At the Chiropractor, shoulder pain when lifting your arm is a very common complaint.
Many of our patients often come to the clinic saying "I don't know what I did, I was just lifting the groceries from the car, when I felt a searing sharp pain in my shoulder.
" These are classic symptoms when tearing the ligaments in the shoulder joint, a process that is not only debilitating and very slow to heal, but also interferes with your daily routine and disturbs your sleep.
Naturally when the pain from this injury interferes with your sleep pattern and your daily life, you very soon find yourself at the chiropractor seeking chronic neck and shoulder pain treatment.
What is a "Chiropractor" and what do they really do? you may ask.
Wikipedia explains it as a treatment technique, a form of alternative medicine that emphasizes diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system.
In other words it deals with finding out exactly how this pain affects you, where it's located and then with the use of a specialized treatment program, over perhaps a longer period, it both heals the injury and also prevents it from reoccurring.
Remember we have to look at what caused the damage in the first place and analyze the condition that made it possible for it to happen.
Perhaps the way you do things or the techniques you use, could be changed a little and thereby preventing it from happening again.
Like lower back pain for instance, if I where to tell you about a friend who constantly lifts heavy boxes on his truck and by doing so experience severe lower back pain.
Would you not suggest to me that he should bend his knees? So by altering the normal pattern of his life style in a small way, he may never experienced lower back pain again.
Treatment also includes exercise and health and lifestyle counseling.
The reason being that it is of no use to alter the technique of the lifting process, if the person never does any exercise, because the body simply isn't strong enough to handle the load placed on the joints.
Regular exercise is of major importance to grow the strength needed to actually handle the loads in the first place.
Finally lets look at another vital element in good health, our diet, yes like everything else it doesn't matter if you have this beautiful and very strong vehicle if the gas you run it on is not the right kind.
In a combustion engine, seals would start to blow, gaskets would leak and eventually the engine would overheat and everything wouldstop working.
Your body is exactly like that.
You need to look at the ingredients that you put into "your engine" and check if they are of the right kind.
Lets assume for this example that we only ever drank Rum or Vodka every day and nothing else.
"That is obvious" you would say and you would be totally right.
Very soon the body would "conk out", however mostly we do give our body the right food, the right fuel, however could we perhaps "turbo Boost" our body for optimal performance simply by including some extra nutrients? I am of course referring to the life-giving, ultra performing vitamins, that our bodies so badly crave and so rarely get because of the depletion of natural trace elements in our soils.
Yes science has found a way to reconstitute our fertilisers for greatest gain, but left out the vital production of trace elements in our produce.
Trace element are needed to allow the absorption into our body of the vital vitamins that our body need and without them (trace elements) the body simply can't take in the vitamins, even though you consume them everyday.
"I eat a lot of vegetables" you might say, exactly and as explained these vegetables grown in less than perfect soils is missing "the vital ingredients" that makes absorption into your body of vitamin possible.
Trace minerals like zinc,manganese,copper,sulfur and selenium.
Finally you need a goodly supply of vitamins, like vitamin C and B complex.
For example without enough vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), you can't make glutathione, a powerful antioxidant enzyme needed in your body to control cholesterol.
Having a fine tune machine (Body) alleviates many possible injuries and prevents perhaps many month of being laid up in bed.
So maybe it time to ask yourself