If your computer contracts a virus, would you remove the
outer casing and pour a cup of water into the electronic circuits? No, you say?
How ridiculous, you say? What about setting your computer on fire? I can guarantee
the virus will stop messing up the computer after it has burned to a crisp. There
is a procedure being done in “pain management” clinics that is just as
ridiculous. Patients who being treated for low back pain are having tiny,
sensitive nerve endings burned. Imagine being seared by a branding iron. Now
imagine that someone has come up with a tiny tool that bypasses protective
skin, muscle, and connective tissue, stabs into delicate nerve tissue, and
cauterizes it. In case you didn’t run out of the pain clinic screaming at the
first mention of burning nerves, please allow me to help you out with some
solid reasoning.
The first reason to avoid nerve cauterization is that nerves
do so much more than just report pain. By deadening nerves, you have effectively
shut down your body’s method of proprioception (the sensation of the position
of your body), sense of balance that relies on messages about joint position,
and signals about the range of motion capabilities of the joint effected. This
means that you are likely to abuse the already compromised areas of your spine
because it can’t tell you to stop a certain harmful movement; you have killed
the method of communication.
The second reason to walk out of any office that suggests
nerve cauterization is that, besides the fact that killing nerves does not fix
your problem, the nerves grow back.
Sometimes, scar tissue builds up, too, compounding your original problem. Your
body needs nerves; so badly, in fact, that when you kill them, they grow back.
Most people who burn their spinal nerves have it done again…and again. And the
pain comes back with the nerve endings, by the way.
The third reason to avoid this procedure,
in case you need a third reason, is something called sensitization. The more
you poke a sore spot, the more it hurts. A keyed up nervous system will often
send more, stronger pain signals to your brain over time, if you never take
care of the root problem. Trust me when I say nerves are not the problem.
Nerves are the highly sensitive communication pathway for EVERYTHING your body
does. The problem causing back pain can be anything from a broken bone to
strained/sprained muscles and ligaments. Very often the problem is what
chiropractors call subluxation, which is a simple (and sometimes painful)
misalignment and fixation of spinal joints, causing inflammation and pressure
on nerves. To fix this problem, do not remove the nerves, remove the pressure.
Get adjusted at your chiropractor’s office.
