Let’s talk about pain. Pain is an awful feeling.

Whether it is neck pain, back pain, joint pain, or some other type of pain, we are here to help your mechanics get back to the best they can be. This is a simple analogy, but it seems to resonate with our patients: you can have an axle of a car operate exactly as it should for 200,000 miles, but one small balancing issue will lead to a small wobble that develops into a significant wobble in a very short time. The car still functions, but it’s impaired.

Yes, a base injury hurts. However, a patient’s primary complaint is often not the actual source of the symptoms that the patient is presenting with. When we start to develop pain, the body starts to compensate to prevent that pain. Those compensations start to cause a strain on a different place within the body.

Consider low back pain: this can cause a person to walk differently than normal, which then strains an area of the knee. If that knee pain patient presents their primary pain being knee pain and we treat that knee pain but don’t catch the lower back pain presented near the bottom of the list of symptoms, then that same knee pain will keep returning and the patient will continue to seek treatment for the same pain.

Unfortunately, this is how the traditional medical world operates. It is too easy to simply write a script for pain pills to help a patient forget they have the issue, to inject a knee with hydrocortisone and have the patient feel immediate but temporary relief, or to just schedule an irreversible surgery that will greatly affect that patient’s daily life.

In any of these cases, the patient’s best isn’t being achieved.

Some practices treat symptoms to increase profit margins as patients continue to return to treatments that aren’t helping long-term. Some practices might find it easer to only look at the biggest issue rather than take the time to understand how all issues are working together.

At K2 Holistic Health, we work to achieve the patient’s best. These means turning away from some questionable traditional practices. We seek to identify and correct the root cause of symptoms, not to provide temporary relief.

That’s why all three of our departments collaborate and meet regularly to discuss all patient cases. This helps us see how symptoms are working together, which helps us better identify an effective, lasting treatment plan.

If you’re struggling with chronic pain, but don’t want more pills or surgeries, there’s a better way.

Contact us today.