Pain and Painkillers – Why They Shouldn’t Be Mixed
You know that feeling when you get in your car, start it up, and glance down at the dash only to see the “Check Engine” light on? What does it mean to you?
Pain is your body’s “Check Engine” light. A better warning title for us would be “Check for Dysfunction”. This pain is your body’s built in alarm system. You have an electrical pathway of nerves throughout your entire body (so dense that not one cell in your body is farther than 3 nanometers away from a nerve!) In current research it is learned that our pain receptors -the things in our body that acknowledge pain- make up only 10% of all of those nerves. What this means is that the back pain you are feeling right now, or the aches you may feel after a slip is probably worse than you think.Read More