Heal Your Pain and Live a Quality Life

Pain is a sensation felt by everyone. The nervous system consists of two categories: feeling and function. The feeling aspect (or pain), on average, accounts for about 20% of the nervous system. The other 80% is function. When pain is present, this alters your consciousness and awareness of change whether that's because of adaptation, creation, or a healing process occurring. To heal your pain may take a multi-step approach. 

To start ask yourself these four questions:

1. How did the pain first start?
2. How long have you been feeling the pain? According to John Hopkins Medicine (1), if the pain is longer than 3 months, it’s considered chronic. At this point, it may be best to seek medical and holistic care.
3. What has been helping? Hint: Keep doing this!
4. What is not helping? Put these aspects into awareness to potentially stop or modify until speaking with a practitioner.

These can potentially give you insight into what steps need to be taken next. Through chiropractic and other practitioners’ care, your pain can begin the healing process.

References:

1. Chronic pain. (2021, August 8). Johns Hopkins Medicine, based in Baltimore, Maryland. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/chronic-pain#:~:text=Pain%20can%20be%20acute%2C%20meaning,for%20more%20than%203%20months