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.

Vitamin B12 Deficiency as a Cause for Numbness and Tingling

You’ve been getting numbness and tingling into your hands, legs, or feet. You’ve been to physiotherapists, chiropractors, massage therapists, neurologists, and acupuncturists. Nothing is helping. Could the cause of your numbness and tingling be a vitamin B12 deficiency even though you have been told by your MD your lab results are normal? Vitamin B12 and your nerves Your brain and nerves send electrical signals to all of your body parts so they work properly. … [Read more...]

Can Chiropractic Care Fix You in One Visit?

You’ve had low back pain or neck pain for months. Or maybe you have suffered from headaches for years or an entirely different health issue other than pain. Your friend has recommended you see their chiropractor. You’ve been told by your friend that their chiropractor can perform “miracles”. So you make an appointment and you have an expectation that chiropractic care will fix you in one visit. Is this expectation realistic? I’ve been a Chiropractor since 1995, … [Read more...]

Sleep Deprivation Can Cause Chronic Pain

Do you keep experiencing recurrent low back pain? Or perhaps your neck and shoulder pain keeps acting up? Do you have fibromyalgia? Trips to the chiropractor, physiotherapist, acupuncturist, or massage therapist provide temporary relief but the pain keeps coming back. Frustrated, tired, moody, and pain are taking their toll on you. Could sleep deprivation be one of the causes of your chronic pain? The percent of people in Canada that suffer with chronic pain is … [Read more...]