Philosophy
How any therapeutic clinic is run depends on the philosophy of the therapist regarding the client, health, the health system, and the therapists own role in your care. The following is a brief outline of the philosophy of the Natural Pain management Clinic.
Medical Profession
Brian views the Medical Profession as the centre of medical care. Whenever you experience a new pain or new set of symptoms, your first point of call should be your General Practitioner (Family Doctor). In a small percentage of cases, what appears to be muscule or joint pain can be caused by a more sinister pathology that needs urgent medical attention. Your doctor will conduct an examination to find the cause of your complaint. In some cases, if the exact cause can not be pinpointed, the doctor will make whatever investigations (s)he deems necessary to eliminate serious medical conditions as the cause of your problem.
If deemed necessary, you may be referred to a specialist within the health system for further investigations into your condition.
If you have a long standing condition, you should have a regular check-up with your treating physician to ensure there are no new factors involved in your condition or new treatment option available to you.
Also, seek medical advice if there is a change in the intensity, frequency or duration of you symptoms, or if any new symptoms occur alongside the existing ones.
The Natural Pain Management Clinic reserves the right to refuse to treat any clients that have not previously sought medical advice regarding the nature of their condition.
Health
When healthy, your body is very good at maintaining a state of health. Countless control systems in your body are working away at maintaining the internal environment and maintaining your cells and tissues in a healthy state.
Your immune system is constantly breaking down foreign particles in your body and destroying damaged or faulty cells and unwanted bacteria and viruses.
If a virus happens to get through your defence systems and make you sick, your body greatly multiplies its efforts to identify and eliminate all the virus strands responsible for your illness. Once it has done so, it keeps a blueprint of the virus so it can respond quickly and efficiently should that same virus try to attack you again.
Part of your body's efforts to increase the fighting power of the immune system when under attack is to increase body temperature. This increases the rate of chemical reactions that can take place in the body. Occasionally, temperature can increase too high, and the result is damage or death. The systems designed to fight off infections are amazing in their intricacies and greatly increase our survival chances when we fall ill, but the systems are not perfect, and they can cause problems of their own.
Your muscles and joints also have a vast range of processes that maintain them in working order. When they are damaged, our body sets about healing the injury and takes many steps to Just like the body's temperature rising too high, this protective system can also go wrong on occasions.
When you tear a muscle, tendon or ligament, or damage a joint the body goes about stopping the bleeding and rebuilding the injured area by laying down connective tissue. When we do injure ourselves, pain sensation is often increased as a way of warning us when we risk further damaging an already injured area. We may assume an altered posture, change the way we move or contract muscles to brace a body part to protect the area from muscular contraction or stretching that may increase injury. The altered posture, movement or protective spasms often persist long after we have healed the initial injury, and the body looses touch with the way it should be functioning – fluid and pain free. Instead, the body continues to move if faulty ways, maintain protective spasming when it is no longer required, and continues to send amplified signals of pain when there is no benefit to do so.
NB: The treatments offered at the Natural Pain Management Clinic are not meant as a replacement for regular medical advice. If you have any doubts over the nature of your condition please contact a medical practitioner.