WHY NOT JUST TAKE PAIN KILLERS FOR JOINT PAINS?
When a joint is not functioning correctly (e.g. poor posture, trauma, sports injuries etc.) there can be associated pain. Pain is not the actual problem, pain is your bodies way of telling you that there is a problem. So when you next take pain killers the question to ask yourself is this Am I solving the problem, or am I just stopping the important nerve signal message that tells me something is wrong, from reaching my brain? Admittedly pain killers can help with the pain, indeed we have all taken them at some point in our lives. However pain killers will not magically make the joint work properly again, therefore not necessarily solving the problem which is the cause of the pain, they suppress the symptoms. In this instance chiropractic treatment would be aimed at restoring the correct joint function. This would therefore be removing the actual problem that caused the pain in the first place and by removing the problem they would be removing the pain too. An example: When the warning
