(Excerpted from Dr. Norton’s soon to be published book: Where Does It Hurt?  Surprising Stories and Transforming Insights for Releasing Pain and Restoring Whole Body Health)

Are you:

• Suffering with pain? 
• Becoming frustrated in your efforts to find relief?
• Dissatisfied with your current diagnosis or treatment?
• Worrying that the underlying cause of your condition is yet to be identified and addressed?

If so, you are far from alone.

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More and more people are suffering from chronic pain. What’s worse is that medication and risky, invasive procedures are frequently the only treatments offered.
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What important responsibilities are you no longer able to carry out due to the extent of your pain? Are you missing days at work? Are you worried that your supervisor is getting impatient with you?

What pleasurable activities have you given up? Can you no longer pick up your own children, garden, or play a sport? How much and how long do you suffer if you attempt to do them?

Entering the Dark Pit of Difficult Return (Ruth’s Story)

Ruth brought her grown daughter Victoria into my office a few months ago. Three years earlier, Victoria had been struck by a car at high speed in her mail- carrier vehicle and was seriously injured. Disabled and living at home, she was now in the midst of a severe pain flare-up. Her medical advisors seemed to have given up on resolving her condition. They’d resorted to managing her pain with strong narcotic medications.

I had spoken at a community workshop sponsored by the National Wellness Foundation on ADHD and Ritalin, which Ruth had attended. During this critical time for Victoria she thought of me and called for an appointment, desperately hoping I could help her daughter.

When I entered the consultation room, Victoria was nearly curled up into a fetal ball in the chair and her mother, sitting by her, had been crying. Victoria made minimal effort to communicate and kept her face down in her hands. Her mother mostly spoke for her.

Just to survive, Victoria was taking extremely high quantities of pain pills, far exceeding the recommended dosages. When I let her know that I’d do my best to help her, she said that she would just as soon die.

With Victoria’s agreement, I proceeded to slowly and carefully evaluate her postural imbalances and areas of excessive muscle contraction and tenderness, as well as conduct various tests to discern altered functioning of her nervous system. This was followed by a computerized assessment of her nervous system disturbances and precise biomechanical x-rays of her neck and lower back to measure misalignments between the vertebrae.

(View applications of this message to your life in Healing Hints below)

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Healing Hints

1. Don’t ignore your pain and simply hope it goes away. Don’t just reach for the pain medication or another beer and see if that makes it disappear. Pain is a critically important message system designed into you to alert you to trouble and push you to seek the cause and a true solution.

2. If your pain is ongoing or recurrent it is related to a chronic blockage and disturbance of function in that area. Rather than seeking to merely relieve your pain, it is essential for you to locate the cause and have your painful blockage released.

3. If you aren’t fully satisfied that your current diagnosis or treatment has adequately addressed the underlying cause of your condition and provided you with a true solution then keep looking. Don’t settle for symptom management alone or a mediocre quality of life. A real solution is frequently possible.

4. Be honest with yourself about the diminishing capacities that are gradually piling up and impacting your quality of life. What are you no longer able to do or do without significant suffering because of your unresolved painful condition? Make a list if necessary to expose your decline to the light of your conscious attention.

5. Since your ongoing pain is a nervous system issue, and since that disturbance is most frequently related to the altered positioning and functioning of your spine secondary to injuries and life stresses, if you have not taken the opportunity to receive a complete chiropractic evaluation, including a computerized nervous system stress assessment and biomechanical x-rays, then now should be that time.

6. Call us today at 559-490-9550 to schedule an appointment or to find out the upcoming dates of Dr. Norton’s Where Does It Hurt program conducted at our Central California office. For more information on our approach and the healing solutions we offer go to: www.DrMatthewNorton.com.

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.