What Pain is Telling You: Your diagnosis is just the symptom

By Matthew Sorensen

Humans are wired to survive.

The human body is a master compensator. Our insides contain vital blood supplies, neural connections and organs that play physical, emotional and psychological roles in maintaining our balance of being. This is the soft frame of the body.

The hard frame consists of muscles, ligaments, tendons, bones and joints. Our hard frame is set up to protect our soft frame. Any dysfunction related to internal compression is therefore likely to result in altered muscular recruitment to minimise compression on internal structures. This altered recruitment presents itself initially as functional compensation and if not corrected, a structural compensation, leading to further pain and dis-ease.