Pain

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We should discuss pain a bit, but only a tiny bit.

Pain is commonly caused by an 'itis'. The itis is commonly caused by poor behaviour, ie. poor lifestyle, thus, the link to our services.

The Inflammation - itis - Word
Finding an ‘itis’ on the end of a medical word means inflammation of that tissue which the word points to. Some common ‘itises’ in Musculoskeletal tissues are as follows.

Health care professionals do not cause any of the itises by their treatments or the examinations. Chiropractors, massage therapists, physiotherapists, orthopaedic surgeons etc., generally do not cause any of these itises. People have them before they walk into the office. An examination may temporarily aggravate an itis, but it does not cause it. People may have the itis in a sub clinical form. That means they have the itis, but do not know it because the pain is not there yet. The tissues are not stretched enough yet. The health care professional is trained to find those itises. Sometimes that might hurt a wee bit.

Treating the itises becomes a multi factorial problem because most often the itis is multi factorial. For instance smokers have more itises and more of most everything bad. People overweight have more itises because the excessive weight strains tissues. Sedentary people have more itises because of poor blood flow. People who eat the common poison-foods in Dr. Ouellette’s poison food list have more itises.

The itises can cause pain. That is usually because the itis causes swelling and that swelling stretches the pain sensors setting off pain. The itis can also cause disability if the part affected will not work properly while the itis is there.

Getting rid of the itis can be tricky because people may not be willing to change some of the things adding to the itis. They search for passive care and drugs instead of correcting the things they can fix themselves for free.

When chiropractors manipulate the spine, that treatment doesn't cause disks to bulge or rupture. When massage therapists perform deep fiber therapy this treatment doesn't cause muscles to tear. There are massage techniques to tear scar tissue adhesions, but that is another story. 

However, when surgeons perform surgery they do have to cut through tiny nerves, and sometimes larger ones too, which sometimes leaves long-term numbness. When medical doctors prescribed multiple medications, these sometimes cause cross-reactions.

We can see that it is usually better to try conservative therapies first before the more radical therapies of drugs and surgeries which carry higher risks. To be clear, drugs and surgeries are sometimes necessary. Our position is that people should do all they can themselves, to help themselves before agreeing to the more radical treatments available. That is the idea behind self-help wellness.

And, if there is hope that people can prevent disease processes, injury processes, and sickness processes from happening in the first place, then that is by far the smarter way to go. Understanding these technical considerations with regard to healthcare providers helps de-stress one's life considerably.

WellnessRisk.com puts numbers to wellness in order to show a direction that people can take to help themselves, even with some of the more common itises.

WellnessRisk.com does not treat pain, or any other condition for that matter. See a licenced health care professional if you have pain.

See our PDF article on Wellness Recovery-Wellness Maintenance the Issue of PAIN.

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