Chronic Pain

What Is Pain?

When you first experience pain, it is a symptom of illness or injury in the part of your body that is having the pain. The sudden onset of pain is called acute pain. It gets your attention and prompts you to take action to prevent further worsening of the condition causing the pain. This could be a simple action such as the reflex that makes you jerk your hand off a hot stove, or it could be more complex such as cooling, resting, or elevating an injured ankle.

We take for granted that we will feel good most of the time. When pain strikes, it interrupts our work, our recreation, and our relationships with our families. Comfort is one of your goals if you are sick and should be one of the goals of treatment for the medical doctor who is treating you for any illness.

Did You Know?

All symptoms are necessary for the individual expressing them at that moment in time. If your body's inborn intelligence is the infinite resource within that makes NO mistakes, then all symptoms are in effect,  your body's inborn response to survive, adapt, react or heal!

Once the cause of your pain is found and proper Chiropractic Correction is started, but always remember the pain may serve the very useful function of keeping you at rest so that the injury or illness can heal.

Why pain can become worse: There is a "wind-up phenomenon" that causes untreated pain to get worse. Nerve fibers transmitting the painful impulses to the brain become "trained" to deliver pain signals better. Just like muscles get better at sports with training, the nerves become more effective at sending pain signals to the brain. The intensity of the signals increases over and above what is needed to get your attention. To make matters even worse, the brain becomes more sensitive to the pain. So your pain feels much worse even though your injury or illness is not getting any worse. At this point, pain may be termed chronic pain. And it is no longer helpful as a signal of illness.