"To
understand injuries and pain problems and to recover from them more
effectively, both patients and professionals need to stop trying to think of
the body as a machine that breaks down, and start thinking more in terms of
squishy, messy physiology, especially neurology and biochemistry, and even
messier psychology and lifestyle factors. Curve balls like medication side
effects and subtle pathologies are major drivers of pain.4 Exhaustion, emotional
distress,5 smoking,6 and being really
out-of-shape are all more important risk factors for pain than any typical
“misalignment” has ever been. And then there’s the way chronic pain seems to be
a disease in its own right, and the bizarre phenomenon of central sensitization,
basically turning up the “volume” on all pain.7 Pain itself is
much weirder and more useful to understand — its volatility, its inherent
unpredictability8 — than the many mechanical
glitches that supposedly cause it."
Click
on the link below for an in-depth look at the fallacy of over-interpreting
misalignment's cause for pain.
