Why Can't I Get Rid of The Pain?

WHY, WHY, WHY!

I remember I got in a car wreck years ago…", "I sit in front of the computer for too long every day…"

"I have a very stressful job; the tension is always over my shoulders…"; "I hurt my back when I picked up my five- year-old daughter 3 years ago…"

"I did nothing recently, I just woke up and it hurts like hell…"; "My chiropractic doctor tells me I don’t have a normal spine curve."

"My physical therapist tells me I have weak muscles."; "My family doctor tells me I have arthritis."

"My orthopedic doctor tells me I developed degeneration.", "I have had my chiropractic adjustment 3 times a week for 3 months."

"I have had physical therapy for 6 months."; "I take anti-inflammatory drugs, pain killers, and muscle relaxants."

"My orthopedic doctor recommends that I try an acupuncturist before doing surgery."

SO HERE I AM! HOW CAN YOU HELP ME TO ELIMINATE THE PAIN?

Your doctors and physical therapists are correct in their assessments. However, to maximize your results, first I will need to augment your nutrition metabolism with better food digestion.

The Great Wall of China and the Coliseum in Rome have survived thousands of years because they were built with durable and sturdy stone blocks. Similar to the structural blocks of the Great Wall and the Coliseum, the discs in your spine and the cartilage in your knees absorb shock and resist force and impact every day. These internal structural blocks of our bodies need to receive adequate nutrition from quality protein to maintain performance, as well as to rebuild and repair the damage that comes from every day use.

Most cartilage, ligaments, and tendons do not have blood vessels to supply nutrition. Instead, the cells of these tissues receive nourishment by diffusion from the surrounding tissues through extra cellular matrix. Extra cellular matrix is a gel-like substance made of complex carbohydrate (glycosaminoglycan and hyaluronic acid). It holds a tremendous amount of water, and permits rapid diffusion of water-soluble molecules while inhibiting the movement of large molecules and bacteria. Phospholipids, a type of fat, are another major component of every cell’s membrane's structural integrity, and necessary just as bricks may hold together the wall of your house. These complex carbohydrates and phospholipids are derived from the absorption of quality protein in the food that you eat.

Proteins build up the frame of our body, especially the musculoskeletal system. Ligaments, tendons, fascia,, cartilages, even bone have fibers made from proteins called collagen and elastin. Collagen is flexible yet gives these tissues tremendous strength. Elastin gives these tissues elasticity, the ability to stretch. Muscle is made of myofilaments, which is also a kind of protein, and which give muscles contractile capability.

Carbohydrates are energy fuel, which is the function of simple sugar. Carbohydrate is also major component to build up our bodies structure. Bone, ligament, tendon, fascia, blood vessels, the sheath of nerves, the mucous membrane, the septum of tissues and organs. Even the blood, lymph fluids, and your body fat belong to “connective tissue”. Ground substance is the dominant component of connective tissue. It is a viscous, clear substance with slippery feel. Two major components of ground substance are GAG (glycosaminoglycan) and HA (hyaluronic acid). They are complex carbohydrates, which means that hundreds, even thousands, of sugar molecules link together.

Fatty Acids are the major component of body cell membranes. Phospholipids and the associated proteins usually are a 1:1 proportion by weight. But in some tissue, for example myelin (the sheath of nerve), the lipid (fat) component outweighs the protein component by a ratio of 4:1.

Minerals. Sulfur and sulfate bind up the linkage between the molecules of protein and protein, or between protein and carbohydrate. These minerals act as thread does to sew pieces of cloth together.

Do you know why? after the L4/L5 discs are fused by surgery, in some patients, L5/S1 and several level discs on neck bulge too? It is not just a bio-mechanical problem; it is also caused by chemical and nutritional problems. There aren't durable and sturdy natural building blocks to hold the spine together, as strong stone holds together the Great Wall of China.

First: Eating healthy does not mean you are healthy, or pain free for that matter

When humans were created, so was genetic individualism. Even twins from the same fertilized egg, although they may look very similar, have different likes and different characters. The same is true for the internal universe.

No one can digest every food perfectly. Digestion is a very complicated process beginning when food is put into the mouth. Salivary glands begins to secret mucous, and the stomach, liver, pancreas, and small intestine begin to secrete enzymes and natural chemicals which is mixed into the food, causing hundreds and thousands chemical reactions to happen.

One patient may have gallstones. Another doesn't, but feels gassy or bloated, has heartburn, constipation, or diarrhea after consumption of fatty foods. Both are signs and symptoms of poor digestion of oils.

Even if food can be digested and absorbed perfectly, the intake and utilization of it by body cells is another complicated process. For example, without insulin, glucose (sugar) will not be able to cross the cellular membrane; it will stay in the blood and go out thru the urine.

Nutrition must be taken in by receptors, and carried through gates and channels with the help of message chemicals ….what creates these complicated systems?

Is there any other better way to communicate with our bodies aside from swallowing pills? (Please see another pamphlet: What is in the vials?)

Second: Toxicity is another big reason cause of pain

Not only a 'pinched nerve' can cause pain. Nerves also have chemical receptors which sense and detect chemical changes within and outside of the body. Have you had this experience? You have a paper cut on your finger, but salt or shampoo accidentally get into the wound. Ouch!! Burning pain! detected by the chemical receptors in your cut.

We object to environmental pollution, but do you realize how much we also pollute our own internal environment? Maintaining healthy body cells requires a constant and stable PH (aid-alkaline balance), temperature, volume of water, permeable pressure, and also that the residual waste of nutritional substances such as sugar, protein, cholesterol, ions quickly be removed.

What are you putting into your body when you drink coffee every day? What do you think about the food additives in pre-packaged food? How about artificial sugar? How about pesticides and insecticides? The dioxin in plastics? If detergent can wash oil off your hands, can it dissolve away the fatty acids of the cellular membranes of your body when it is absorbed (which it is) into body through skin?

Very good questions for us all !!

Third: Referring pain from organs:

Do you know the medical term “somato-visceral?” This refers to the relationship of the musculoskeleton and the internal organs. The nerves going to the internal organs branch out from the same spine nerve as the nerves going to the muscles at the same level. When a pain signal transmits to the brain through the same spine nerve and passage way, the brain can not differentiate whether it comes from the organ or muscle at the same level. For example, you and Sam, your brother, are on the second floor. Your parents are in the bedroom downstairs. Your brother turns on the TV and wakes up your parents. Your mom scolds you, “Turn off the TV.” You say “It’s not me, it’s Sam.” Your mom says “It doesn’t matter; you guys on the second floor make too much noise.”

Patients with heart problems may complain of shoulder and arm pain. Patients with gallbladder problems may complain of scapula and shoulder blade pain. Patients with ovarian cysts may complain of hip pain. Patients with kidney problems may have low back pain.

Or, you may tell me,
I just visited my medical doctor, he said I’m fine. On my annual physical exam, all lab tests are normal!

I totally agree with your doctor and you. But as an example: when you do exercise on a treadmill and speed increases, you start to run faster, and if the speed continually increases, you can still adapt by running faster still, and breathing faster, your heart pumping faster. If your trainer continues to increase the speed, you finally say, “I’m tired”. But if your trainer keeps increasing speed, you will finally fall down.

Your body and internal organs respond the same way. They have very good adaptability as you increase the stress on them and even when 'tired', they are still 'normal' – although they do send you signals to catch your attention. Only when you pass their limits do they 'crash', and then you become sick or experience pathological changes or degeneration.

Is it better to attend to a problem when it makes noise, or to wait until it's totally broken?

Sometimes I treat neck stiffness and increase neck range of motion when I correct heartburn .. because in acupuncture, the stomach meridian goes to the neck. Sometimes I treat low back pain by correcting constipation. Once I treated a woman for low back pain and she became pregnant, even though she had been diagnosed as infertile.

Fourth: Emotions can be painful.

Thousands of years ago when Chinese medicine originated, emotion and physical body were connected. We recognize that physical conditions can cause emotions to change – for example, patients with hepatitis of the liver are much more easily irritated or angered.

Emotions can also change the physical body. For example, continual increased blood pressure and pounding heartbeat
from stress cause burn out for people.

If you are in an automobile accident, it may not only injure your neck with whiplash. You are injured from the panic stress you experience when your car was slammed by a big truck; the financial stress to repair the car and pay medical bills makes you worry; and you experience further stress from anger and frustration when you talk with the insurance company. The impact received by the mechanoreceptors of the nerves on your lower back, the tearing of the muscles or ligaments felt by the pain receptors in the nerves of your neck, the terrifying visual seen by your eyes, and the screaming you heard in your ears – all of these are the part of the same, and belong to the perception function of your brain mixed with memory, the information input by direct and indirect experiences that your brain forms as an unfavorable feeling about the car
wreck. Every time we touch the painful muscle, we are touching the whole picture.

Sometimes there is a need to 'eliminate other unhappy feelings together, and then "stubborn pain" may be released also. Do you think divorcing your spouse, being laid off by your company after you worked 30 years, or claiming bankruptcy … are not traumatic? These are possibly more painful than muscle aches.