Day 8: “Whats the root cause of my pain?"

[00:00:00]This has been weighing heavily on my heart because I see too many people that are being led the wrong direction when they want to overcome an injury or overcome pain. And that is MRIs are being heavily overutilized nowadays. And this is not just for profit. Yes, there's there's money involved when it comes to a doctor who recommends getting an MRI or sending you off and pacifying you with some sort of pain medication or muscle relaxers. This is more than that.

[00:00:26]MRIs will tell you exactly what's going on on the inside. And I think that's what you kind of want to know. Many people that I speak to say that they want to know the root cause of what's causing their pain. However, the old biomedical model of care is that every single pain or every single dysfunction or symptom is associated with some sort of damaged tissue. And that's simply not the case. There has been countless research articles showing that people with the worst MRIs, the worst imaging, have actually sometimes no symptoms at all. Yet some people that come to my clinic have a perfectly looking X-ray or MRI or their imaging doesn't look too bad, yet they're dealing with unrelenting pain.

[00:01:08]And so you're taking into account just the structural cause, right? That that's what and that's what you kind of want to know. That's what you think the root cause is. But the root cause truly is a product of our lifestyle, our habits, our factors, the way we cope with stress, every action, every behavior, and all the values and everything that that makes us who we are, right? So we don't want to just treat the pain. We want to treat the individual. So if you're looking to try to solve your pain, don't just immediately resort to an MRI because that can cause a lot of either mental health issues, it can cause fear-mongering knowing what's going on the inside, and instead focus on what's within your control, which is to reduce stress, exercise more, and be a little bit more positive about your situation because 90% of the time your MRI doesn't depict who you exactly are.