Adrenal Gland Exhaustion and Ligament Stretch Syndrome

Have you been injured and the injured area never completely healed. In my practice I often get patients in car accidents, work related accidents, and they have lingering chronic pain and discomfort that does not completely resolve. 

Do you often need a cup of coffee to kick start your day? Do you have a lagging cough or a slight cold that just doesn’t go away? If you can’t start the day on your own, or can’t seem to get healthy despite all the rest and medication, chances are you have run down adrenal glands.

Many people suffer from stressed-out, tired adrenal glands, this is a very common problem.

The typical symptoms can include fatigue, headaches, chronic pains and aches, inflammatory conditions (problems that end in "-itis, like bronchitis, dermatitis, colitis, etc.), low blood sugar, rashes, swellings, allergies, asthma, and numerous others. In fact, low adrenals often cause, underlie, or aggravate many health problems.

This may be due to the fact that your adrenal gland, your stress gland is worn out. 

What are the adrenal glands and what do they do?

The adrenal glands (also called suprarenal glands) are pint-size glands that sit atop the kidneys. Despite their size, these organs are very busy regulating many reactions in the body. Most know these glands as our "fight or flight" glands. When we get frightened, these glands produce adrenaline which turbo-charges our muscles to move!

One of the less famous yet most important duties of the adrenal glands is its connection and management of blood sugar regulation. You see, these glands produce cortisol (also known as glucocorticoids) – a hormone which tells the liver to produce more glucose in the liver and release it into the blood stream to increase blood glucose.

The adrenal gland also produces mineralcorticoids which tells the kidney how much water to retain.

There is a special relationship between the adrenal glands and the strength of our ligaments.  

When these important glands are over-worked and stop working properly, problems ensue. Do you have an inflamed joint that doesn’t heal? Do your joints make lots of clicking noises?

We must have properly functioning adrenal glands in order to ensure that our joints and connective tissues are strong and stable.

Chances are that your stress glands are so worn down that they cannot produce enough ‘glue’ to hold your joints together properly.

When your adrenals are run down to this level, we call this condition "ligament stretch syndrome".

This problem gets its name from the effect it often has on the joints. When the adrenal hormones are so low that they leave the joints and ligaments (tissues that hold the bones of joints in place and allow for their movement) undernourished, a person will fail a simple test.

When patients don’t pass the simple muscle test, you know they really have hit the toilet bowl of adrenal gland exhaustion. You know that they have decreased function, and reduced hormone output.

Besides finding any number of the typical low adrenal problems, the ligament stretch patient, tends to have other special symptoms. A "ligament stretch syndrome" patient tends to also have extreme fatigue.

The treatment for this condition is specific. The patient must take the correct adrenal support nutrient for them every waking hour, at first. The adrenals must be "kick-started" in this way. The average patient will complete this hourly dosage in two weeks; some will take longer, and some shorter.

When they finally pass the ligament stretch test, they've graduated up to terrible adrenals! At this point, however, adjustments become painless and more helpful, but more adrenal repair is needed.

I have joint and ligament images, and images of the adrenal gland above the kidney.