Here’s a multiple-choice question for you.<\/p>\n
What do these things have in common?:<\/p>\n
A runny nose, fever, diarrhea, coughing, sneezing, vomiting, pain, and inflammation (swelling).<\/p>\n
A.\u00a0 They are all physical abnormalities<\/p>\n
B.\u00a0 They are all normal responses to things that irritate the body<\/p>\n
C.\u00a0 The lack of these means that one is healthy<\/p>\n
D.\u00a0 (Insert your own ridiculous wrong answer here)<\/p>\n
The answer is B.\u00a0 These are perfectly healthy responses to things that irritate the body.<\/p>\n
Coughs and runny noses help to get rid of germs and foreign particles that enter our airways. Diarrhea and vomiting help the body to rid itself of germs or other foreign things that enter the digestive system.\u00a0 Fever indicates that your body is working pretty hard to rid itself of certain germs. Pain warns you that there is a problem somewhere in the body.\u00a0 Inflammation forms a natural barrier to stop the spread of an infection and in some cases forms a natural “splint” for injured ligaments, bones, or muscles.<\/p>\n
Healthy people experience these things.\u00a0 In fact, if your body is not<\/em> able<\/em> to do these things, that’s when there is a huge problem at hand!\u00a0 How long would you last without the ability to feel pain?\u00a0 What if you couldn’t cough\/sneeze and you encountered a really dusty dirt road?<\/p>\n The key is to ask WHY you have these symptoms, and not to just automatically counteract them with with a drug.\u00a0 I’m not totally against symptomatic pain relief.\u00a0 When I had a kidney stone 3 years ago, an IV dose of morphine was a very welcomed thing.\u00a0 However, the morphine did not get rid of the kidney stone (nor should I have expected it to). It simply made life livable until I could get rid of the stone.<\/p>\n Some of the treatments we perform in our office are aimed directly at reducing pain, particularly in the back and joints.\u00a0 The goal of chiropractic, though, is to restore proper function to the back, neck, and joints.\u00a0 By doing this, the pain just tends to go away without needing<\/em> to rely on pain-relieving drugs to make life livable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a multiple-choice question for you. What do these things have in common?: A runny nose, fever, diarrhea, coughing, sneezing, vomiting, pain, and inflammation (swelling). A.\u00a0 They are all physical abnormalities B.\u00a0 They are all normal responses to things that irritate the body C.\u00a0 The lack of these means that one is healthy D.\u00a0 (Insert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n