Pain Therapy

Pain therapy can take the shape of many treatments such as, chiropractic care, massage therapy, medicated analgesics, physical therapy, steroid injections, OTC’s and prescription medications.  Pain is the last thing to come on in the body and the first thing to disappear.  When someone is suffering from pain it seems to take over their life causing impairments, immobility, depression, and seclusion.  Pain can be managed easily depending on the severity of the condition and at what stage the disease is in.  Many pain sufferers go to their primary care physician in the search for prescription pain-killers in the hopes of delivering a quick fix to eliminate the pain. 

Pain is a symptom

What most people don’t realize is pain is a symptom not a sign.  Pain means that there is an underlying problem that needs to be evaluated further or it will keep coming back.  If you don’t treat the underlying problem you will never completely eliminate the pain.  Pain is caused from disturbances within our body’s nervous system firing the nerves at incredible and sometimes constant rates.  “Pain-killers” only mask the problem for a short while, then the body adapts to the medication and needs a stronger medication to get the same analgesic effect.  Chiropractic works differently.  Chiropractic helps the body to heal itself through innate intelligence, your body’s brain center if you will.  Chiropractic eliminates subluxations, therefore decreasing the rate at which your nerve fibers fire.  This concept aids in pain relief and therefore is the ultimate in pain therapy.  It not only eliminates the pain but eliminates the underlying condition as well.  In the instance where chiropractic isn’t warranted, other alternative or conservative approaches may be necessary.