Pain is a warning cry. 

Your body wants you to know that something is wrong, and it wants your help to stop it.

Your body probably was tolerant for a long, long time while you did things to aggravate it.  But there comes a time when a body says, “Enough!  Stop hurting me and let’s get back on the road to recovery already!”

There are several things you can do to begin to reduce your pain.

• Consider getting a professional therapeutic massage.  Seek a massage therapist who is familiar with pain syndromes.  Get someone who will work where the cause of your pain is, and not just where the symptom (the pain) is.
• Start a stretching program to loosen areas of muscle tightness in the front of your body.  What?!  Your pain is in the back of your body?  Yes, I’m sure it is.  But the muscles in the front of your body are causing your poor back to be overstretched.
• Improve the quality of your diet and drink lots of water.  Bodies need nutritional support and muscles need to be well hydrated to function their best.  If you eat lots of water-filled fruits and vegetables, that counts toward your water intake, too.  In fact, if you eat lots of fruits and veggies, you are improving your diet already.

Bodies want to be well and feel good.

Sometimes they just need a little tweak.  They need someone to massage a tight muscle, or point out a situation which is causing pain. 

A wallet in a man’s back pocket, for instance, causes back pain because every time he sits, the wallet causes pressure on one side of his low back.  Just on one side, so that little wallet creates a twist in his spine, over and over and over again.  Eventually his body says, “Whoa!  This isn’t working for me anymore!”

Let’s work together to work out your pain. 

“Because You Deserve To Feel Better!”

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!”