The Fastest Way to Decrease Back Pain.
The fastest way to decrease back pain is to treat not only the back but also the kidneys and adrenals.
The idea that a “bone out of place” is causing your back pain is just the tip of the iceberg. If you want to get to all the causes look to the kidneys and adrenal glands.
According to Chinese medicine:
• The kidneys/adrenals are the most “Yin” organ of the body. Yin is supportive.
• The kidneys/adrenals relate to the bones which support your entire body.
Think of back pain as a lack of SUPPORT
• Think of your lower back and how it supports your body.
• When the Chinese say” kidney” they consider this entire system including the bone and the aspects of support.
• So when they think of the kidney they think of the organ, the function of the organ and the other parts of the body that relate to it.
In western medicine we know that the kidneys/adrenals regulate sodium and potassium which in turn regulates the conduction of the nerves. When you have back pain it is nerve pain. That is how the kidneys, the bones and the nerves are a system.
Inflammation and your adrenal glands:
• Another component of back pain, and in fact almost any disease, is inflammation.
• The main organ that combats inflammation is the adrenal glands.
• “Ad” means on top and “renal” means kidney.
• In Chinese medicine the adrenal glands the nerves, the bones and the kidneys are a system.
• When a person has back pain his bones are not simply “out of place.” There is inflammation in your kidney/adrenal/back/bone/nerve system.
• You have to get rid of this swelling for any other therapy including adjustments to help.
• Your back pain may come from a disk problem but the disc problem came from inflammation.
You may think that your back pain came from bone degeneration or arthritis but remember that bone health is part of kidney function.
If your back pain has nothing to do with the kidneys or adrenal glands then it should get better quickly with adjustments, exercise or other therapies.
Some people think that acupuncture is going to be the cure but acupuncture like chiropractic increases the nerve flow and will only work temporarily if you abuse your kidneys.
If you keep getting the same treatment for that back pain, and if the therapy does not hold look to the kidneys and adrenals.
In my practice I find that about 80% of the time I have to deal with kidney and adrenal function to relieve back pain. And when I do this I get a much more stable result.
What causes kidney and adrenal dysfunction?
• Sugar, dairy (milk, cheese and yogurt) and coffee (and other stimulants) are the biggest offenders. Every day I tell people who have back pain to stop eating these foods. They usually they tell me “I don’t have that much.” But they find out differently when they try to eliminate these foods.
• When you are having chronic back pain a little is too much. Have none. Most people have much more sugar and dairy than they think they have.
• When I ask people if they crave sugar or coffee? They tell me no. Then I find out that the reason they are not craving it is because they are eating it.
• If you get off of these foods and I give you the right kidney tonic and the right adrenal support you should notice improvement quickly with a fewer adjustments.
• No one is perfect and I know people will end up eating sugar and dairy again, but remember that back pain is the warning sign that you need to give your kidneys and adrenals a rest.
Common kidney / adrenal symptoms:
• Blood sugar problems
• Diabetes
• High Blood pressure
• Sugar cravings
• Coffee craving
• Chronic low back pain
• Leg pain
• Sciatica
• Stretching doesn’t help back pain
• Gets shaky when hungry
• Dark circle under eyes
• Always tired
Can back pain come from stress?
The adrenals fight stress so if you have weak adrenals stress will cause back pain BUT STRESS ALONE DOES NOT WEAKEN THE ADRENALS, it is the foods mentioned above that do most of the damage stress is a secondary trigger.
Can back pain come from an injury?
Yes, an injury such as a car accident can cause back pain and it may not have anything to do with your kidneys/adrenals but since the kidneys/adrenals fight inflammation you would heal even faster if you gave them extra support.
What if my blood tests say my Kidneys are OK?
That does not matter at all. I am talking about a functional kidney problem which means your kidneys are weak enough to lower your function.
Blood tests are looking for pathological kidney problems which mean you have a kidney disease. This is much more serious and it means you have waited too long and have ignored these warning signs. If you have a pathological kidney problem you most likely have had chronic back pain for a long long time.