Pain Relief

The first goal I have for every new client who walks through my door is pain relief.  I do multiple assessments to determine where the pain is coming from.  Most people take the Band-aid approach, its bleeding stick a Band-aid on it.  Did you by chance first ask, “why is it bleeding” and secondly did you stop the bleeding before you put the Band-aid on.

This is my favorite example and most resembles how doctors and surgeons treat their patients.  You have a door in your house that at one time used to open and shut effortlessly and close all the way.  For some reason now, the door will not close completely and seems to have become bigger in the top right corner.  Now a surgeon is most likely going to treat the top right corner and shave off a piece of the door to make it smaller, so it will once again close.  Under normal circumstances a door can not grow, so how did the door become bigger in the upper right hand corner?

To treat this door correctly you need to get to the root of the problem, don’t just stick a Band-aid on it.  The structure of the door is compromised, the hinges are failing.  Treat the hinges not the door.

Our bodies are much like the door.  You go to the doctor about your knee pain – and he only checks the knee.  Your body is like a chain, everything is linked together.  9 times out of 10 that lingering knee pain is coming from somewhere else in the body, usually the hip.  Low back pain usually comes from a combination of weak glutes and tight hip flexors, not necessarily the back.

The majority of the time pain relief is possible, but you need to find someone who treats the whole body not just the right hand corner of the door.  A good place to start is the Functional Movement Screen website, they have a list of people that are specifically trained to treat the body as a whole.

Stay Motivated,

Karen

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