Help Eliminate Long-term Pain = HELP Yourself! Get out of your sinking boat onto solid land.

We were all in the same sinking boat.

I found a new better boat that is not sinking and headed to solid land.

I ain't never getting in that sinking boat again now that I know better.

Some of this is philosophical, logical, reality-based, evidence-based and science-based. You have to escape your present situation and start a new journey on your own. Your path will be unique but very similar to everyone's else's. But understand no one can help your without you helping yourself.

Our long-term pain is the result of our chaotic lives hitting us from all sides.

Our long-term pain is being fueled by the same old things, confused lives in the fast lanes.

It is the result of life's stresses, strains and battles being placed on our mind, body and spirit.

Our armor is tattered and scarred. Our muscles are our armor and we are all wounded.

All long-term pain only lives in muscles and are not dangerous but will drive you insane if you do not believe this natural law of how the body works.

Life is getting in the way of your needs, so we overlook our self care by putting ourselves on the back burner.

Life’s lessons are confusing and some are difficult to understand, we do not know who to believe. All the prophets look the same be they true, false or evil.

Steps:

1. Don’t believe me your doctors and even yourself.

2. Believe only what your body is asking you to do.

3. Therapy is all about pampering; so think spa, hot tub, massage, retreat, relax, slow lanes or pit stops, affirmations, nicely saying no, saying yes to yourself, letting go, forgiveness, halt saving other people from themselves. etc.

4. All will need yoga, magnesium, hands-on specialist.

5. There are only 3 ways to reverse the damages in muscles and they all require lots of manual labor: a. Hands-on external tissue work. b. In the muscle with thin stimulative needling c. In the muscle with hypodermic stimulative needling.

6. Some will need needling, some will need lots of needling.

7. Some will not restore or helped without needling.

8. All needling is not equal. All who use needles are not equal. Some a superior and some need to go into a different career.

9. For some this journey will be a few months, a few years or life-long. You must not stop.

Muscle pain truths (draft from 3.1.15):

1. All pain that is unresolved 8 weeks after an injury should be considered within muscles and connective tissues until proven. This must be proven with the application of therapy aimed at these tissues. Therapy is the only practical and reasonable way to help uncover the exact cause(s) of pain.
2. Mother Nature heals all injuries wounds like a tear in a body part ie meniscus, disc, cartilage, labrum happens automatically on their own without human interventions.
3. All “pain” that can NOT be readily found on a scan, X-ray or with modern technology has to be assumed to be in the muscles and connective tissues.
4. The definition of pain is wrong and even the concept of pain is misinterpreted improperly. “Pain” is really an information signal from YOUR body to YOU to DO something to protect YOURSELF from harm. Pain is like an itch, how can you find an itch on a scanner? An itch is essentially invisible! Anything that is invisible can easily be forgotten, overlooked, denied, refuted, disavowed, marginalized and improperly treated.
5. All “pain” has a pathologically significant cause that should be uncovered to be effectively addressed or treated.
6. [[[ All pain has a pathologically significant cause that should be uncovered to be effectively addressed,  treated or cured.
7. All pain that can NOT be readily found in the blood, on a scan, in an X-ray or other equipment used in modern technology by deduction must be in the muscles and connective tissues.
8. All pain that is thought to be in the muscles and connective tissues or myofascial tissues must be effectively treated until proven otherwise.
9. All pain that is not effectively treated at the primary source should be considered poor medicine, unethical, disrespectful and betrays the human spirit.
10. All "pain" types must have a cause, that cause must be effectively treated until the patient is satisfied or the pain is resolved.
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12. The “pain” in muscles and connective tissues can not be removed, rearranged repaired or fixed in the operating room. So no surgery for the pain in the muscles!!
13. The “pain” in muscles and connective tissues usually does not respond very well to pain medications.
14. The “pain” in muscles and connective tissues is called Myofascial (MF) Pain.
15. The “pain” in muscles and connective tissues is so small that it can not even be seen under the microscope. We now can see changes under the electron microscope but we are not using this in the office.
16. Invisible Pain, [The pain in muscles and connective tissues or MF pain] should be treated with the full force of all the hands-on and needling myofascial release options until proven otherwise. MF pain can lead to spreading of this pain into adjacent tissues and “metastasize” into distant parts of the body. In more insidious cases the pain can devolve the intracellular structures even the DNA resulting into a Centralization syndrome called Spinal Segmental Sensitization.
17. If MF pain is left untreated will devolve the muscle cells and lead to many problems we think are primary, but are due to delays in recognizing and delays in treatments; Degenerative Joint Diseases, vertebral disc imaging abnormalities, X- ray joint space abnormalities, CRPS, RSD, TN, TOS, CTS, IBS, Migraines, pelvic pain syndromes, psychosocial, weakness, imbalance, vertigo, falls, disability and PTSD.
18. All pain types must have a cause, that cause must be effectively treated until the patient is satisfied or the pain is resolved.
19. All “pain” has a pathologically significant cause that should be uncovered to be effectively addressed,  treated or cured.
20. All “pain” that can NOT be readily found in the blood, on a scan, in an X-ray or other equipment used in modern technology by deduction must be in the muscles and connective tissues.
21. All “pain” that is thought to be in the muscles and connective tissues or myofascial tissues must be effectively treated until proven otherwise.
22. All “pain” that is not effectively treated at the primary source should be considered poor medicine, unethical, disrespectful and betrays the human spirit.
23. All "pain" types must have a cause, that cause must be effectively treated until the patient is satisfied or the pain is resolved.