What are the 3 stresses that lead to pain?

When we assess are Chandlers Ford and Eastleigh community during our Chiropractic Initial consultation, we perform a detailed medical history, asking a range of questions to determine the exact stresses that has the potential to have caused the pain, injury or dysfunction.

These stresses can be divided in to 3 stresses, Physical, Chemical and Emotional. A long term imbalance in any of these three stresses has the ability to contribute to the pain or the inability for the body to heal itself correctly.

1.       Physical Stresses

Physical stresses is the easiest to understand. The day to day physical movements, postures and movement patterns that are body has to deal with every day. This can be as little as sitting to your form in the gym. Oftentimes we notice that it’s the small consistent movement patterns such as the way we sleep sit and do day to day tasks are often the underlying causes of pain. Such as a baby sitter who always holds her children on the same hip.

2.       Chemical Stresses

Chemical stresses involves the chemical imbalances in our body. These can be subdivided in to fixed an variable chemical stresses. Fixed chemical stresses are things out of our control such as menstrual cycles in woman or illness where the a change in hormones and chemicals naturally occur.

Variable chemical stresses include what we input in to our body such as our food and drink intake. For example a poor diet with lots of fatty pro inflammatory foods is more likely to limit our healing process and augment pain rather than incorporating healthier anti inflammatory foods that promote healing.

3.       Emotional stresses

Emotional stresses can be a bit more difficult to understand. This relates to our stress levels affecting our global body system and function. If we have higher levels of emotional stress (family, work self) etc, that is going to increase the stress applied to our sympathetic nervous system (our fight/flight response). A long term override of this system causes higher blood pressure, increased breathing rate and tighter muscles to name a few. Alternatively, it reduces the function of our parasympathetic system (rest and digest) the one responsible for our body to rest and heal.

A combination of these 3 stressors can all work together to cause your pain and dysfunction so its imperative that when approaching your pain/problem we consider all these factors so you can receive the care and treatment you deserve with all factors considered for a healthy healing process.