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.

Five Common Causes of Knee Pain

Do you have a hard time walking long distances because of knee pain? You used to love going for runs, but your knees are too painful to run anymore. Long walks with your spouse, dog, or golf buddies are no longer possible. Maybe your knees even ache randomly at rest? In this article, I will discuss five common causes of knee pain and what I do to treat them. Knee pain affects about 25% of adults and limits a person’s mobility and quality of life. (1, 2, 3, 4) I struggled with numerous … [Read more...]

Lose Weight to Help Your Low Back Pain

That lower back pain on your right side has come back again. It used to be you would pop some tylenol or advil and all would be good. Not anymore. Drugs don’t help you, and if anything, the low back pain you get comes back more frequently. You’re also concerned about the side effects of using pain killers long term. Not only that, but your quality of life has gone downhill. You can’t walk or run anymore because your back and knees ache. It has effected everything from your golf game, … [Read more...]

Is Your Vegan or Vegetarian Diet Causing Your Low Back Pain?

You have felt great for months or even years when you gave up eating meat. You developed some low back pain awhile back and it’s not going away or it keeps coming back. You have tried physiotherapy, massage therapy, chiropractic care, and acupuncture with no luck. Even your yoga practice is longer helping it. In fact, you are no longer able to do intense exercise because you get sore and it takes you longer to recover. Could it be that your lower back pain is due to something more than a … [Read more...]