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.

Refined Sugar Can Cause Osteoarthritis

Do you get regular knee pain, hip pain, or low back pain? Your diet could be the culprit. A new study from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) found that osteoarthritis (OA) could be caused by excess sugar and starch in your diet despite your weight. (1) "We know increased body fat elevates risk, but we haven't appreciated as much how diet itself affects the disease risk," said Tim Griffin, Ph.D. "These findings give us new clues that there can be significant dietary effects … [Read more...]

Ketogenic Diet to Get Rid of Migraines

Another migraine headache. You’re tired of curling up in a ball in a dark room all day. Head pounding, sick to your stomach. Another missed day of work. You’re also tired of taking medications for your migraines and worried about the long term side effects. You have heard about the ketogenic diet from friends who are using it for weight loss. You’re wondering if the ketogenic diet could also help with your migraines. What is the ketogenic diet? The ketogenic diet, or keto diet, is a … [Read more...]

Constipation Relief using Chiropractic Care

You have been backed up and constipated for days. You’re lying in bed rolled up in a ball with stomach pains and low back pain. You have been diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and prescribed laxatives. However, they are causing a lot of bloating and cramping. You even went to emergency and got an enema. That didn’t work. Relief from constipation could be as simple as getting some chiropractic care. I have two stories to share with you. There’s very little HARD scientific … [Read more...]