| Each of us will experience muscle or joint pain at | | | | painful area is generally not what caused the pain. |
| some time in our life. Is it arthritis? | | | | Understanding the cause and effect of pain, and the |
| Most of us have no idea what causes pain or why we | | | | roles that muscles play, is something most of us did |
| have pain. This is not something we learned growing | | | | not learn in school. |
| up. We will blame old age or arthritis as the culprit. We | | | | And beside physical treatments such as massage |
| may have no clue that something we are doing, or not | | | | which are occasionally offered, drugs and surgeries |
| doing, may be causing our discomfort. | | | | are routinely offered. |
| What if people knew the true cause of their pain? | | | | Drugs address symptoms and can have side effects. |
| It is exciting to know that almost all joint and muscle | | | | Surgeries may or may not reduce the pain, which is |
| pain, including other pains like sciatica and migraines, is | | | | why fewer back procedures are performed now. |
| caused in full or in part by muscle imbalances. | | | | Surgeries also may have detrimental long term effects. |
| There are natural laws which govern how our bodies | | | | Surgeries may treat the symptom without treating the |
| work. These laws state that if something occurs in | | | | cause. An example would be a hip replacement, when |
| one part of our body, something must happen | | | | the initial cause of the pain was an anatomical leg |
| elsewhere to compensate for the first event. | | | | length difference, which was not addressed. |
| For example, we cannot have one high shoulder and | | | | When we were little, we had perfect balance. |
| the other shoulder in neutral. If one is high, the other | | | | When we grew up, due to school and work and |
| must be low. If one hip is forward, the other must be in | | | | lifestyles, we lost some of our balance. Some of us |
| a more rear position. Not only does this happen, it | | | | lose a lot of it. We have over 600 muscles, and most |
| happens often. | | | | of us only use the same sixty or so. So we develop |
| And when we have pain, almost all health care | | | | pain. |
| practitioners and massage therapists will treat the | | | | We get out of balance and into pain. |
| hurting area. If the pain is new, only a day or two old, | | | | But, what if people understood the causes of their |
| then the cause of the pain may be where the hurt is. | | | | pain? |
| But when the pain is longstanding, the hurting area is | | | | What if they knew simple, self help movements, tools |
| only a symptom. The cause of the pain is elsewhere. | | | | and tips which can easily be implemented by most |
| This is where the natural laws come in. Equal and | | | | people to bring balance back? |
| opposite stresses are occurring. | | | | What if they could reduce or eliminate their arthritis and |
| Most medical practitioners and massage therapists | | | | joint pain? |
| offer treatment for the symptom, even though the | | | | |