Is Your Doctor Filing The Prescripon?
Advice for Neck Pain and Chronic Condions
The most dangerous doctor, aside
from one that doesn’t care, is the
one that thinks they know it all.
Health care is complex, and delivery
needs to be personalized and
dynamic.
When dealing with complex problems,
such as chronic muscle and
neck pain, the simple one doctor
fix-it-all solution doesn’t work.
Stopping one thing before starting
the next is the most common mistake
that I see people make when
they are suffering and looking for
a solution. If your doctor or treatment
provider tells you to stop
other treatment in the misguided
attempt to control the circumstances
around your recovery, a
red flag should go up for you.
How to Avoid Making
This Common Mistake
You require a health care team
able to help you through the different
stages of your recovery.
Although there are limitations to
your body’s ability to heal, healing
is about removing interference.
When you are struggling to
adapt to a health condition, a trip
to the doctor or hospital may be
necessary. This intervention typically
stops a process that is going
wrong, but it doesn’t help support
your body returning to proper self
-management. Just as when your
house is on fire don’t call your
interior designer, there is a time
and place for emergency care.
Once the emergency is over, it’s
time to consider finding someone
that can help your body heal — an
internal renovation!
Healing Starts with
Better Brain and Body
Communication
Let’s take neck pain as an example.
If you are suffering from a
neck injury, you may begin to experience
severe neck pain. Although
neck pain specialists don’t
exist in Canada yet, there are people
that have different amounts of
knowledge regarding diagnosing
neck problems and treating neck
pain. Treatment centers such as,
The Vital Posture™ Clinic, treats
imbalances in the neck that, if left
untreated, can result in neck pain
and neck discomfort.
The treatment focus should be the
neck. Physical intervention treatments
may start with NUCCA
procedures for instance, and is
augmented by advanced postgraduate
training in Pain Management,
MR imaging, CBCT, and
diplomate training in other less
common chiropractic neck interventions
like Blair, Knee Chest,
HIO/Toggle, & Orthospinology
techniques. The absolute focus
should be on the diagnosis and
treatment of issues associated
with the upper neck. Find a doctor
who can bring together academic
know-how and technical experience
to create a customized solution
for your neck injury. The ultimate
goal as a patient is getting a
good assessment and treatment
procedures to attempt to remove
the impediment that has been
stopping your body from being
able to heal maximally.
Dr. Jeffrey Scholten, NUCCA Chiropractic,
Calgary, Canada, www.vitalposture.com
by Dr. Jeffrey Scholten
50—iPain Living Magazine
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