Pain can often be difficult to understand.
There can be many different approaches to addressing pain. What is important is getting to the cause of the pain. There are many differing approaches to resolving pain including many that use acupuncture relieve pain.
Pain can be addressed from an allopathic view or a holistic view.
Medical physicians are allopathic. Dr. Schneider’s approach is holistic. The major difference between these approaches revolves around the focus. Whereas the medical approach is focused around the symptom and how to stop it, Dr. Schneider attempts to get at the deeper imbalance or cause. Medicine tends to treat most pain patient’s similarly. Dr. Schneider realizes that no two people are the same and in as much no two individuals can have pain for the same reason. Medical physicians will prescribe the same drugs for most pain patient’s. Whereas Dr. Schneider treats each and every patient individually with unique approaches utilizing acupuncture and self hypnosis.
Pain can be deceiving.
For, the elimination of pain does not directly correlate with the resolution of the cause. If a person has pain, this symptom exists as a result of the body sending a warning. There is something causing the symptom of pain, there is a reason for the warning. If you take a medication to block or cover-up the pain warning have you resolved the problem? The obvious answer is no! The mere absence of pain does not mean you are better. If you stepped on a nail, went to your medical doctor and he gave you a cortisone injection and an oral medication for pain but did not remove the nail what would be your response? Your pain may be eleviated or reduced, however the nail is still sticking out of your foot. This is an obvious example of why simplycovering-up the pain is not an effective approach. For, other pain conditions are similar, however not as obvious to identify the cause, as a nail sticking out of your foot. Pain that occurs internally is just as important if not even more so.
Does the absence of pain or symptoms mean you have fixed the problem, or that you are healthy?
Referring back to the nail scenario the answer becomes clear. Covering-up the pain without pulling the nail out is not a solution, absence of symptoms is not the same as health. Most if not all illness and disease exists in the body without symptoms. How early do you think we can identify plaquing within the arteries? The answer is two years of age. It is not until a person is in their sixties that heart disease typically will show symptoms. The disease state developed over many years before the symptoms. The same is true of other more serious health conditions. It is well understood that we develop cancer cells throughout our entire life and this process totally asymptomatic. Just like these conditions pain is a deep seated underlying imbalance brewing, and without the proper intervention can be quite devastating
