Natural Pain Relief

Natural pain relief means using treatments and lifestyle strategies that tend to stimulate your body’s inborn healing mechanisms to heal your body itself in order to lessen or get rid of your pain.

Examples of treatments and lifestyle strategies that are effective in relieving pain naturally are chiropractic care, acupuncture, massage therapy, naturopathy, functional medicine, exercising and movement, eating healthy, nutritional supplements, and stress management.

Treatments that provide natural pain relief treat the underlying cause

Most times, treating the underlying cause of your pain makes more sense than covering your pain up with medicine like tylenol or ibuprofen. For example, many headaches are caused by misaligned bones of the spine near the base of the skull. As a result, these misalignments irritate the nerves that travel into the head and cause headaches. In these cases, it would make more sense to get chiropractic adjustments to treat the misaligned bones and nerve tension, which is the underlying cause of these headaches, rather than covering up the symptom with tylenol.

When you correct the underlying cause of your pain, you are more likely to get pain relief and regain your health.

Treatments that provide natural pain relief tend to be more safe and more effective than drugs

In general, natural treatments tend to be safe because they stimulate the body to heal itself. In other words, the body being able to heal itself is a safe and natural process that supports the function and life of the person.

On the other hand, drugs, on the whole, aren’t as safe as natural treatments. Whereas, natural treatments support the natural function of the body, drugs aren’t compatible with the natural chemistry of the body. Therefore, many drugs can be toxic and have many side effects.

Although drugs are needed in cases of acute trauma, acute infections, or end of life care, they fail to address the underlying cause of most health problems which are largely chronic in nature. For example, pain medications like tylenol, ibuprofen, and aspirin can help mask your pain, but fail to solve the underlying cause of your pain.

The following posts explain how you can get natural pain relief and start to live pain free, with more strength, energy, and focus.

Is a Pinched Nerve Causing the Numbness and Tingling in Your Hands?

Is the numbness and tingling in your hands waking you up at night? Not only is your sleep suffering, but you are distracted at work. After using your mouse for awhile, your arm and hands go numb and you have to stand and shake them out. It’s driving you crazy. Could it be a pinched nerve causing the numbness and tingling in your hands? Numbness and tingling in the arms and hands is a common complaint I hear from my patients. The two most common causes I have … [Read more...]

Chiropractic Care for Headaches

Are you getting frequent headaches? Are your headaches pounding and throbbing in the back of your head? Or do your headaches feel like an ice-pick is being driven into your eye? You’re nauseous, moody, tired and you’re going crazy. You’re missing work and missing out on enjoying your family. Chiropractic care for headaches often provides relief so you can get your life back. Headaches are one of the most common … [Read more...]

Chiropractic Care for Sciatica

Do you get pain that is unbearable and shoots down the back of your leg? Or maybe you get constant numbness and tingling that goes down your leg? If so, you may be experiencing what is called sciatica. One thing for sure, it's interfering with some aspect of your life whether that's sleep, sitting, your work, or your favourite sport. In this post, I will discuss what causes sciatica and how chiropractic care for sciatica is often successful in providing relief. What is … [Read more...]