March 2005 Newsletter
Is your arthritis medication just masking the problem?
In fact, many are not only hiding the problem, but they may be causing new problems you hadn’t even expected. If you’re controlling your arthritis with medication, you could be setting yourself up for heart attacks, stomach bleeding, or kidney failure in the future. Many of you already know this by now, but do you know there is an alternative? We’ve been helping our patients out for years with Chiropractic and Acupuncture. If you read this study on acupuncture and knee pain, you’d see just how much difference it can make, and it’s not just for the knees.
The reality is, most of us have come to accept the idea that arthritis is something that happens with age. We have been told that our joints will break down and fall apart, that it’s as inevitable as time.
It’s a lie.
Yes, I’m here to tell you, arthritis is preventable, reversible, and treatable, all without drugs.
Imagine if you will, what would happen if you tried walking on the side of your foot for a day. You’re foot would probably ache, since it wasn’t designed to be used in such a way. Imagine if you did it for a week, or a year, or ten years?
The joints of your body are designed to work with an easy grace when aligned properly. When they’re out alignment they begin to wear. Pain is a signal, a signal telling you something is wrong. Medications are often just masking that signal, allowing you to ignore what is really going on.
Think about your car. If you heard a loud noise coming from the engine, you wouldn’t just turn up the volume on the radio. If your car pulled hard to the right, you wouldn’t just ignore it until your tires wore off, you’d get it fixed, right? In fact, the average American spends two thousand dollars ($2000!) a year in car maintenance. A car will eventually be replaced, but as much as we’d like, you can’t trade in your old body for the newest model.
Dentists have done remarkable job of educating us from an early age about the value of keeping our teeth in good condition. Most people brush regularly and see their dentist for check ups. People don’t assume that cavities are a normal part of aging, neither is arthritis. And even if you’ve had pain for years, decades even, it’s never too late.
We’ve been helping our patients find healing from arthritis for years now, unfortunately the scientific literature is just now catching up.
Don’t believe the lie, you don’t have to suffer with arthritis pain and you don’t have to take drugs to do it. You’ve already done what hasn’t worked, now try another way. Please give us a call.
Sincerely,
Christopher Tusken, D.C.
