How couldthis help me?
It has been estimated that up to 80% of the pain complaints that send people to their physician’s office are myofascial or musculoskeletalin origin. Unfortunately, mainstream medicine, in its current incarnation focuses almost exclusively on surgery and pharmaceutical interventions. Manual medicine has become rare, even among Osteopathic physicians. In general, drugs can suppress symptoms, but they seldom address the causes of myofascialpain. Surgery can correct a variety of structural issues, but is invasive, expensive, and the changes are permanent. Once you have been cut, you can’t be ‘un-cut’.Many popular surgical procedures for pain issues have notoriously poor track records. Failed surgery for back pain is so common that it has its own name, ‘Failed Back Surgery Syndrome’ . Carpal tunnel surgeryand heel spurremoval are alsoexamples ofcommonprocedures that often fail to relieve the symptoms that promptedthem. These procedures are often necessary, but due to a lack of viable option
