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.

Why Regular Chiropractic Check-ups are Important for You and Your Family (Part 1)

Do you worry you will end up immobile and in chronic pain like your parents or grandparents? Does your child keep getting injured or sick? Do you want your child to perform optimally in school or in their sport? Do you feel like you are hunched over and have poor posture? Do you feel your balance and strength are failing you? Do you worry about falling? These are important questions to ask yourself in regards to the present and future heath of you and your … [Read more...]

Chiropractic Adjustment for Ankle Sprain Treatment

You rolled your ankle again. Another set back. Back to the physio again for ultrasound and exercises for your ankle sprain treatment. You’re frustrated because you have had many ankle sprains and have spent time and money trying to prevent it from happening again. Is there a way to prevent a recurrent ankle sprain? Is there a way to make your ankle stronger and more stable without taping or bracing it? I am absolutely 100% certain there is. Ankle … [Read more...]

Is Magnesium Deficiency Causing Your Muscle Cramps?

Are you being woken up at night often with muscle cramps in your legs? Or perhaps you get a sudden cramp walking and it stops you in your tracks? Magnesium deficiency is a common nutritional deficiency which can cause muscle cramps. I get a lot of questions from my patients about why they are getting random muscle cramps in their legs. It disturbs their sleep and can become an annoyance. Muscle cramping has a number of causes. Magnesium deficiency would be one of the major causes you … [Read more...]