| "The cry of mankind is not for pleasure
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| | receptive to relief and functional
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| but release from pain." Goethe
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| | restoration by approaches that include
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| Pain can be a life saving bodily defense.
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| | hands-on techniques.
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| To be born with the inability to feel
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| | Such concepts emerged from the mists of
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| pain assures early death, but in the
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| | antiquity. The idea is ancient. Wherever
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| vast, ordinary middle ground of living -
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| | native societies developed healing
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| between first perception and life threat
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| | systems, they incorporated some form of
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| - the hope for pain relief is a driving
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| | these applications. What is new are
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| universal need.
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| | advances from increased knowledge and
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| Yet, while pain relief is historically
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| | experience - and, at the same time, what
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| first priority for a host of health-care
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| | was tragic is what transpired during the
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| professions: traditional medicine,
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| | formation of "professions" when, many
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| osteopathy, chiropractic, physical
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| | generations ago, the basic understandings
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| therapy and others, all associated with
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| | became the fodder of contention,
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| related industries that pervade the
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| | conflict, greed, lust for power -
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| societies of the world, despite all that
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| | domination at any cost. Logic died.
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| alleged effort, there is, in fact, a Pain
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| | Because during one of its lowest
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| Pandemic. Because the fundamentals are
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| | intellectual ebbs traditionalism rejected
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| not universally accepted, for more than a
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| | the hands-on (manipulative) therapies,
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| century and a half, countless millions
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| | instead of reinvestigating, it went to
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| have suffered unnecessarily and continue
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| | war at any cost as reaction to the
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| to suffer- especially wherever
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| | subsequent emergence of osteopathy, then
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| Westernized medicine is practiced as the
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| | chiropractic. "Enemies" have to be
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| result of medicine's Fundamental Flaw.
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| | despised so how could they do anything
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| In a single simple statement, parts of
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| | worth emulating? And there certainly were
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| the body operate similarly to machines.
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| | always cases of abuse to "justify" such
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| Each has levers, pulleys, power sources,
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| | attitudes. The ongoing screams of
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| support systems and the need for balance
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| | societal pain eventually became
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| in performance. When imbalance occurs,
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| | background noise, "just the way things
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| performance is impaired. Pain can be
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| | are," as the essence of the issue became
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| equivalent to squeaks in the machinery
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| | lost in the professional posturing and
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| that may be relieved by skills not
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| | the onslaught of pill popping advertising
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| dissimilar to those of the machinist, the
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| | as the 'normal' way to relieve pain.
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| mechanic, the carpenter - the study of
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| | Medicine's technological advances with
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| function through knowledgeable
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| | interposed instrumentation only further
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| examination of the materials they work
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| | obscure and distance the clinician from
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| with.
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| | primary responsibility to understand what
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| In the body, the exquisitely complex
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| | the patient's tissues willingly reveal to
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| relationships and interactions between
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| | the respectful clinical examination. And,
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| the parts are the substance for the
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| | the advent of managed care shoveled on
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| production of a host of pain syndromes
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| | another layer of obfuscation. But truth
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| whether experienced as headache, back
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| | persists: There are invaluable medical
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| pain, neck pain - musculoskeletal pain in
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| | therapies that only hands can
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| any of its expressions. Many, regardless,
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| | successfully administer.
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| are inherently, sometimes uniquely
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