John Iams, "For When Your Pain Remains…"

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Norman Shealy is one of the world’s leading experts in pain management. He was among the first physicians ever to specialize in the resolution of chronic pain.

• All too often, pain is considered something we must deal with.
• We treat it, medicate it and even curse it.
• Yet for most musculoskeletal pain, facilitated patterns of muscle guarding/splinting is the driving force.
• This primal mechanism has seldom been considered.
• Is it possible that billions of dollars are wasted on various therapies/medications/surgeries which might not have been necessary?
• Our economic state of recession would be an ideal time to begin to triage musculoskeletal pain before launching into the typical expenditures which were traditional in the past.
• Pain isn’t as tough to treat and resolve as we’ve been led to believe.
• It’s about reaching it at it’s source and observing the response within seconds of treatment.

Maybe this will lead us to truly know what pain is.

God speed

John