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Those at the country club may call it "tennis
elbow", the "old timers" might say they have a "touch
of rheumatism", but most of us just recognize it as pain in
the shoulder or arm.
It may start as stiffness when we wake up
in the morning and progress to the use of liniment in the morning
and evening with aspirin throughout the day.
The "shawl" muscle across the top
of the shoulder becomes a chy
and we let our head loll all the way back to relieve the tension
. You twist and turn to find the spot where you can recieve relief.
You join the health club and try the sauna and whirlpool. The pain
may radiate into the arm with numbness and tingling developing in
the fingers . Some try fad cures of wearing copper bracelets or
a bag of garlic around the neck - but nothing seems to produce the
relief so earnestly sought. You can;t touch spots on your back that
you used to and it's a real chore to wash your hair. You can't sleep
and you try sedatives, shots, infrared hear, and whatever an acquaintance
, or distant aunt found to be effective.
And all this time there is a cause for the
problem that you are facing. The cause has to do with the musclo-skeletal
system of the body and it's alignment.
When you have a misaligned vertebra in the
mid back through the neck area you often begin having the symptoms
just described.
Surprisingly, many of the people that accept
the Chiropractic solution for low back pain dont seem to draw the
same conclusion when they have other disorders of the musclo-skeletal
system. That numbness in the hands, that tingling of the fingers,
that pain in the elbow is very possibly caused by the problem with
the nerve. The nerve that is serving the finger, hands, and elbow
can be traced right back to the spinal column and in order for that
nerve to get to the spinal column it must pass between the vertebrae
- through a little opening that is just the right size. Unless,
of course, an accident or an accumulation of minor injuries has
caused that vertabraeto misalign. When that happenes, the opening
can be reduced so it is no longer large enough for the nerve. When
the openingis not large enough and there is pressure on the nerve
it cuts down the effectiveness of that nerve just as you wuld see
a kink in a water hose cause a diminuitionin the flow of water.
So many of our patients that have searched
for relief in liniments, polls, and shots, before coming to Chiropractic
say it is like a "miracle". Well indeed there is a miracle
to life and to the healing powers within each body as long as that
body is permitted to function as nature originally intended.
The "miracle" that I'm searching
for is the one that will encourage those persons that start to suffer
from shoulder and arm pain to try Chiropractic first. Health problems
are so much easier to deal with when we don;t let them get a big
"head start on us".
Remember the five most dangerous words are,
"MAYBE IT WILL GO AWAY!"
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