Refrain From Suffering Sprain and Strain
You may have done it lifting a box, swinging a golf club, or grabbing up a
runaway child. You may not know when it happened. You do know you are in pain
and you want it stopped. Your general practitioner diagnoses a "sprain or strain,"
gives you a prescription, and assures you it'll "go away."
Will the pain go away? Will you heal? Why does this same sprain/strain thing
happen every time you exert yourself...and, sometimes, when you don't? Why is
strong medication for pain the only response; is that really the smartest answer?
You wonder what that doctor meant when he said it would "go away"-did he mean
the pain or your health?
Here are some answers about sprain/strain injuries that you may not get elsewhere.
First, there is a specific reason certain parts of your body seem more prone
to injury. Depending on what you do, some parts just work harder and more often
and receive more stress. It's easy to see why the delivery person gets low back
strain or a baseball pitcher could get shoulder injuries. This is not always
true, though. Otherwise, all delivery people would have low back strains and
all pitchers...
The issue centers around right body positioning and proper movement. There
are certainly right and wrong ways to move. But, aside from learning how to
correctly lift or throw, there are other elements of strength and balance which
are even more fundamental, where having something wrong might invite a sprain/strain
injury.
The body's structure was created to be balanced. Your left side matches your
right. Right? Your bones were created equal on both sides to support your two
arms, two legs, two cheeks, etc. The spine specifically, is central to the skeleton,
supports the head, and houses the nerve roots that run information to and from
the brain to tell the body how to work. No muscle, organ, or any other tissue
can move, secrete, absorb, renew itself, or function at all without direction
from the brain by way of the nerve system.
Any imbalance in how the spinal bones line up may interfere with the working
balance of the nerve system. In fact, misalignments of the spinal bones create
nerve pressure to the point that the body is at definite risk of not getting
the information to function and maintain its health. Blood may not flow properly,
muscles may be paralyzed or over stimulated (numbness or cramping) and unable
to move right or protect themselves from moving too much and causing damage.
The damage caused can be a "sprain/strain."
Sprains and strains are painful, but they can heal, eventually. To speed up
healing, and make sure it stays healthy, it is vital to give the muscles and
ligaments back the nerve information they need to protect that area. Chiropractic
deals, specifically, with the proper balance and alignment of the spinal bones.
With the spine balanced, the nerve system has greater capacity to keep the body
functioning correctly. The sprain/strain WILL go away, and you may find better
overall health than ever thought possible. Try our chiropractic strength and
balancing act. Call us now.
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