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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – If you’re not scared about chronic pain, you should be.
According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, there are 25 million U.S. adults who suffer from pain every day. That’s 1 out of every 13 Americans.
Chronic pain isn’t going out of style. As technology continues to innovate and sink its sedentary roots into American culture in the twenty-first century, musculoskeletal disease is only going to become more rampant and cause more suffering.
Fortunately, as the health and wellness industry approaches trillions of dollars in sales, consumers are becoming more aware of what it takes to stay healthy and pain-free. The only problem is, they’re looking in all of the wrong places. Society knows how important diet and exercise are. Health and fitness information is widespread across any media outlet. But get hurt, and who should you see?
The primary medical doctor who offers you medications, the orthopedic surgeon who refers you for physical therapy, or the chiropractor to adjust your joints? Should you just rest and hope it goes away or would electronic stimulation, ultrasound, or one of those fancy decompression machines do the trick? Lose trust in all health practitioners and become a victim to WebMD and the rest of the health and disease forums on the internet further confounding your issue.
Talk about a paradox of choice.
Go through the medical merry-go-round enough times, wasting time between diagnoses and doctors, and before you know it, an x-ray or MRI shows that you have osteoarthritis, a torn labrum, or the all-too-popular blown out disc. You think to yourself, “Well how did that happen?”
Here’s a little secret.
There is an extremely common, but never talked about, cause of chronic pain. It is the connecting link between a healthy, fit body that allows you to do what you love well into old age and the structural condition like those mentioned above that will sideline you, starting the downward spiral known as aging. This cause of chronic pain is easily treatable, easily diagnosable, and can prevent a world of hurt. Literally and metaphorically speaking.
You know you have it when you can’t touch your toes any more or you lose mobility somewhere else and you don’t know why.
It’s called adhesion. It’s the connective tissue gunk between your muscles, ligaments, nerves, tendons, and bones of your body that gets laid down anytime your body is over-used and not able to recover. Type, text, or sit too much and watch adhesion snowball into epic magnitude in your forearms, neck, or low back.
Once you have adhesion, you can try stretching to break it or try strengthening to make it a non-issue. If that works, wonderful! If you’ve stretched and strengthened for thirty days and you still have pain, stop trying. There’s no hope with conventional methods then. You can’t floss out a cavity. Time to see a specialist.
Qualified therapists who specialize in the removal of adhesion in order of effectiveness are Manual Adhesion Release providers, Active Release Technique providers, or Graston providers.
A fit, adhesion-free body is one that is able to do any human being task without issue. Fitness includes the ability to squat butt to grass like we used to eliminate waste before there were toilet bowls, the ability to push up from the ground when we fall, and the ability to carry a weight by our sides, perhaps the size of our children or grandchildren.
If you still have fully mobile joints and the ability to do the things that light you up, count your blessings. Maintain your fitness through a well-rounded, cross-training movement program that includes various cardiovascular modalities (running, swimming, biking, rowing, etc.), strength and power movements, and play activities (dancing, zumba, dodgeball, softball, etc.). Use any fitness coach who emphasizes biomechanics for maximum ROI and minimal risk of injury.
By layering on strength on top of mobility, you can build a body that allows you to do the things you love, pain-free. Most importantly, you can avoid the chronic pain that torments so many Americans from focusing on anything but pain from the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep.
Dr. Chris Stepien, D.C., CSCS, CAPP is a licensed Chiropractic Physician and Strength Coach for Heroes Journey. To learn more about how you can finally put an end to your chronic pain, please visit www.barefootrehab.com.
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