How to Make Your Chronic Pain Your Best
How to Make Your Chronic Pain Your Best Friend
The most important subject we can talk about … that’s your health.
Time-tested principles, proven strategies and best-kept secrets That thousands of wellness doctors use for themselves and their families.
Do you know? Every 30 seconds in the United States, someone files for bankruptcy as a result of the treatment they receive for a serious health problem? -- according to researchers at Harvard University
Do you know? That’s over 50% of all personal bankruptcy filings affecting over two million Americans every year. -- researchers at Harvard University
Do you know? “…three-quarters of the medically bankrupt had health insurance at the time of their illness. ” -- researchers at Harvard University
“Nobody’s safe. ” -- Elizabeth Warren a law professor at Harvard University
Inconvenient Truths of Health Care “America is in serious financial trouble. ” -- David Walker U. S. Comptroller General (America’s top accountant)
Inconvenient Truths of Health Care “America and Americans are going bankrupt due to health care … or dare I say – lack of caring for our health. ” -- Discover Wellness, How Staying Health Can Make You Rich
The American Lifestyle • Pain = stop exercising + gain weight + poor posture + unhealthy thinking + poor habits
The American Lifestyle Depression Elevated Cholesterol High Blood Pressure Increased Risk of Preventable Diseases OBESITY Cancer Heart Disease Stress Related Conditions Diabetes … And Much More
The American Lifestyle The cycle continues… • Increased Pain = increased weight gain + unhealthy posture + depressed thinking + destructive habits.
The American Lifestyle Are You Living Sick?
America Spends $2 trillion per year on health care … really… sick care.
America Spends More than 15% of every dollar spent in America … goes toward health care
America Spends More than 70% of our health care Dollars treating preventative lifestyle-related chronic diseases.
America Spends Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Obesity, Stress Related Conditions, Chronic Pain and Adverse Drug Reactions The Seven Conditions causing America’s #1 crisis
America Spends $6, 280 Each and every man, woman and child spends per year on medical care.
America Spends • If you and your children didn’t spend $6, 280 each on health care last year, – that means your neighbors and coworkers spent your share and you still paid for it. – A family of four = $25, 120 per year
Now, If you’re thinking to yourself… I’m not spending that much on health care – this isn’t my problem… why should I care? I’m healthy, I feel good, look good, my family is healthy
Think for a moment… • Starbucks spends more money on health insurance than they do on coffee. • General Motors spends more money on health insurance than they do on steel for their cars.
Think for a moment… How do you think they pay for that? They pass the costs on to us – their customers.
Every time you spend: • $1. 95 at Starbucks for a cup of coffee, – $. 30 goes to cover medical costs. • $10 for a movie ticket, – $1. 50 goes to cover medical costs. • $20 for a pizza, – $3 goes to cover medical costs. • $50 for a tank of gas, – $7. 50 goes to cover medical costs.
Every time you spend: • $250 for an airline ticket, – $37. 50 goes to cover medical costs. • $1, 000 on auto repairs, – $150 goes to cover medical costs. • $2, 500 on a plasma television, – $375 goes to cover medical costs. • $25, 000 on a new car, – $1, 666 goes to cover medical costs.
We’re all paying the bill … Increased prices, Increased taxes, Increased premiums
How to Make Your Chronic Pain Your Best Friend
Pain is an acronym for … Pay Attention Inside Now.
The three most popular types of chronic pain: arthritis, neck and back pain and headaches
joint inflammation. An estimated 43 million people in Arthritis literally means the U. S. suffer from arthritis or other rheumatic conditions. This number is expected to reach million by the year 2020. 60
The most common type of arthritis is osteoarthritis, affecting an estimated 21 million adults in the United States. It is a chronic disease that leads to the deterioration of your joint cartilage.
Back pain is one of the most significant problems facing Americans: 85 percent of all people will experience back pain at some time in their lives and again, many of you may have experienced how debilitating neck and back pain can be.
Did you know? Disability due to chronic low back pain is the most expensive benign condition that is medically treated in industrialized countries.
Did you know? Back pain is the second most popular reason for visits to the doctor’s office, outnumbered only by upper-respiratory infections.
Did you know? Back pain is the most frequent cause of activity limitation in people under the age of 45. For people over 45, it is still the third leading cause of disability. — National Institutes of Health
Did you know? The pain and disability of low back disc herniations alone costs the health care system more than $50 billion per year.
Headaches The three most common types of headaches are…
Headaches Tension headaches account for approximately 75% of all headaches…
Headaches Migraine headaches affect approximately 25 million people in the U. S. each year; approximately 75% are women…
Headaches Cluster headaches debilitate approximately one million people per year – in this case primarily men.
Headaches All of this sounds so painful and debilitating – how and why would you ever want to call these conditions your best friend?
Americans have been told that if they take the magic combination of over the counter, or even worse, prescribed medications, than they can control their headaches, back pain and arthritic conditions…
At least until the next time it inconveniently comes back to haunt you
Or, you may be like millions of Americans who have learned to live with it.
Many people are convinced that there’s nothing they can do about their pain because a doctor has told them that there was nothing more the doctor could do about their pain.
understand the difference. It’s important to
It’s common to meet people who tell me that they have their normal headaches or normal back pain.
common for people to experience a headache, back pain or joint pain on occasion, it is not normal to live in pain. Although it is
Where is the sense in that?
Doctors learn that pain is a sign that something is wrong in the body. Chronic pain is not. Acute pain is normal.
What do you really believe is the best thing to do when your body is asking you to pay attention to it?
And what do you think will happen as a result of ignoring your body’s signals and signs asking you to pay attention to it?
Think about it… You are driving in your car and your check engine light goes on, what do you do?
If you don’t take care of a small problem when it’s a small problem, over time, it becomes a _____.
Most people realize that their vehicles will run much better and last better they take care of them much longer the
Chronic pain is really your best friend because it’s your body’s early detection, or warning system, asking you to Pay Attention Inside Now.
What should you do about it? Take it to an expert who can help you understand what the problem is.
Then, you can make some decisions about the best way to handle it.
The most common causes of chronic pain are most often related to structural misalignments of the joints of the body along with the soft tissue damage that occurs as a result.
This has recently become an even greater epidemic because millions of Americans either sit at a desk in front of a computer all day, overuse or misuse their bodies at very physical jobs, or they are just so deconditioned and overstressed that their bodies have no choice but to cry out for help.
Structural problems, including misalignments of the spine –known as vertebral subluxations – disc problems, muscle spasms, trigger points and other forms of physical stresses are the most popular causes of chronic pain.
The most common solution to a physical problem is a physical solution, not necessarily a chemical solution. Doesn’t that make sense to you?
Many people think they don’t have the time or money to take care of themselves. It’s just not true.
won’t have the time or money to afford to buy your health back once you have lost it. I can assure you that you
The Ultimate Solution To America’s Health Care Crisis • Yes, it is true… – America is rapidly heading toward economic disaster due to skyrocketing health care costs.
The Ultimate Solution To America’s Health Care Crisis Who’s going to fix our health care system? We Are!
The Ultimate Solution To America’s Health Care Crisis Discover Wellness … It works, if you live it… it doesn’t, if you don’t.
The Ultimate Solution To America’s Health Care Crisis My message to you today is one of hope. It is time for us to work together to put the health and the care back into health care.
If you choose to… Discover Wellness, the ultimate solution to America’s health care crisis… You will discover… that staying healthy CAN make you rich.
Thank You
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