Pain and Human Mechanics

I want to tell about our bodies – Yours and mine. We are different in height, weight and possibly gender. But our common possession is the body’s inner power to heal itself and to be Pain free.

Being pain free doesn’t come from a pill bottle, a brace or in specially designed mattresses, chairs and tools. You don’t even need high tech medicine or special equipment. Being pain free comes from personal commitment and effort.

Pain has one and only one function to alert us to danger. Chronic pain is not telling us that we are frail or that our bodies have lost the ability to cope with the physical demands of life on earth .It is warning us of danger, which is acute motion starvation .Pain is telling what should be happening in our bodies is not happening. No longer do we walk, run or otherwise react to what was one’s a motion – intensive environment. Our system’s are in dysfunctional state.

Dysfunction :

I’ll define dysfunction by providing an example: One of the neck’s functions is to allow the head to turn to the right and left in a 180 degree arc. The inability to do that, and another routine movement, is a dysfunction.

Look at yourself in the Mirror: Does one foot turn out more than the other? Is one hip or shoulder higher than the other? Does one hand appear closer to the mirror? Now stand on one leg, Can you stand more easily on one leg than the other? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, then you are showing dysfunction of the joints or sets of joints.