chronic neck pain – video testimonials

Because of the nature of my practice, I see people whose lives have been severely altered by Chronic Pain.  In some cases, it has all but destroyed their will to live.  They have no quality of life, and all they ever think about is their pain.  People in this situation have actually become their neck (HERE is what I mean by this odd statement).  CHRONIC NECK PAIN had affected every area of these people’s lives.  It’s the nature of problems (adhesions / Microscopic Scar Tissue) in the connective tissue known as FASCIA.

You see, Fascial Adhesions can create CHRONIC PAIN’S PERFECT STORM.  Think about it this way for a moment.  Scar Tissue is up to 1,000 times more pain-sensitive than normal tissue.  Now throw in the fact that in all three of these cases below, the problem was in the Fascia —- a tissue that is arguably the single most pain-sensitive tissue in the body.  Now add into the mix another one of ‘Medicine’s’ dirty little secrets —- Fascia is so thin that it cannot be imaged — even with advanced imaging techniques such as MRI.  And through it all, the various doctors you have seen have looked at you with a blank stare, probably treating you like a “drug-seeker” or telling you it’s all in your head.

Before I saw Deana for the first time yesterday morning, she had been on a ‘contractual’ program to see a chiropractor twice a week for a year.  It had not helped either her pain or the range of motion in her neck.  Judi was in an MVA when I was 2 years old (1969).  She thought that her post-accident neck pain was bad until that day 15 years ago when a tire fell off a trailer, hit her in the head, and knocked her out cold.  She described to me years of living each and every day of her life at a miserable ‘9’ on a pain scale of 1 – 10.  In fact, she told me that since her “tire incident” she has been through therapy 5 different times —- well over 100 total visits — with nothing to show for it (she said that it may have made her worse).  Cara had been dealing with Chronic Neck Pain for a couple of years.  Her MOM finally convinced her to come in and see me.

Tracy shot all of these videos before lunch time yesterday.  Hopefully we will get a video of the gentleman who came from north of Jefferson City to see me yesterday afternoon for long-standing HIP / PIRIFORMIS PAIN.  Hey; it’s just another day in the life.