Many Patients With Multiple Sclerosis Have Overcome Their Pains

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that affects the central nervous system. Some of our nerve cells have a lipid coat which is known as the myeline sheath. In multiple sclerosis, an inflammatory reaction destroys myelinated nerve fibers.

Patients often suffer from severe pains that are usually the result of irritation of the inflamed nerve fibers.

Multiple sclerosis is a disease that is characterized by bouts of exacerbation pain intervened by periods of quiescence. Exacerbations are usually separated by long periods, months to years, which are free of symptoms.

The classic symptoms of multiple sclerosis include any of the following:

- Sensory loss and parasthesias. These are usually early complaints.

- About 40% of patients suffer from pains at a point or another during the course of the illness. The pain is usually gnawing or burning in character.

- Muscle cramps that are secondary to affection of the motor cells of the spinal cord.

- Symptoms due to affection of the involuntary, or autonomic, nervous system such as bowel and bladder dysfunction.

- Patients occasionally complain of fatigue and dizziness.

- Impairment of concentration, attention span, judgment and short term memory.

- Mood disorders such as depression or euphoria.

- Inflammation of the trigeminal nerve (trigeminal nerve) which leads to weakness of the muscles of the face.

- Convulsions or fits occur in some patients.

Pain is an important issue for most patients with multiple sclerosis. The pain is sometimes severe. The pain is occasionally resistant to conventional medical treatment lines.

The human brain, nerves and spinal cord are loosely enveloped in 3 layers of thin biological membranes that are known as the meninges.

When the meninges are subjected to tension, pressure is transmitted to the nerves leading to pain and nerve dysfunction.

A new unique treatment called the NRC technique is directed towards relieving the tension that maybe affecting the meninges. The NRC involves stimulation, using a special method, of a certain area on the back of the head (occiput) and the first cervical vertebra (atlas). The technique relieves tension exerted on the meninges; thus, reducing the pressure applied to the nerves.

Many patients with multiple sclerosis have overcome their pains after only a single session of NRC.

However, normally, most patients report marked improvement after a few weeks of regular NRC treatment. A simple therapeutic test session can help the chiropractic decide whether or not NRC can have positive influence on the patient's symptoms.

Improvement of the patient's symptoms after the 10 minute test can predict even better results after longer periods of regular NRC therapy.

NRC has opened new horizons for patients with multiple sclerosis. Hundreds of patients of multiple sclerosis have managed to rid themselves of the pain that commonly accompanies this disorder.


Dr. Tanner Hancock, Hancock Health & Wellness is one of the few clinics in the U.S. and the only clinic selected in Wichita, Kansas to provide the NRC technique for the natural, drug free treatment of many types of pain & other conditions.

Stress & Depression Can Trigger Trigeminal Neuralgia

Trigeminal neuralgia is a rather common painful disorder.

The exact cause behind this disorder is not completely understood. Conventional medications are often ineffective in controlling the severe pain that is experienced by patients with trigeminal neuralgia.

The trigeminal nerve is a cranial nerve that primarily carries sensory nerve fibers of the skin of the face. Injury to the nerve fibers of the trigeminal nerve leads to pain which is usually severe and burning in nature.

Although the exact mechanism behind trigeminal neuralgia is yet to be known, research has proven that stress and depression can aggravate the pain attacks that patients experience.

The presentation of trigeminal neuralgia is often in the form of stabbing or burning pain of one side of the face. The pain is usually localized to the area between the angle of the jaw and the corner of the mouth. However, some patients report pain localized to the area between the upper lip and the eyebrow.

The pain is often severe and occurs in attacks that can last for up to 20 minutes.

The frequency of the attacks varies greatly; while some patients experience 1-2 attacks per day, others may experience 10 attacks or more per hour. The pain is often triggered by talking, chewing, smiling, shaving and drinking hot or cold drinks. Furthermore, blowing the nose and brushing the teeth can trigger the pain in some patients.

Initially, patients may find relief with one of the drugs that are usually prescribed to patients with trigeminal neuralgia such as carbamazepine.

Afterwards, the pain becomes resistant to medical treatment and the severity of pain aggravates over time. Most recently, NRC has been proven to be effective in controlling the severe pain attacks that are experienced by patients with trigeminal neuralgia.

The unique NRC technique is a chiropractic hands-on technique that has produced magical pain relief results in many disorders associated with pain including trigeminal neuralgia.

The NRC design was based on the fact that compression and/or irritation of the meninges, which are membranous sheaths that envelop the brain and nerves, are the main causes underlying painful disorders.

The NRC technique involves compression of the occiput and the atlas which relieves tension exerted on the meninges sheathing the nerves. Patients with trigeminal neuralgia can experience complete relief of their pain after a single session of NRC therapy.

One of the great benefits of NRC is that relieves stress.

As mentioned earlier, patients with trigeminal neuralgia often develop depression which further aggravates their perception of pain during the attacks. Accordingly, not only can NRC decrease the severity of pain attacks in patients with trigeminal neuralgia, but it can also relieve stress which helps in the control of associated depressive symptoms.

A 10 minute therapeutic test can help the chiropractor determine whether or not NRC can help alleviate your pain.

A decrease in the severity of the pain after a short NRC session predicts even better results with longer repeated sessions.

Even more, some patients with trigeminal neuralgia experience complete disappearance of their pain during or shortly after the therapeutic test.

The NRC technique is totally safe and has been increasingly becoming an effective pain control treatment in many diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, headache, lupus, arthritis, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, insomnia, Parkinsonism, irritable bowel syndrome, nervousness, anorexia and various painful disorders.




Dr. Tanner Hancock, Hancock Health & Wellness is one of the few clinics in the U.S. and the only clinic selected in Wichita, Kansas to provide the NRC technique for the natural, drug free treatment of many types of pain & other conditions.

Chiropractic As Part Of A "Get Healthy" Program

If you're like many people, you'd love to be a healthy person. If you already feel pretty healthy, that's great. However, I've noticed more and more people are searching the internet for ways to get healthy. They want to be healthy, they just don't necessarily want to have to take any difficult action steps in order to make it happen.

Getting healthy usually means all the normal steps. Eating better, getting some regular exercise, and addressing various ailments and symptoms that have begun to show up. Still, most people are going to take a passive approach to their health. They want to do things and go places where things will be "done to them" rather than them having to "do stuff."

Let's take eating better for example. There's no real mystery any more for you in which foods are good for you. Fast food is usually bad (even the stuff they try to make seem like it's good for you), and vegetables are good. When you are snacking on potato chips, you can't honestly be telling yourself "I sure am eating healthy."

Eating healthy things, putting only healthy things in your shopping cart, and worse, planning your meals ahead of time so you don't get caught starving and nothing to eat but fast food requires effort.

Exercise is the same thing. Remember those belts that people used to strap around their waist and get shaken into better health? You don't see them anymore because exercise really is not a passive thing. You've got to get out of your chair and regularly move around to make anything happen. After awhile, just walking around is not really going to get you the results you want either. You'll have to put in more effort to increase the intensity of your exercise to hit the next level.

Here's the good news for those people that want to do something healthy, but don't want to put forth a ton of effort. Get a chiropractic adjustment. You don't have to wait for headaches, neck pain, or back pain to decide to visit a chiropractor (even though that's what a lot of people do). Getting a chiropractic adjustment is one of the easiest things to do, and one of the healthiest.

It's an insidious thing. You don't see that your spine is breaking down. You don't see the degeneration process start to occur in your spine and the spinal discs. You just know that things aren't quite right. I've had patients that never complained of anything more than low back stiffness, before coming in for their first chiropractic visit.

However, their x-rays showed advanced spinal degeneration something that simply could not happen overnight. The best part of all in starting this type of program is that the only "action" you have to take is to show up. The chiropractor will do the rest, and you get to just sit back and feel better about taking a healthy step toward a better you.

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Your Pain Just Started, But...

There are problems that have just started, lurking beneath the surface where you have not yet felt their pain. You may go years, occasionally feeling some soreness and stiffness, just to have it go away on its own. Maybe you feel a twinge, take a pill, and it all seems like it's going to be okay.

Then one morning you get up, accidentally drop your socks on the floor, bend down to pick them up and you can't get back up. You are having so much pain that you barely manage to make it to your bed and hang on. You start taking pills like crazy until you manage to pull out the yellow pages and find a nearby chiropractor.

On your visit to the chiropractor, he explains that your spine is showing signs of wear and tear, that your problem likely began years ago. "What? I just bent down to pick up my socks. My problem started this morning." The problem with believing that your problem is new is that you will also likely believe that your pain should go away quickly.

You are likely forgetting about all the times you felt warning signals and quickly dismissed them or medicated them away. You don't realize that you haven't been able to touch your toes in years, you don't exercise regularly, and your job entails you sitting for extended periods of time. These were all factors in the building of your spinal problem, long before you ever felt your first symptom... the back pain.

The back pain ended up as the final result of the years of build up on your spine. Now you can either go for stronger drugs to cover things up, or you can begin to undo the years of ignoring the warnings and work to build up a healthy and normally functioning spine. The good news is that it rarely takes nearly as long to put your back together as it took to make it bad in the first place.

There is a point of no return. There is a point when you've ignored and dulled the warning signals for so long that the degeneration in your spine and the bulging of your spinal disc have eliminated some of the more conservative treatments. There is a time when your only choice is a spinal surgery or injections to stop the pain even if they aren't fixing anything.

What can you learn from this? When the back pain hits, take a good look at when your problem began and not just when your symptoms began. Seriously evaluate what its going to take to get your spine back to a good place and pain-free. The longer you wait in taking the proper steps, the more difficult the journey.

Is Back Pain Due To A Lack Of Exercise?

Many people seem to want to know if you can just exercise lower back pain away. Is it only about exercise? That is, did you end up with lower back pain due to a lack of exercise? Or could it be something else?

Your back pain is not necessarily caused by a lack of exercise, but it's probably a good place to start looking. When I ask patients if they exercise, most are still saying "no." Those that do exercise tend to stick with the same machine or routine for their entire program. (And almost none of their "routine" exercises focus on improving their back muscles.)

So on one hand, we have those that don't exercise and have lower back pain. It's easy to take a guess and see that their spine is having problems due to a lack of muscular support. While their spine may need more work at this point (check with your healthcare professional), eventually they'll exercise lower back pain away by creating a muscular back support around their spine with regular exercise.

Those that do exercise, but are not performing a variety of movements are causing a different problem; muscular imbalance. They are likely only developing certain muscle groups while largely ignoring others. Worse, they may be performing activities that are alarmingly similar to what they already do all day.

They are strengthening muscles that are already overworked (muscles in the front of the body) and not strengthening muscles that are typically ignored (back muscles). This is a standard recipe for developing lower back pain problems and should be avoided.

Overall, maintaining a variety of activities that includes exercises to enhance cardiovascular health, strengthening and stretching will help exercise lower back pain away for good. The same formula works for almost everyone. First, due some exercise regularly. Next, make sure you take some time to strengthen your back muscles (especially if you already know you need it!).

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