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Why do you feel pain where you feel pain?
You feel pain or discomfort at certain places because there
is an abnormally large amount of pressure there. That is it.
Unless you are plugged into a socket (electricity) the thing
that hurts in your body is that there is too much pressure
on that thing.
It does not matter if the pressure is caused by misaligned
bones, swelling or anything else that might increase pressure
enough to get your attention. You can check this by pushing
around a boil or pimple. It hurts a bit (or more). If you
lance the boil or pimple and release the pressure, when you
push on it or around it again, the pain will be less or will
be gone because the pressure is reduced or gone.
Same with bones. If you twist a bone and squeeze it while
it is twisted, you will find the bone is tender when you squeeze.
If you remove the twist and do the same squeeze you will find
it is not tender. If you happen to do this test on a bone
and it is tender at the start before you twist it, you can
bet that bone is being twisted abnormally right at that point
by something in the body -- usually a misalignment somewhere
else. If you try to twist it more and the pain goes away you
have actually untwisted it. If you twist it more and it hurts
more, you have added twist in the direction it was already
being twisted.
pic of body injured and then compensating showing the point
of pain months or years later at the compensation
HERE IS THE KEY
From the information above you can determine that the truth
of the matter is that the places you hurt are never where
the misalignment you need corrected is.
The pain or discomfort is at the place to which the body has
shifted the pressure by compensating.
How do we get to that determination?
If your body cannot handle mechanical stress or pressure
on a bone because it is out of position in a way the body
cannot self-correct, it will compensate and shift the pressure
off that bone onto some other part of the body. That "other
part of the body" could be close to the site or it can
be far away from the site of the misalignment the body cannot
self-correct, but the body will certainly shift the mechanical
stress to some other body part so it is off the part that
cannot handle it. (Otherwise you will immediately have a break
or worse -- which sometimes does happen.)
Therefore, when you are in pain and there has not been a
direct impact on your body, the place that hurts is not the
place of the misalignment causing the body so much difficulty.
There might be a misalignment at the point of pain also, but
it is compensatory for something else that set the body off
to begin with. This is why so many treatments such as surgery
and manipulation of the area of pain fail when they fail.
(Remember that when they do not fail they are usually just
shifting the mechanical pressure elsewhere for the body to
deal with later.)
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Thinking it through and experimenting with it, you will
find that when a vertebra moves out of position in a direction
the body cannot self-correct (because there are no muscles
that pull in the direction opposite the direction it moves)
you will also find the body cannot handle the mechanical stress
put on that point in the direction the bone is misaligned.
Since the body cannot handle the mechanical stress put on
the point the it cannot self-correct, the body has to shift
itself around so the mechanical stress will be on a part that
can handle the stress or it will become very unstable.
You can see this instability when someone looses their balance
doing something usually easy to do. Then, after getting the
misalignments their body cannot self-correct realigned, they
can again do the activity without any difficulty. As a matter
of fact, they can usually then do the activity with such ease
that you wonder if they really had a difficulty in the first
place.
This point of being able to do something with so little difficulty
or no difficulty after the vertebrae are realigned is something
you can test with your doctor.
Show him this section and ask him to demonstrate. Unless
you are having big problems you must be prepared to notice
small changes in your body.
The reason is that when your doctor really corrects what
is wrong with your body (any type of doctor, chiropractor,
naturopath, osteopath, and occasionally even a medical doc
or physical therapist) it is not that you will feel good,
it is that your body will work so well there will be nothing
to notice at all.
For many, the fact that when things are well with your body,
it works so well you do not notice it at all, is a new realization.
Most people have been going to doctors so they will feel
good. This leads to things like becoming addicted to drugs
in an attempt to artificially create good feelings.
Reading this here is often the first time many people understand
that a doctor should be getting their body well so it works
fine and that when their body is working well they will have
little attention on the body (like a well running car - you
don't think how it is running).
Reading this is also the first time many people realize what
a trap it is to think that feeling good is what you should
want from a doctor (any kind of doctor). When you think that
way you get caught in the trap of drugs and searching for
something that is not there.
The key is to realize that your body working well is not
the source of feeling good (read on for how to feel good).
When people realize that doctors are supposed to fix their
body so they can get on with life without having to worry
about their body much, they start using doctors to get their
body fixed up rather than to feel good.
If you have pain and the doctor cannot really fix your body
so you do not have pain you can then realize you should see
someone else about getting your body fixed. That is when people
start seeing someone who does Advanced BioStructural Correction™
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