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By far and away the highest proportion of
painful joints and muscles are personally generated. The
skeleton has been drawn out of alignment by our own muscles.
An incident - that people in good musculo-skeletal health
take in their stride - may have brought the dysfunction to
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Pain is a symptom. It's telling you to get your skeleton
back into alignment. |
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Don't mask the symptom, fix the cause. |
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It’s muscles that pull bones out of alignment. That's the
bad news. The good news is that by doing the right exercises
there's a high likelihood that you can get your bones back
into better alignment. The symptom goes away. You're pain
free. |
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There is a catch. Only you can do this. This
is good news. You don't have to spend a fortune going to
doctors, radiologists, orthopedic specialists and
manipulative therapists. Just start doing the exercises. |
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The more often you do the exercises and the
longer you do them for the quicker you'll get your skeleton
back into better alignment and pain free. |
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For 80% of people with lower back pain,
there's an 80% chance that they can get themselves back to
80% of 'good nick' in 80 days. |
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When it comes to lower back, neck, hip and
knee pain, the cause of the pain is rarely at the site of
the pain. This means therapists who are only interested in
imaging and 'attacking' the site of the pain have missed the
point. Just keep doing the exercises. |
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Manipulative therapy may speed up the rehab process
but does not take the place of the exercises you need to do for
yourself. |
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If you’re not getting stronger you’re getting weaker. |
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If you’re not getting looser you’re getting tighter. |
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If you've suffered a traumatic incident, manipulative
therapy will be helpful in restoring poor function to good.
(These days some football clubs have 24 hour rehab -
continuous massage, heat, ice, stretching ...) But don't
forget a regular, systematic and intensive strength and
flexibility training program to go with it. |
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If, like most people with joint and muscle pain, your own
muscles have taken bones out of alignment, then manipulative
therapy will take second place to the exercises you need to
do to square yourself up. |
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Trauma excepted, only on the rarest of
occasions is joint and muscle pain caused by a lack of
rubbing, crunching, heating, vibrating, doping or surgery. |
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Primary heath care for personally-generated
musculo-skeletal dysfunction begins in the gym. Ask your
fitness practitioner for a set of exercises that will square
your body up. There is a high likelihood your doctor will
not know where to look for the underlying cause of your
pain, let alone prescribe a suite of exercises to fix the
problem. |
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You can guess what someone earning 50 grand
for an afternoon's work is going to recommend to relieve
your pain. |
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The X-ray and MRI are limp and useless tools
for diagnosing the cause of your pain. All they tell you is
'what is' not what's cause 'what is'. What you need is a
clinical diagnostic
postural assessment of your posture and if you've
started doing the exercises you'll know which exercises you
find difficult to do. You'll know which muscles are tight.
That in itself is a clinical diagnostic postural assessment.
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Form (good skeletal alignment) follows function
(the ability to do the exercises). When the function is
good - ie you're able to do the exercises with relative
ease, you'll know that form (skeletal alignment) is good.
Pain, the symptom of poor skeletal alignment will have gone. |
