What I love about my job is that is that it is a constant journey of exploration. Each new client that comes through the door brings a whole new learning experience for me.
There are some familiar patterns that tend to appear but I DEFINITELY learn something new from everyone, and everyone I treat makes me feel how little I need to learn about how I can help people.
Don't get me wrong I do help many people but with some I frustratingly draw a blank.
I am a huge advocate for looking at the BIG picture when looking at someones health.
I was listening to a interview with Dr Tom OBryan, a world expert on Gluten Sensitivity and Coeliac Disease, and he said that when looking at a persons health problem you have to "look from 30,000 feet".
I totally resonated with this as it is exactly where I want to be when a client comes to see me.
When your car starts making a funny noise you don't take it to the car wash and hope the problem is going to go away. The same when your body starts to get aches and pains, taking that pill, having that massage, getting that adjustment is not really going to solve your problem.
It may well go away temporarily but eventually it's going to rear it's ugly head.
I had a new client this week who came to me with chronic pain in his neck, shoulder, between his shoulders, lower back, knees and ankles. He was a mess!
He had been for massage and chiropractic care since he was in his teens. This had kept him going but now at 42 in his words, "I feel like an old man".
One good thing was that he was open to doing anything to help himself. This was music to my ears as I knew I could be brutally honest with him.
When someone has generalized pain like this man it is obvious to me from my overhead view that his body as a whole was not happy. Testing his muscles immediately confirmed this assumption as they were all hypertonic or over tight which is a good indicator to me that his body was overloaded or in a state of inflammation.
A glue for the source of this inflammation did n't come from his current symptoms but from something he suffered from as a child, NOSEBLEEDS.
Nosebleeds in children are an early sign of gluten sensitivity.
Using muscle testing I tested his bodies reaction to gluten and sure enough his muscles weakened dramatically to wheat which contains gliadin.
Further testing of his muscles also showed that he potentially had a B12 Deficiency, which often is associated with gluten sensitivity because it prevents the absorption. He had also been suffering from fatigue and increased irritability which are also associated with low B12.
For me to help him, I said, I was not going to lay a finger on you to begin with but my advice was to go gluten free and to get his B12 levels checked with his doctor. This is not the whole solution to his problem but like many before him following this advice he'll start to feel better and he'll begin to fly and start to see the big picture.
There are some familiar patterns that tend to appear but I DEFINITELY learn something new from everyone, and everyone I treat makes me feel how little I need to learn about how I can help people.Don't get me wrong I do help many people but with some I frustratingly draw a blank.
I am a huge advocate for looking at the BIG picture when looking at someones health.
I was listening to a interview with Dr Tom OBryan, a world expert on Gluten Sensitivity and Coeliac Disease, and he said that when looking at a persons health problem you have to "look from 30,000 feet".
I totally resonated with this as it is exactly where I want to be when a client comes to see me.
When your car starts making a funny noise you don't take it to the car wash and hope the problem is going to go away. The same when your body starts to get aches and pains, taking that pill, having that massage, getting that adjustment is not really going to solve your problem.
It may well go away temporarily but eventually it's going to rear it's ugly head.
I had a new client this week who came to me with chronic pain in his neck, shoulder, between his shoulders, lower back, knees and ankles. He was a mess!
He had been for massage and chiropractic care since he was in his teens. This had kept him going but now at 42 in his words, "I feel like an old man".
One good thing was that he was open to doing anything to help himself. This was music to my ears as I knew I could be brutally honest with him.
When someone has generalized pain like this man it is obvious to me from my overhead view that his body as a whole was not happy. Testing his muscles immediately confirmed this assumption as they were all hypertonic or over tight which is a good indicator to me that his body was overloaded or in a state of inflammation.
A glue for the source of this inflammation did n't come from his current symptoms but from something he suffered from as a child, NOSEBLEEDS.
Nosebleeds in children are an early sign of gluten sensitivity.
Using muscle testing I tested his bodies reaction to gluten and sure enough his muscles weakened dramatically to wheat which contains gliadin.
Further testing of his muscles also showed that he potentially had a B12 Deficiency, which often is associated with gluten sensitivity because it prevents the absorption. He had also been suffering from fatigue and increased irritability which are also associated with low B12.
For me to help him, I said, I was not going to lay a finger on you to begin with but my advice was to go gluten free and to get his B12 levels checked with his doctor. This is not the whole solution to his problem but like many before him following this advice he'll start to feel better and he'll begin to fly and start to see the big picture.
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