In many of my previous articles I’ve described the how soft tissue injuries begin. Mainly, injuries begin when the muscle inability to absorb force allows that force to exceed the limits of the area and travels to a localized joint (i.e., neck, knee, shoulder). So, when a force is put into the body greater than the ability of that body is to turn on the muscle fast enough to contract and absorb that force that force will continue traveling until it causes damage….which is usually a joint.
In sports this happens all the time. Most athletes do not understand how to properly train to neurologically turn on the muscles fast enough to absorb force from their competition. As a result, injury occurs.
In motor vehicle collisions (car accidents) the force is usually so over whelming that the body can’t absorb the force even it wanted to. The speed in which the force is delivered is faster than the neurological system can turn on in the body. This leads to injuries such as whiplash, neck sprains, shoulder strains, lower back pain and a whole host of various ailments. The muscles of your body are just like the shock absorbers of your car. They are designed to absorb the incoming force that can potentially cause harm to your body.
Here is an example. Let’s take a 8 year old playing in the back yard. You and I stand there and watch while little Johnny runs around, jumps over things and climbs up the family tree. Once he gets up the tree he has to get down so what does he do? He jumps. He falls to the ground and his feet hit the grass first, his knees bend and he may or may not roll onto the ground. Pretty normal, wouldn’t you say? But what if we put a 60 year old up that tree and had him jump down? If he was trained properly nothing would happen but if he wasn’t trained properly his inability of his muscles to turn on fast enough would not allow his muscles to properly absorb the impact or force of hitting the ground. That force would then travel up with to the knee, the hip or the lower back possibly causing a lot of damage.
What is the difference between the 8 year old and the 60 year old….okay, don’t say 52 years. The difference is that the 8 year old's body is working the way it was designed to. The muscles turn on and turn off properly allowing him to keep that force away from the joints. The neurological system is fast enough to send the signal to the muscle to turn it on fast enough to absorb that force preventing any injury or damage. The 60 year old most likely wouldn’t have the ability to turn on fast enough - having that force produce damage in one or more of his joints.
In an auto accident the force is so fast, so overwhelming that that force causes damage in multiple areas in many cases. When you end up going to your doctor what do they do to help you? They most likely will give you some sort of pill to help with the pain. The problem is that you have damage to the soft tissue and joints which needs more than masking the pain with a chemical.
What I do when I see a patient that has been involved in an auto accident is to find where the origin of the damage is coming from. You see, many times where you point to where the pain is, is not necessarily where the damage is. Many times the area in which you point to signaling to where the pain is, its where the pain ENDED UP! Through special testing I will search for the area where the damage began, helping turn on the neurological system turn on the muscle allowing them to support the damaged area better by slowly reducing the pain. In almost every single case I am able to speed up the healing and relieving pain by 75 to 95% as compared to conventional treatment.
There is no real difference between the professional athletes that I treat and the patients that I see in auto accidents (except for their pay checks) when it comes to healing…a body, is a body, is a body. The difference between myself and conventional treatment is that I first begin to work on the neurological system then the fascia then the muscles providing excessively fast results. Others many treat at the point of pain which in the majority of cases is not where the true damage began.
This treatment also works incredibly well for people who have been suffering with long lasting chronic pain. In fact, we have lawyers send us referrals after the patients have seen many other doctors and therapist and continue to experience pain. Don't give up if you have pain there is an answer and you can be feeling like your old self once again.
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