Sunday, July 8, 2012

Chronic Pain


Pain

Pain is a very complex entity. It can come in many different shapes and sizes. We have a pill for every type of pain people feel, and yet we are having a pain epidemic. We have pain syndromes, such as fibromyalgia, which translated to layman’s terms means muscle fiber pain. Muscle fiber pain! Pain is so complex we don’t even know what it is. So we call it a fancy name which means muscle fiber pain. Conventional/allopathic treatments options prove this. One common treatment for fibromyalgia is antidepressant medication. Does this make sense?

Pain is multifaceted. It combines three components of health; structure, biochemistry, and emotions. Structure is the bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, etc. making up the frame of the body. Biochemistry is the internal makings of the body; the ways we interact with food and everything in our environment. Finally, emotion is what we think, feel, and love. Emotion is our soul. Pain does not affect only one component of health. It is like a virus, and it infects all components of health.

Chronic pain requires all aspects of health to be addressed. As pain continues and becomes chronic, the emotional and biochemical components become more involved and infinitely more complicated. This is where a knowledgeable practitioner, one who addresses structure, biochemistry, and emotion, is needed. The cause needs to be found, addressed, and ultimately corrected.

How can the cause be found? The key to finding the cause is by having accurate, objective ways of assessment. Applied kinesiology is one assessment tool, when used objectively and scientifically, can accurately assess the structure and give powerful insight into ways to address the biochemistry and emotions. To accurately assess biochemistry a comprehensive history, labs, and physical assessment are all needed to completely understand and accurately treat. Once the body has been assessed in a way which addresses the three components of health, only then can the body begin to heal.

Remember, pain is not a single entity. It affects all aspects of health. It only makes sense to address all aspects of health in order to heal pain. Anyone who has, or is experiencing chronic pain understands how deep chronic pain cuts into all aspects of health. America has a fascination with covering up symptoms. This is evident as we are the most drugged nation in the history of the world. The truth of the matter is people are in pain. People are seeking answers. People are seeking solutions. Isn’t it time to seek out a practitioner who understands this and seeks the cause and real solutions? We don’t need more pills to cover up the pain. We need a means to address, understand, become educated, and eliminate pain. Please seek out doctors who want to understand you as a person, understand your condition, seek real answers, and offer a treatment to heal. Don’t accept treatments to cover symptoms. Take health back into your own hands and demand HEALTH care.

-Dr. Kurt Waples

Monday, July 2, 2012

Structural Emotions

The Interweaving of Emotions

Have you ever experienced a release of emotion and had no idea where it stemmed from? This is a frequent occurrence in my practice. I always understood that emotions are weaved into certain types of trauma, but didn't quite understand how they can be molded into all types of pain, structural issues, mental problems, etc. 

One place on the body which seems to hold a lot of emotion is the cranium. When adjusting the skull emotions can be released. Emotions can be released from any part of the body with almost any type of modality or treatment, but the skull seems to be a powerful epicenter. This does make sense, considering the brain is housed there. Almost all emotion seems to stem from the brain. It would only make sense that our body would compensate emotional overload with a structural change in order to obtain a new state of equilibrium. This compensation is a cranial subluxation.

In today's high tech medicine type world, there is no place for emotions, let alone emotional related structural problems. This is why most of my colleagues have no understanding of the emotional subluxation. An emotional subluxation is a misalignment or structural problem, which will not be 100% corrected until the emotional component has been released or addressed. This requires the body to unwind. Sometimes adjustments will contradict each other. When you take a step back, it makes sense. The body is unpredictable, so doesn't it make sense that it can unwind in an unpredictable way? YES.

Emotions are intertwined into the body. Emotions cut deep and form many layers. Unwind one layer, and there lies many more to be unwound. A perfect example of this emotional interweaving is a trigger point. When releasing a trigger point the pain will radiate, stay in one spot, be dull pain, be stabbing pain, change radiating patterns, move up and and down the body, change frequencies, tingle, go numb, etc. Emotions cut the same way into the body. 

Next time you are visiting your doctor for structural work and have an over abundance of emotions leave your body. Thank your doctor for having the right tools to unwind your body. You are better and more in touch with yourself after each layer removed.

-Dr. Kurt