The Physiology of Pain & Injury
as it Applies to the Human Body
 

BASIC PAIN & INJURY CAUSES AND INFORMATION:

Degeneration- Pain can be characterized as a degenerative condition where the body is attempting to signal its sense of a stressor affecting the health and integrity of the musculo-skeletal system. In some instances, pain can be felt in a muscle tissue wasting situation, including physical disabilities such as paraplegia and/or reflective of a general sedentary lifestyle. Generally, this can be characterized by mineral deficiencies or malabsorption of minerals.

Injury - Direct trauma to the tissues will result in pain. Fascia will constrict signaling a pain response within the affected tissues.

Stress & the Mind/Body Connection - improper nerve signaling to create "overuse syndrome" where often we see muscles firing or spasm/contracture occurring 24/7 - yes, even at night these muscles are firing- particularly true with the jaw joint, called "TMJ."

Repetitive Use Syndrome - will create lactic acid build up in the muscle tissues, particularly if there has been a severe physical trauma, such as an auto accident or sports injury. Many times the "late effects" of the trauma include lymphatic congestion, decreased blood flow , creating a condition of no or very low oxygen, which amplifies and accelerates the lactic acid build inside the muscles.

Abnormalities in Local Electrical Activity - nearly all instances of local musculo/skeletal pain include an abnormally low electrical activity as compared to surroundings tissues from overuse, injuries, and trauma.  Nearly all cases of musculo-skeletal pain can be reversed with proper micro-current treatment to balance the energy for a pain free life.

Nerve Entrapment Syndrome - muscle fibers have tightened, shortened, and in chronic cases turned to fiber within the muscles which trap, pinch, strangle normal nerve activity - this signals a pain or alarm response from the musculo-skeletal system.

Nerve Pain - sometimes an injury to the spine can have far-reaching effects down the arms to the elbows or hands; in the lower body the effects may run down to legs to the feet or knees. This can be characterized as "nerve pain" as there is little muscular involvement or "nerve entrapment" associated with the condition. With combination of corrective chiropractic "BodyBest"^TM adjustments and micro-current treatment, these nerve pain problems respond very well in a short period of time.

RECENT HISTORY AND RESEARCH INVOLVING LOW-LEVEL ELECTRICAL STIMULI FOR TREATING PAIN

The first instruments for therapeutic application were developed and refined in time for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The Olympic Athletes saw profound results in dealing with injury, pain and performance enhancement. The devices became a domain of the elite professional sport and Olympic athletes which continues through today.

In 1990, two German Medical Doctors were researching the physiological aspects of the cell membrane and made a startling discovery. So amazing was their finding that they earned the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1991. The research quantified the benefits of Micro Current therapy and described the physiological processes of why this style of intervention was having such enormous success.

OXYGENATION EFFECTS

With specific micro-current stimuli allows for increased enzymatic activity, thus breaking up any undigested protein clusters that can clog or block lymphatic pathways and blood capillaries. This same effect also "thins out" both the blood as well as the lymph, increasing its viscosity and thus circulatory properties. The electrical stimuli restores a more normal electrical repelling charge to the red blood cells, breaking up any tendency to clump (or Roleau) as seen under special blood-examination microscopes. This process appears to provide extra surface area for the cell to absorb more oxygen from the respiration process and the extra electrical charge appears to enhance this electrical attraction for oxygen uptake. In certain microscopic blood work, a great measure of success in treating long-term, chronic conditions or advanced degenerative disease is the breaking-up of the Roleau in the red blood cells. The balancing of the cells relaxes the body by balancing the autonomic nervous system. This balance is a proper electrical potential to the cell membrane - both inside and immediately outside the cell membrane.

Research shows that the restoration of the normal electrical potential to the cell membrane is the single most important event in the alleviation of chronic pain and tissue dysfunction.

Bringing this to therapy, one treatment will have a positive effect, subsequent treatments will have a cumulative effect as the body returns to more optimal function: there is a relationship between tissue oxygenation and the length of time in therapeutic intervention. The younger, healthier, more vital individual has a greater healing capacity than the elderly, severely arthritically crippled individual.

Zeroing in on pain, 90%+ of the patients I see have dysfunctional muscle tonus creating, at least in part, nerve entrapment, or what I term "nerve entrapment" syndrome. Here the muscle fibers have wrapped and twisted out of place away from their normal, anatomically correct orientation and are trapping, pinching or pressing the nerve askew for the normal orientation or onto adjacent muscle fibers. Occasionally these twisted muscle fibers may be at a sufficiently deep level so as to press the nerve onto a bone. When the muscle fibers wrap and twist or when they become adhered to neighboring muscle layers (through lactic acid buildup) this shortens the natural length, creating anatomical (structural imbalance), range of motion disorders, etc. Pain is the result.

In treatment, our initial aim is to get the patient into a relaxed, responsive mode - kicking in this parasympathetic response mentioned earlier. Here we can access the optimal fashion to effective treat the muscle tissue and then the nerve. Several factors can be noted: the acupuncture connection; structural stress factors; the toxic, fibrous deposits on or between the muscle fibers (geloses, myogeloses, fibrocities, calcium deposits, crystalline deposits, etc); lactic acid buildup; adhesion between muscle layers, restricted range of motion, poor nerve conductivity… once the muscle portion has been adequately addressed, we can then look at the nerve.

Please note that nutritional support is very complimentary to the pain and injury treatment program.

ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL AND CELL DIVISION

One quick last note: when cells divide, the electrical potential or charge inside and outside the cell membrane will drop when it divides. A normal potential is measured at -70millivolts, the dividing cell shows around - 15millivolts of electrical potential. In cancer the cells are stuck at this low potential and the cells begin rapidly dividing.  Apply the proper electrical impulses and guess what? This inappropriate cell division seems to cease.

In closing, you now understand pain and how subtle energetic impulses can open these important access pathways into our cells. There is natural safe methods to bring health into your body with safe, natural, micro-currents that assist the cells to function optimally for excellent health and vitality again.