subject: Neck Pain Again? Time To Try Something New [print this page] Staying healthy is made easier when you use the trial and error method by doing little mini experiments on yourself.
For example, it's 7:45 p.m and my neck has been in excruciating pain for the past 4 hours. It's an old injury that is reactivated by lots of deskwork that encourages poor posture. It is a great time for a little mini-experiment.
You see, the chiropractor's office is closed for the day and so are the massage therapists. Do you ever experience days where this type of thing happens to you? Days where you want to yell at the top of your lungs, "Take the pain away!"
Complaining Does Not Help: Only a Pain Relief Solution Will Work
The pain and situation could be really bad and go on for days at a time. Some people who have excruciating pain will turn to medical marijuana to numb the pain. Using medical marijuana can be a difficult decision; it can be an invitation to criminals to come and "take the stash". But now, you don't need a stash because the pot can be added to lollipops, tea or the traditional brownies. Using medical marijuana may work for some people but it won't really work for me.
Pain relief methods that have worked previously may also work now. For example, using gravity boots to hang upside down always worked. In two minutes flat, the pain is gone with the upside down position. The problem associated with this is that it can be difficult to essentially throw the legs over the bar to hang from. A background in gymnastics would probably make this an easier task.
Increasing vitamin E to about 1200 IU per day also has helped. If taken all at once, in about two hours the pain is reduced significantly. Vitamin E has been very helpful with those who have muscle problems such as muscular dystrophy.
Hydration helps, too. If you tend to be dehydrated, try increasing your water intake; 4 cups or more can reduce pain.
A whole body vibration machine called the K1 machine also has helped the neck pain. This is a type of exercise equipment that vibrates the body at a certain level of Hertz. In studies, the whole body vibration machine has been shown to increase endorphins that calm down the pain sensations and replace them with relaxed calmness. The amount of time investment is only 10 minutes. After the K1 machine shuts itself off, the pain is gone.
Where Would We Be Without Friends?
A friend had sent me a neck pain relief method a few weeks prior. I had set it aside, waiting for a night of excruciating pain. It was a dietary supplement made of medicinal herbs from China that was used by cancer patients. Cancer patients can have pain after cancer treatments have stopped...years later. My friend mentioned that her husband's disk herniation in his neck responded quite well to the new method she had sent me and he did not need surgery to correct the herniation, although it took awhile. If some herbs were good enough to help cancer patients, then it was good enough for me to experiment with. At 7:50 p.m., I decided to try a mini-experiment and turned on the tea kettle on the stove.
The supplement packet is poured into the coffee cup and the boiling water fills the cup. Now it's just a matter of waiting for it to cool.
8 p.m. The tea is ready. Taste is always important. It's not bad and not sweet. Rated neutral in taste, I think even a child could drink it without gagging. It's time to drink the whole cup and see what happens to the excruciating neck pain.
8:03 p.m. Pain still there. No difference.
8:04 p.m. Pain is reducing. So maybe all those cancer patients really have found a secret...
8:06 p.m. Pain has disappeared! How could it happen? How could it work so fast and not be a drug? Well, I better wait a minute because the results could be temporary.
8:25 p.m. My neck still feels wonderful - without pain. I can turn it every direction without pain. I remember what it was like now not to have pain. It's time to see the list of ingredients.
The ingredient list says: Notoginseng, Cnidium, Red Peony, Circuma rhizome, Codonopsis, Hawthorn fruit, Astragalus, White Peony, Lotus Node, Carthamus flower, Licorice Root and Stevia. It's a totally natural product made only of herbs; lots of Chinese herbs. No sweeteners. No wheat for gluten sensitive people. No artificial anything. No milk for the dairy sensitive. No soy for those who are allergic. No preservatives. This is something that I would recommend to my patients when I was practicing.
And it worked for me; it's another method I can use.
Why aren't the cancer patients sharing this secret? They are able to stop pain with a cup of tea.
I asked my friend who else she had told about this. She said other people who had intractable pain, shingles, tooth pain (before they got to the dentist), back pain, and headaches. I mentioned we should add neck muscle pain to the list.
The neck pain relief lasted 25 hours, then came back but was only minor on the 1-10 pain scale. I visited my chiropractor for an adjustment. Then the neck pain relief lasted another four days.
The alternative methods of neck pain relief could also potentially work for other types of pain. All we have to do is create our own little mini experiment; some may not work but others will.
