A mother of
two young children with chronic low back pain is involved in a motor vehicle
accident that makes her low back pain worse!
For months she has been in and out of doctor’s offices,
physiotherapists, and massage therapist with no real long lasting relief. Her x-rays and MRI report show that she is
suffering with a bulged disc. Her pain
is in her back, hip and down her leg making every day day-to-day activities
(even sleeping!) difficult and nearly unbearable. She finally decides that it is time to try
something different . . .
Like most
people, she came to me wanting a magic wand to tap her spine to make her pain
go away. Unfortunately, it rarely works
that way. In her first couple weeks of
chiropractic adjustments, specifically Torque Release Technique adjustments,
she wasn’t sure if she was feeling much better as the changes to her perception
were marginal. Then, as if overnight,
her pain in her leg began to regress and disappeared completely. The pain in her spine was not noticeable
during the day and was only felt with pressure. And that too went away! After just a couple of months she is now
living without low back pain or leg pain.
She went from desperation and skepticism to thankfulness and believing.
What
happened? Can it happen to you too?
Torque
Release Technique or TRT is a very gentle style of chiropractic
adjustments. Gentle but extremely
powerful and effective. TRT adjustments
focus on releasing primary points of tension on the Central Nervous System
rather than focusing on secondary or tertiary points.
When you are
exposed to strong physical, chemical and mental emotional stresses over a
lifetime, the body undergoes natural stress responses. Healthy individual will go in and out of
stress responses as they sense, respond, learn and adapt to their
environment. With strong and prolonged
stimuli the stress response can get stuck.
A stuck stress response increases the tension on the central nervous system. To alleviate that tension, the body creates
postural faults, such as a high hip or shoulder, rotated pelvis and forward head
carriage as a way to dissipate the tension.
These postural faults lead to fatigue and increased wear and tear on the
spine joints and discs. They are the
secondary and tertiary points of tension on the spine and lead to early and
sometime permanent degenerative changes.
All those postural faults and degenerative changes can cause discs to
bulge (even herniate) and really, really hurt.
Reacting and
treating the spinal degenerative changes in the joints and discs will likely
provide relief, especially in the beginning of a treatment protocols. Often times a plateau is reached. Where once great relief was felt with
treatment, only partial and temporary relief is felt after each treatment. Have you ever wondered why? It is likely that the treatments were
targeting only the secondary and tertiary points of tension and not the primary
points. This explains why relief is felt
in the beginning but now no longer provides the same amount of relief.
Torque
Release Technique specializes in identifying the primary points of tension
thereby rendering a greater, longer and lasting relief from pain all without manual
or much force to spine at all. It really
is quite amazing and impressive how subtle an adjustment can be and yet provide
such astonishing relief!
If you are
suffering with chronic pain and you’ve tried everybody this side of the
Mississippi, maybe try Torque Release Technique before you give up all hope
that the pain will never ever go away.
Dr. Vera
Baziuk
Chiropractor,
specializing in Torque Release Technique
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