Do muscles cause most of our pain?

You bet!  Why doesn’t your doctor tell you this?

Because, most doctors specialize in one part of the body.  The different specialists look for answers for your pain inside of their own speciality.  They don’t all go to one big school where everyone learns to look at a body as one unit.  Most doctors learn about the body part that they specialize in.

Suppose you go to a podiatrist, or foot doctor, with chronic pain in your foot.  He or she will look at and treat your foot.

That may not seem surprising to you.  But could it be, perhaps, that the reason your foot or feet hurt is because you have a postural problem?  Happens all the time, but the podiatrist wasn’t trained in postural distortion.  He doesn’t look at your neck or hips as causes of your pain, just your feet.

And the gynecologist, or doctor who is a female specialist?  I heard the story of the woman who went to see her gynecologist with lower abdomen pain, and his diagnosis required surgery.  After the surgery healed, the woman still had the same pain.  She went to a skilled massage therapist who worked on a muscle in her abdomen that attaches to the hip bone and spine.  It is called the psoas muscle.  That relieved the woman’s pain.  She told her gynecologist about this.   He said, “Oh My Gosh!  It never occurred to me that it could have been a muscle!” 

And what about headaches, migraines and other head pain?

Drugs are a quick and (maybe) easy solution to your head pain.  Doctors don’t have time to educate you about how your posture and muscles around your head, neck and shoulders cause headaches or migraines.  Even if they knew, they don’t have the time.  And most of them just don’t know, because they were not taught in medical school.

I’d like to invite you to join me, Kathryn Merrow, The Pain Relief Coach, as we work together to reduce or eliminate the causes of your pain.

“Because You Deserve To Feel Better!”