A couple of days ago while browsing the Internet second time I ran across this article.
I was amazed how resonant this topic was with my own thoughts that I was mulling over for a while and that were troubling me.
From the article:” A new White House study
found a 400 percent jump in prescription drug abuse between 1998 and 2008. Experts
blame a lack of monitoring programs as well as Americans' increasing
unwillingness to bear even small pains. “
A strange explanation. Rather not really an
explanation at all, but replacement one unknown with another one.
Most are aware of addictions and their terrible
outcome. “Small pains” whatever this means
are not life-threaten. Why would people be
jeopardizing their health and the very life by consuming “legally
prescribed” narcotics?
I think what pushes people to take drugs is exhaustion and
desperation due to constant suffering from painful skeletal muscular disorders
and mostly from stress. Stress that crawls from all cracks of modern
life and attacks, attacks, attacks.
1. Stress always
awakens and increases muscular tone
2. Mainly, people carry
stress in the neck and upper back region, abdominal
and lower back region.
3 It expressed in
muscular tensions/elevated muscle resting tone.
5. Stress causes
muscular pains and aches.
6. As we all know in
the last 10-15 years, due to Internet and new communication
media, declining economy, terror acts, etc. people are exposed
to much more stress daily.
7. When one developing
painful orthopedic disorders related to trauma or due
to chronic skeletal muscular conditions, stress contributes and fuels pain as well as in most cases do not
allow to sustain normal muscular
resting tone within injured area.
Why then massage therapists, physical therapists,
chiropractors, professionals whose primary focus is treatment of painful
skeletal muscular disorders and stress management cannot stop this epidemic of
drug addictions? I think it's because as an industry we failed.
One of the reasons is - massage therapy community is divided,
and therefore general public practically has a hard time cannot choose between
1000s alternative names for massage therapy.
Last 13 years many of my colleagues, pretended to be scientists,
“developed” treatment methodology of their own, denying 1000s year history of
clinically proven safe and effective Oriental medicine and scientific
discoveries and clinically proven methods of conventional Western massage that
was developed in previous centuries. By all means we have to work with physical
therapists, as well as chiropractors to gather, for sake of people, and not to
be driven by great, egos, politics. It happens but not enough.
I have a strong suspicion that these distractions and "new
movements" are the heavy contributors to this “400 percent jump
in prescription drug abuse.” Please note that the offered statistics
spans the period between 1998 and 2008. It doesn't look today in 2013 it
changed for the better.
I am saying "we failed," because it is scientifically
and clinically proven that massage therapy is the most powerful methodology in
stress management, designed to take care of harmful side-effects of stress and
thus alleviate public all the aforementioned "small
pains" in the grand scale.
But, of course, the reasons for the failure are not only
internal contradictions within the massage field. Many of our
colleagues constantly do great job, providing orthopedic massage, stress
management massage, protocols for fibromyalgia cases, etc. and achieving
results. The problem is that those great results are not sustained, and when
symptoms come back people move back to consuming drugs.
To achieve sustain results not only a therapist has to provide,
at least, 15 treatments on twice a week basis, but also to understand adequate
treatment concepts, such as for example that all trigger points have to be
patiently discovered and compressed for a 30 second producing ischemia.
It is also important to understand that trigger points are the
results of muscle/fascia dysfunction /insufficiency and for sustained results
we have to address it appropriately. Consider the difference between
potentials of connective tissue and muscular tissues.
However, in my personal clinical observations as well as talking
to many other practitioners I came to the conclusion that in today's world even
perfect quality of treatment is not enough to secure sustain
results. Because causes of stress are many, are constant and
unavoidable - the stress management efforts also have to be just as
constant. In other words in order to sustain results a home program
must be included.
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