96 Inflamation

4/15/2014

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            All kinds of parts of our body can get inflamed.  It is a natural reaction to an unnatural action.  If you get a cut, you will get inflammation.  If you have an infection, you will have inflammation.  If you develop gum disease, you will also develop inflammation.  If you are afflicted with arthritis, those joint so afflicted will be full of inflammation.  Inflammation is something that occurs all over the body and is part of the normal process of how the body reacts to inflection and injury, and how it repairs said infection or injury.  What inflammation specifically is is a biochemical process involving complex self-created drugs along with huge amounts of water and other bodily fluids (swelling/edema).  The purpose is to kill germs, clear out debris/poisons, and initiate the repair process.  It is very effective, very necessary, usually very painful, but often it gets stuck in the on position and keeps going and going and going and never quits.  This article will explore why inflammation sometimes never quits and why that is a bad thing when it doesn’t quit.

            The basic reason why inflammation might not ever quit is simply because the thing that is causing it never goes away.  If you have gum disease and never deal with it, you will have inflamed gums until they rot away, as nasty as that sounds.  If you have a stomach ulcer the same thing can happen until the ulcer gets big enough that you bleed to death.  All very bad outcomes.  But the important thing with regard to our work here is inflammation of/in/from the spine.  When your spine is damaged by time, life, and gravity (TLG), there will be inflammation.  And there is certainly no adult spine out there that is not damaged by TLG.  It is a pandemic. 

            So if everyone has some inflammation in their spine how big a deal is that?  To answer that requires you know the 3 consequences to spinal inflammation; 1 – PAIN, 2 – ACCELERATED DEGENERATION, 3 – DISEASE.  Inflammation, if you have enough of it, will cause pain.  It is the primary cause of back and back-related pain.  90% of all humans will suffer from back pain.  Degeneration - More money will be spent on the treatment of back pain than any other single disease or health problem, by far.  Disability from a bad back is the #1 cause of disability.  Over 50% of all whiplash victims will suffer chronic neck pain.   14% of them will become disabled.  That alone is the equivalent of the population of the entire state of Wyoming becoming disabled just from whiplash every year!  Disease - As is stated and reviewed in detail in the Time Magazine Article “The Fires Within” inflammation is becoming the go-to cause or co-cause of a great many chronic diseases that we humans suffer, including cancer, heart disease, asthma, and many others.  In short, inflammation is responsible for more pain than anything else, causes more disability than anything else, and if that is not enough, causes disease and foreshortens your life.  Isn’t that great?!

            There are ways to measure your blood inflammation, and if you ask your medical doctor he can run a test called cardiac C - reactive protein.  There are easier ways to measure your spinal inflammation, which is exactly what we are doing when we examine you here at my office.  At the end of that exam you get your TSV-Total Subluxation Value, the number we use to measure the amount of inflammation and nerve stress you have in your spine.  And every treatment tool we use here is all about reducing that number as much as possible. 
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