Your Pain is "Only the Alarm"
By Ron Harwin

Your pain has gone... but there is a good chance your survival instinct has only buried the problem rather than fixing it. A true and deep healing necessitates reorganization on multiple subtle levels and much of the time our survival mechanism merely hides an injury at the expense of future damage, so that we can run from the Tiger at a moment's notice. This choice has kept the human species alive for a long time but as our life expectancy grows longer the wear and tear from earlier injuries that become hidden can often develop into a serious problem. My understanding of this began when I found myself fixing injuries in my 30-50 year-old patients that clearly originated in their teens and twenties. I asked myself the question "why" for a few years before I began to understand the reason our bodies would make choices that clearly lead to more damage rather than a complete fix.

Your pain or the lack of it is not necessarily indicative of the seriousness of your injury because pain only occurs when enough pain nerves are irritated to cause the alarm to go off, and the number of pain nerves in any one of us is determined solely by our genetics and varies tremendously from one person to another.

As we add in the aging process, which is a process of degeneration itself, we can see that our unstable, buried injuries will naturally experience a greater degree of wear and tear the longer we live. It is because of this reality that we must learn to exercise in very intelligent ways to keep our bodies strong and well organized throughout our lives.

Self-Care is really the only effective solution. My job is to help you heal your injuries as much as your body will allow and guide you in your self-training so that you can be maximally effective in maintaining your health and the quality of your life. Although it sometimes takes some work to achieve this goal, it is my greatest joy to work with a patient only a few times a year to help them maximize their health through their own self-work.