Pain Relief & Safety Too!

You may have heard about the recent removal of the arthritis pain drug Vioxx from the marketplace. 27,000 people are known to have died, had heart attacks or strokes as a direct result of using this drug!! It was finally withdrawn after 4 and a half years of Merck (it's manufacturer) knowing of it's heightened health risks. Complications had resulted in over 200 lawsuits by patients. Pain relief, but no safety.

Pain strikes everyone eventually and will infringe upon your life from time to time. It's not something you're likely to appreciate. If it's only mild your natural tendency will be to ignore it and hope it goes away on it's own. If severe, your immediate urge will be to do anything to make it disappear.

I've had dental pain from a broken abscessing tooth that awakened me (and my wife) in the night with moaning and writhing. I couldn't get enough painkiller and I can't imagine looking any more forward than I did in that episode to having a body part extracted from my life.

Do you struggle with pain issues that at least periodically compromise your quality of life? Does the pain keep you from participating in activities that are important and give your life meaning? You might have been forced to the sidelines in your favorite sport or exercise regimen. Playing with the kids may produce a painful result. Concentration or getting along with others at work may be difficult at times or sleep may get disturbed.

What is the message of the pain you are experiencing? It's telling you there is a problem affecting the function or tissue integrity of some part of your body. Your nervous system is registering this fact and presenting it to your attention for you to seek a solution.

What is the true solution to annoying and sometimes debilitating pain? The best approach is to find and correct the underlying cause. We often do everything else but that.

If you have a thorn (cause) in your foot then perform "minor surgery" to remove it rather than taking anti-inflammatory or pain medication to better cope with the ongoing thorny condition.

If you are eating wrong foods, getting inadequate excercise or enduring excessive stress, then correct these lifestyle causes rather than developing a crisis and then rushing into major surgery such as a quadruple heart bypass or removing sections of diseased colon.

What can happen if you don't correct the cause? The problem may stop yelling for attention eventually by waiting it out, but often it will persist and only get worse. If the pain does leave, it usually does so through adaptive strategies that produce long-term negative consequences. For example, an unresolved relationship conflict that later ends in divorce or an auto accident spinal trauma that nevers receives corrective adjustments and ultimately yields disc damage, joint arthritis and only much later chronic pain.

Maybe you have strolled the aisles of your local grocery or drug store and located some over-the-counter medicines. You might have visited your medical doctor and been given a prescription pain reliever. These two categories kill thousands of unsuspecting people every year through liver, kidney, gastrointestinal or cardiovascular damage.

Why is this approach to pain relief so dangerous? There is no safety because it doesn't address the real cause and instead focuses toxic chemical stress demands upon specific organs. Sometimes the damage occurs rapidly, but more commonly is because of the destructive effects of extended exposure.

Many drugs have now been recalled after people have died and other drugs now considered safe will eventually be exposed as causing unacceptable harm. The cause of your pain is rarely a shortage of these synthetic medications.

Gentle and precise instrument adjustments of the spine have powerful and safe pain-relieving benefits. They clear the nervous system interference caused by even small spinal misalignments that are brought on by life's frequent physical injuries and mental/emotional stresses. Adjustments are not focused upon dangerously masking the symptom, but rather upon removing the underlying cause!

Headaches are often caused by spinal misalignments in the upper neck which bears the weight-bearing and balancing demands of your heavy head. If instead of correcting this condition with precise adjustments it is "subdued" with painkillers, the research now reveals the medication to be the source of a vicious cycle of rebound headaches for many people.

The body by nature regulates and heals itself as long as injury or stress have not interfered with this capacity. Specific chiropractic adjustments help reconnect the neural wiring that has lost it's integrity. Pain relief and safety too!

More on "Pain Relief and Safety Too" in Healing Hints below.

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Visit Dr. Norton's web site. The Norton Chiropractic Wellness Center web site is packed with a vast amount of news, tips, and health information. If you are experiencing pain, or just want more information on your health or how we do business, please stop by!

News & Events

1. We are having a special Christmas-giving C.O.W. (Chiropractic Opportunity Week) during the week of Dec. 6-9 to check your spinal alignment and nervous system function for interference. We are asking for a $20.00 donation to Evangel Home, a shelter for women and children in crisis.

   You will receive a consultation, complete advanced chiropractic evaluation (including our computerized nervous system assessment and any needed x-rays), and a report of the doctor's findings without any obligation. All of these Services are worth up to $240. Call 559-490-9550 ASAP to reserve this special limited appointment or to receive more information.

2. Dr. Norton is available to conduct his "Stress: Who Needs It?" program for your business, church or organization. Check out http://www.drmatthewnorton.com or call 559-490-9550 for more information.

3. Mark your calendar now to attend the first annual Wellness Connections Health and Wellness Fair on Sunday January 30 from 10-6 at the LaRyan Event Center at West and Ashlan. There will be an array of booths hosted by a broad range of alternative healthcare providers as well as interactive demonstrations presented by various speakers, including myself. More information to follow.

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Norton Chiropractic Wellness Center (View Map) at 5670 N. Fresno St. Ste. 102 in Fresno, Calif. Call us at (559) 490-9550 or contact us here.

Healing Hints

1. Make receiving the message of your pain your top priority. What is it trying to tell you about the cause and true solution? Stopping the smoke alarm needs to always be secondary to finding and putting out the fire!
2. Begin with the most conservative and least dangerous healing approaches available. Hint: It should ideally be something other than drugs or surgery unless you've endured a major trauma or have ended up in a life-threatening crisis through inadequate self-care and neglecting help sooner.
3. The World is ROUND? When making your choice of healthcare approaches remember that the world was flat for a long time. The forward thinking visionary individuals who espouse a new truth have nearly always been ridiculed or as I have heard it said "great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Money, power and control delay change and progress.
4. Remember that your nervous system is the lifeline of communication of energy and information throughout your body. It is the director and coordinator of self-regulation and self-healing and is interfered with by injury and stress through the spinal subluxation. Detection and correction of the spinal/nervous system dysfunction will often be the true and optimal solution to your pain or health problem. Call 559-490-9550 to schedule a free consultation.

About Dr. Norton

Dr. Norton unites his passion for learning, teaching, and healing with a compassion for those who are struggling with pain and illness or not performing at their peak. He brings to his work a high level of academic achievement and cutting-edge bodymind research. However, he also brings a deeply caring heart transformed by difficult personal life experiences. Read more.