Chronic pain always has a cause. Your inability to heal, may be “Interference.”
Research has shown that we lose 1.3 cubic cm of gray matter for every year of chronic pain suffering! If you suffer from chronic pain, you’ve likely already seen every provider you thought could help you. They told you they could help you and they tried their hardest to help you feel no pain. The problem is, you are reading this, which probably means they failed.
Chronic pain always has a cause. If attempts have been made to treat the pain, without treating the cause, maybe it’s time you find a doctor who looks at things from a different scientific perspective on healing. (207) 774-6251
A problem can’t be fixed unless you find the cause or the impediment to healing. If the focus of “treatment” is the pain, that’s the equivalent of putting a sticker over the oil light in your car, and expecting the engine to fill itself with oil. The light (pain) is not the problem, it’s the helper, it’s the warning sign of a deeper problem. It’s your body’s way of alerting you to take proper action.
Most pain medications reduce pain and/or inflammation. Failing to address the cause of the inflammation though, leaves the cause of the problem unsolved, and your pain returns. Chronic pain has been shown to take not only chemical tolls on the brain, but physical. Several studies have suggested a decrease in gray matter in the brain in pain-transmitting areas in patients with constant pain.
The Journal of Neuroscience published an article in 2004 that showed that research discovered chronic back pain is associated with a reduction in the brain’s gray matter.
In June 2008 in the journal PAIN, it was suggested that local changes in brain structure occur in patients with chronic pain, and that once the pain subsides, your brain will slowly begin to restore it’s “gray matter”.
If you feel like you’ve been short changed by “pain doctors”, maybe it’s time to find yourself a “cause doctor”. Address the cause, eradicate the pain. Find the interference in healing, correct it, and give your body an optimal chance of healing.