West Valley Family Clinic Blog

No doubt that we can put ourselves in some very awkward positions in our sleep, and can wake up feeling stiff and sore from it. However, this should be the exception, and not the rule. Often I have people tell me that they wake up every morning with stiffness in their lowback, or neck, and that they think it is because they are sleeping wrong. Well, if that’s the case then they need to go back to sleeping school. We don’t sleep wrong every night. To say that is just a way of brushing aside the obvious, and trying to ignore the fact that there is a serious problem. If you are waking up with pain and stiffness on any regular basis, then you need to get checked. Please address any questions that you may have to drmarksnow@westvalleyfamilyclinic.com.

Years ago I had a car with a terrible vibrating problem. It was fine until I reached a certain speed and RPM, and then it would start to vibrate terribly. I thought that I probably needed to have the tires balanced and alighned, so I took it to a tire shop. I was a young man in my early twenties, and they saw me coming. I was sold a $900.00 set of new tires. I drove out of the shop, got onto the freeway, and as soon as I hit 55 mph, it started to shake again. I was furrious, and perplexed. I took it into a mechanic, and after looking it over he found that one of the engine mounts was loose. Thats it. He tightened it up, sent me on my way, and I had no further problems.

Like that engine mount, problems in the alignment of our spine can manifest in many different ways. Often we can spend hours and hours, and thousands of dollars chasing the symptoms. Then again, often people will ignore the problem, thinking it will just go away. What if I had done that with the car. eventually the vibrating would cause other mechanical breakdowns, and could lead to much more expensive damage.

The same is true with our bodies. If we just cover up the symptoms with pills, and don’t address the underlying structural problem we will cause more damage and incure more pain, suffering, and expense than if we had just had it fixed in the first place.

Don’t ignore your body’s warning signals. Take care of your body. Get checked by a chiropractor. As always, you can listen to this as a podcast at http://www.westvalleyfamilyclinic.com/audio/structure.mp3