We are so duped by the media and the drug companies trying to get us to use their products.
One class of drugs that is particularly dangerous and that is actually habit forming because it does provide so much short term relief is the NSAIDs. (Non-Steroidal Anti- Inflamatory Drugs)
The more common ones include Mortin, Alleve, Advil, Ibuprofen.
You can’t say enough about how well these drugs will stop your pain – they work great!
You may think your back is hurting and you feel it, experience it - in your back and point to it in your back, but you really feel it and INTERPRET it as pain….up in your brain.
The brain is like the mother board of your computer – your mouse or keyboard doesn’t do the computing / interpreting.
If you unplug your keyboard you’ll notice that nothing you type gets to the computer.
NSAIDs work by interupting (unplugging), the pain nerve pathways into the brain.
No signal = no message sent – you don’t feel it. Period.
If that’s all they did, It would be a good deal –
You should know what else they do for you.
The brain doesn’t only interpret that your back is “hurting”.
It also knows / interprets WHY or what else is going on down there that is making it hurt. Let’s say you tore a disc or other ligament so it is now bleeding inside, swollen and inflamed.
Your brain KNOWS that from the signals it receives.
That information is sent to your brain by the same nerve pathways that say “pain”.
The brain can NOW take proper steps to attempt to start fixing things.
Big Surprise: Yes - the brain is the part that directs the healing – Not the Motrin
The Motrin actually interrupts the signal so that the brain doesn’t even KNOW there is a problem in the first place. Its only purpose is to chemically unplug / interrupt a signal.
And worse…And this is BIG: It also interrupts messages from the brain to the site of the injury.
NSAIDS are not specific - they interrupt all of the signals – the pain signal, the inflamation signal and any possible healing signal.
So you get rid of the pain and the inflammation but the brain doesn’t start the healing process and fix the problem causing the bleeding, inflamation and the pain because it doesn’t know there is one…
Six months… a year later, you still have the same problem and are still taking Motrin because it never healed and still hurts…because you never allowed your brain to find out about the injury.
A better and more effective alternative that someone selling drugs will never tell you is that chiropractic adjustments do not interrupt or “unplug” your nerve pathways but stimulates them to send a better, cleaner signal – up and down the spine.
Bottom line: Pain medication interrupts the healing. Healing is always faster with Chiropractic adjustments.
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