‘Peeling the Onion’ - Uncovering ‘why’ patients experience Pain, Inflammation & Chronic Symptoms

Symptoms of Pain, or ‘dis-ease’ represents your bodies attempts to heal.

Whether this is from an accident or injury, a poor diet, poor ergonomics or relentless stresses in your personal & professional life, your body was originally designed to ‘heal itself’

When you were younger you may have noticed that you could ‘walk it out’, ‘sleep it off’ or ignore it long enough that the pain, or symptom, would go away.

Over the years, habits, dietary choices, recreational and sporting activities, raising families, work schedules, life losses, may leave your body less able to cope with the task of healing itself;

Maybe your body is too fatigued, stressed and/or, commonly, not educated to know ‘what, or how’, to proceed in order to care & manage itself.

Common examples of patients struggles are questions such as ‘Which specific exercises, diets, supplements/herbs, or tests may help me? “What sequence do I perform to get results?’ ‘ Do I need medications, surgery or expensive proceedures?’ ‘ Am I too old to benefit from any kind of care & intervention?’ “ I am too overwhelmed by information online (‘dr Google’/social media), about ‘this and that symptom/condition’ and I am unclear on what is going on, and where to start”

Don’t worry, this are normal rational questions. We can give you Clarity.

Most people were not told how to care & develop resilience in their spines, limbs, digestion & elimination, sleep & wake cycles. Most people are not educated in how to manage their energy production and repletion, managing their hormones which control cortisol & blood sugar, understanding of what inflames the body, understanding the link between inflammation and common symptoms such as anxiety/depression, indigestion, brain fog, allergies and aches and pains.

Think about it…..your high school gym teacher got you to run a mile or 2, do sit-ups & press-ups, maybe even squats and taught you a couple of sports to play, but didnt tell you how to care for your spine, feet, knees, hips, shoulders, elbows, wrists or fingers. Nobody taught you about digestion, assimilation, elimination, or how to make & recover energy to make hormones to give you energy & sex drive. Stress management was barely mentioned, and diet was the old food pyramid - which was to some arguably more nutritious if turned upside down for some!

Think about it, in your teen-sporting adventures, alot of youngsters get instructed to take over the counter Alleve & ibuprofen, carbohydrate load and drink Gatoraid - hardly sound nutritional & dietary advice -which is especially troublesome, as we now know Alleve/ibuprofen/aspirin/tylenol’s negative effects on joint and vascular health if taken over long periods of time.

When you come in to see us, we look beyond your symptoms to see what could be contributing to why you have symptoms, such as pain, indigestion, low energy, poor sleep, poor mental and physical performance - that keep coming back, and bothering you.

Common examples of questions we get asked: Why do I have inflammation that won’t go away?; Why do I have sugar cravings?; Why am I are fatigued?; Why can’t I sleep?; Why my headaches won’t go away?; Why I cannot digest well?; Why do I keep belching?; Why can’t I have ‘good’ bowel movements?; Why do my muscles ache all the time?; Why do I have brain fog?; Why do I have balance issues?; Why do I have on-going back pain? Shoulder Pain? Knee pain?; Why do I have on-going concussion symptoms ? (dizziness?, headaches?; light sensitivities?, brain fog?, nausea?)……..the list goes on.

We help you to see beyond your symptoms.

We perform your INITIAL HISTORY.

By taking a detailed history, we are able to uncover many of the ‘signposts’ that may have significant impacts on your health over your lifetime, which guide us on how to proceed, which exams to perform, so we don’t waste time & resources on wild goose chases.

We then perform INITIAL EXAMS: your functional neuromusculoskeletal exams; extremity & gait exams, your initial functional/nutritional exams; your lab & imaging testing.

Once your initial exams are completed, we build you an initial roadmap of how you can get beyond the symptoms….resolving pain, inflammation and other symptoms, so that you don’t just ‘feel better’. but that you are able to make lasting change, and begin to enjoy life a little more without chronic inflammation, pain or other symptoms.

As you complete treatment cycles, we get to ‘deeper layers of the onion’ which, as they are addressed, help you to enjoy a more fuller life…..which we then help you maintain, developing a maintenance cycle that is personalized just for you.

If you, or someone you know, is suffering from pain and discomfort, ongoing inflammation or symptoms that won’t go away, have them call us & get evaluated & examined……nine times out of ten, we can help!

Cheers.