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Acupuncture and Hypodermic Needles, Safe Keys To Unlock Blood Flow Within Tight Toxic Ruined Muscles Unleashing Fresh Natural Stem Cells!: Stem Cells are Powerful Muscle Tissue Regenerating Dynamos!by Stephen S Rodrigues MD (Author)
I have had the opportunity to travel a unique path during my career as a Family Practice doctor for thirty-plus years. During those years I have worked and practiced in many types of practices from the Emergency Room, Urgent Care Facilities, large and small groups, on a few military bases as a Campus Partner, and in the last 16 years, in my own private practice—all by myself, with no one to bug me, except my office manager, the receptionist, and my wife. Yes, based on all of those prior experiences, private practice is heaven.
My unique viewpoint was formed from my thirty years of experience, with the last fifteen years focused on using all valid safe, complementary, and alternative therapy options. So, my perspective is from being a human being, witness, patient of back pain for forty years, ankle pain for forty years, and Trigeminal Neuralgia for two years, a pain patient advocate, humanitarian, scientist, researcher, and a general practice physician.
Through years of research, I have recovered the shelved concepts, ideas, procedures, and philosophies of the Masters of Medicine from the last century and reintegrated those pearls of wisdom into my practice. I guess you would say, I’m a self-proclaimed "expert" on hands-on, in the office, no-technology, real-world, muscle-fascia-tendon-ligament pain treatment modalities. In my opinion, this combined approach is the holistic, safe, non-toxic, natural way to ignite the full forces of the innate healing that our Creator has endowed into our DNA to survive on this unpredictable earth.
My views are derived from those experiences and from those squeezed from those textbooks of old. Back then, the Masters worded their textbooks like they were talking to you personally in real time. Their wisdom is earthy, logical, reality-based, and untainted by modern technological jargon and molecular complexity.
These authors, who all worked independently of one another, but with the same agenda and using the same tools, uncovered many centuries of dust and misunderstanding about the human body and how to coax it to heal as naturally and humanely as possible. They all worked to treat pain problems that did not do well with just medications and that had poor outcomes with corrective orthopedic surgeries. They all worked in the muscles, connective, and nerve tissues to reverse the pain signal; but in addition, they were actually igniting healing that was actually curing the primary cause of this pain. This class of pain is known as myofascial pain and dysfunction.
I contend methods used by scientists to collect evidence and formulate theories to draw, what they believe to be accurate conclusions, are seriously flawed. Yet, because these flaws are subtle and difficult, if not impossible to determine, they end up being written into standard of care policies. In addition, these flaws have found their way into many of the laws which regulate how we choose to promote policy, how we fund research and ultimately how we choose to treat illnesses. As such, we legitimate the very policies that are causing irreparable harm to many Americans.
Many of these flaws are what I would call; incompletenesses and is for the most part invisible to many physicians and those who make policies. In order to elaborate my point, let’s start with what is most basic to the patient seeking help from a physician. Other than a positive health habit, which would lead a patient to a doctor for a physical to assure that his or her body is in good health, most patients seek a doctor because of a negative condition realized most often and is expressed by the patient as pain.
I suggest to you if we were to reconsider the fundamental meaning and definition of pain, we would see that it is incomplete. In addition, the causes of pain, where and how to look for pain are all crucial to understanding why these flaws are ultimately resulting in serious errors in diagnosis leading to unnecessary surgeries. I have also discovered that these incomplete and flawed definitions of pain are being placed into the minds of young medical students whose thinking and perceptions of pain will be clouded and confused as they enter their profession. As such, the integrity of medicine is being threatened, from the institutions of education in medicine to the gatekeepers who make policy through their authority and legitimate the practices which are at the foundation of healthcare.
In the course of the treatment of my patients and after a more thorough study and analysis of the concept of pain, as well as, my investigation working with my patients, was when I discovered the extent to which pain was not being defined correctly, nor was it being located appropriately and was being misrepresented. I discovered, as I’m sure many of my colleagues must have, as well, yet have been silent about it, that pain is not the static entity that is used to determine the correct therapy. When we use this static concept to advise patients on what we think is an appropriate therapy it ends up doing harm.
We also know that pain cannot really be seen for certainty on a scanner, MRI, or an X-ray, although we use them to find where pain is located. We’ve come to depend on these technologies rather than using the more practical and precise methods of human touch and pressure. The main reason so many in our society suffer with long-term pain that ultimately leads to serious narcotic abuses and worse, suicides, or why so many hip, shoulder, back and knee surgeries fail is because these surgeries are not the most accurate or appropriate for the treatment of pain. There are not really good practical or reasonable considerations to promote these needless surgeries, nor is there any logically sound or scientifically based evidence to offer these replacements or corrective procedures.
The leading impetus for the patient to even consider to voluntarily choose to have their spine fused or repaired, or to have a natural knee replaced with an artificial one would only be because they were not able to relieve their pain. Many doctors usually offer the patient three options, more pain pills which can lead to addiction, doing nothing and suffer miserably with the pain, or surgery, with all of the uncertainties as to whether it will ultimately relieve pain. And so, surgery is promoted, marketed and sold as a relief of pain.
There is, however, a fourth choice, a viable therapy among those that are neither addictive nor intrusive but rather are restorative and in many cases curative. The Holistic Healing Recipe-Self Care: in many advanced ancient cultures wellness and proactive care was a standard of self care and prevention. Keeping balanced, maintaining harmony, and attending to your bodies’ “whispering” request for self care early on were part of a person’s daily activities.
Daily self care included a wholesome diet, herbs, extra vitamins and magnesium supplements, exercise, stretching, yoga, heating with pads, hot tubs, hot springs, mineral springs, Epsom soaking, massage, scraping, acupoint and/or acupuncture treatments, strain-counterstrain, unwinding, chiropractic spinal adjustments, traction and most importantly, sleep hygiene. The Holistic Healing Recipe-Assisted Care [minimal-invasive] approach also included, in cases where one may get behind and need assistance with more intensive therapy, than you can progress to Acupuncture, modern or myofascial acupuncture, dry needling, GunIMS and wet needling, Travell's TrP injections and various other Bio/Prolo/Neural hypodermic injections.
Medicine is the time honored discipline which is entrusted to heal the sick and wounded, not take advantage of the sick and wounded! Here are examples of crimes that when considered within the context of holistic healing has been committed. These crimes are being committed a thousand times a day. These surgeries and other crimes are so common and accepted that people line up to get them, like the natural parts God gave them are full of cancer.
There is a case of a middle aged lady who suffered with long-term pain in her legs and knees. She saw her physician for relief of her pain. She was told by her physician that her knee joint was the cause of her leg pain based on the X-ray finding. This is a false conclusion made by the provider who did the surgery. Pain in the leg may be truly in the joint, but the proper way to prove this is to implement therapy. Therapy will more precisely determine if the pain is in the joint proper. Please note, the knee is a part of the leg and the leg around the knee joint has over thirty (30) parts that can cause pain, the least of which is the joint.
She trusted that her scans proved the degeneration of the joint was causing her pain. She was told that a joint replacement was the best treatment options for her leg pain. She trusted that the doctor had her best interest first. She trusted that after replacement she would not have leg pain. She trusted and believed after six months that her continued pain would eventually go away and that it was caused by scar tissue. She further trusted that the hydrocodone/APAP she was given was the best treatment option for her leg pain.
We can see a clear progression of events that so many patients follow, trusting all the way to the point when she trusted she would not get “hooked” on the narcotics prescribed because of the continued and constant pain. So from the beginning, to trusting that the physician would refer her to a safer more logical treatment before offering the replacement, to the final point of her increasing addiction to the narcotic prescriptions. She trusted the physician, as so many of the patients trust, including another patient, a male whose situation was very the much the same, except he had been in pain for over eight years.
So, as an Alternative and complementary trained provider, I now completely understand the lies being perpetrated on the sick and wounded. If the physician, in the cases above, had simply applied hands-on myofascial release therapy in the beginning of her report of pain, none of the issues would have happened. In my view, these mismanaged cases are 100% the result of the following errors, flaws and deceptions:
I look forward to a concerned and productive discussion on these issues.
Regards,
Stephen S. Rodrigues, MD
Acupuncture and Hypodermic Needles, Safe Keys To Unlock Blood Flow Within Tight Toxic Ruined Muscles Unleashing Fresh Natural Stem Cells!: Stem Cells are Powerful Muscle Tissue Regenerating Dynamos!by Stephen S Rodrigues MD (Author)
I have had the opportunity to travel a unique path during my career as a Family Practice doctor for thirty-plus years. During those years I have worked and practiced in many types of practices from the Emergency Room, Urgent Care Facilities, large and small groups, on a few military bases as a Campus Partner, and in the last 16 years, in my own private practice—all by myself, with no one to bug me, except my office manager, the receptionist, and my wife. Yes, based on all of those prior experiences, private practice is heaven.
My unique viewpoint was formed from my thirty years of experience, with the last fifteen years focused on using all valid safe, complementary, and alternative therapy options. So, my perspective is from being a human being, witness, patient of back pain for forty years, ankle pain for forty years, and Trigeminal Neuralgia for two years, a pain patient advocate, humanitarian, scientist, researcher, and a general practice physician.
Through years of research, I have recovered the shelved concepts, ideas, procedures, and philosophies of the Masters of Medicine from the last century and reintegrated those pearls of wisdom into my practice. I guess you would say, I’m a self-proclaimed "expert" on hands-on, in the office, no-technology, real-world, muscle-fascia-tendon-ligament pain treatment modalities. In my opinion, this combined approach is the holistic, safe, non-toxic, natural way to ignite the full forces of the innate healing that our Creator has endowed into our DNA to survive on this unpredictable earth.
My views are derived from those experiences and from those squeezed from those textbooks of old. Back then, the Masters worded their textbooks like they were talking to you personally in real time. Their wisdom is earthy, logical, reality-based, and untainted by modern technological jargon and molecular complexity.
These authors, who all worked independently of one another, but with the same agenda and using the same tools, uncovered many centuries of dust and misunderstanding about the human body and how to coax it to heal as naturally and humanely as possible. They all worked to treat pain problems that did not do well with just medications and that had poor outcomes with corrective orthopedic surgeries. They all worked in the muscles, connective, and nerve tissues to reverse the pain signal; but in addition, they were actually igniting healing that was actually curing the primary cause of this pain. This class of pain is known as myofascial pain and dysfunction.
I contend methods used by scientists to collect evidence and formulate theories to draw, what they believe to be accurate conclusions, are seriously flawed. Yet, because these flaws are subtle and difficult, if not impossible to determine, they end up being written into standard of care policies. In addition, these flaws have found their way into many of the laws which regulate how we choose to promote policy, how we fund research and ultimately how we choose to treat illnesses. As such, we legitimate the very policies that are causing irreparable harm to many Americans.
Many of these flaws are what I would call; incompletenesses and is for the most part invisible to many physicians and those who make policies. In order to elaborate my point, let’s start with what is most basic to the patient seeking help from a physician. Other than a positive health habit, which would lead a patient to a doctor for a physical to assure that his or her body is in good health, most patients seek a doctor because of a negative condition realized most often and is expressed by the patient as pain.
I suggest to you if we were to reconsider the fundamental meaning and definition of pain, we would see that it is incomplete. In addition, the causes of pain, where and how to look for pain are all crucial to understanding why these flaws are ultimately resulting in serious errors in diagnosis leading to unnecessary surgeries. I have also discovered that these incomplete and flawed definitions of pain are being placed into the minds of young medical students whose thinking and perceptions of pain will be clouded and confused as they enter their profession. As such, the integrity of medicine is being threatened, from the institutions of education in medicine to the gatekeepers who make policy through their authority and legitimate the practices which are at the foundation of healthcare.
In the course of the treatment of my patients and after a more thorough study and analysis of the concept of pain, as well as, my investigation working with my patients, was when I discovered the extent to which pain was not being defined correctly, nor was it being located appropriately and was being misrepresented. I discovered, as I’m sure many of my colleagues must have, as well, yet have been silent about it, that pain is not the static entity that is used to determine the correct therapy. When we use this static concept to advise patients on what we think is an appropriate therapy it ends up doing harm.
We also know that pain cannot really be seen for certainty on a scanner, MRI, or an X-ray, although we use them to find where pain is located. We’ve come to depend on these technologies rather than using the more practical and precise methods of human touch and pressure. The main reason so many in our society suffer with long-term pain that ultimately leads to serious narcotic abuses and worse, suicides, or why so many hip, shoulder, back and knee surgeries fail is because these surgeries are not the most accurate or appropriate for the treatment of pain. There are not really good practical or reasonable considerations to promote these needless surgeries, nor is there any logically sound or scientifically based evidence to offer these replacements or corrective procedures.
The leading impetus for the patient to even consider to voluntarily choose to have their spine fused or repaired, or to have a natural knee replaced with an artificial one would only be because they were not able to relieve their pain. Many doctors usually offer the patient three options, more pain pills which can lead to addiction, doing nothing and suffer miserably with the pain, or surgery, with all of the uncertainties as to whether it will ultimately relieve pain. And so, surgery is promoted, marketed and sold as a relief of pain.
There is, however, a fourth choice, a viable therapy among those that are neither addictive nor intrusive but rather are restorative and in many cases curative. The Holistic Healing Recipe-Self Care: in many advanced ancient cultures wellness and proactive care was a standard of self care and prevention. Keeping balanced, maintaining harmony, and attending to your bodies’ “whispering” request for self care early on were part of a person’s daily activities.
Daily self care included a wholesome diet, herbs, extra vitamins and magnesium supplements, exercise, stretching, yoga, heating with pads, hot tubs, hot springs, mineral springs, Epsom soaking, massage, scraping, acupoint and/or acupuncture treatments, strain-counterstrain, unwinding, chiropractic spinal adjustments, traction and most importantly, sleep hygiene. The Holistic Healing Recipe-Assisted Care [minimal-invasive] approach also included, in cases where one may get behind and need assistance with more intensive therapy, than you can progress to Acupuncture, modern or myofascial acupuncture, dry needling, GunIMS and wet needling, Travell's TrP injections and various other Bio/Prolo/Neural hypodermic injections.
Medicine is the time honored discipline which is entrusted to heal the sick and wounded, not take advantage of the sick and wounded! Here are examples of crimes that when considered within the context of holistic healing has been committed. These crimes are being committed a thousand times a day. These surgeries and other crimes are so common and accepted that people line up to get them, like the natural parts God gave them are full of cancer.
There is a case of a middle aged lady who suffered with long-term pain in her legs and knees. She saw her physician for relief of her pain. She was told by her physician that her knee joint was the cause of her leg pain based on the X-ray finding. This is a false conclusion made by the provider who did the surgery. Pain in the leg may be truly in the joint, but the proper way to prove this is to implement therapy. Therapy will more precisely determine if the pain is in the joint proper. Please note, the knee is a part of the leg and the leg around the knee joint has over thirty (30) parts that can cause pain, the least of which is the joint.
She trusted that her scans proved the degeneration of the joint was causing her pain. She was told that a joint replacement was the best treatment options for her leg pain. She trusted that the doctor had her best interest first. She trusted that after replacement she would not have leg pain. She trusted and believed after six months that her continued pain would eventually go away and that it was caused by scar tissue. She further trusted that the hydrocodone/APAP she was given was the best treatment option for her leg pain.
We can see a clear progression of events that so many patients follow, trusting all the way to the point when she trusted she would not get “hooked” on the narcotics prescribed because of the continued and constant pain. So from the beginning, to trusting that the physician would refer her to a safer more logical treatment before offering the replacement, to the final point of her increasing addiction to the narcotic prescriptions. She trusted the physician, as so many of the patients trust, including another patient, a male whose situation was very the much the same, except he had been in pain for over eight years.
So, as an Alternative and complementary trained provider, I now completely understand the lies being perpetrated on the sick and wounded. If the physician, in the cases above, had simply applied hands-on myofascial release therapy in the beginning of her report of pain, none of the issues would have happened. In my view, these mismanaged cases are 100% the result of the following errors, flaws and deceptions:
- Modern medicine can fix pain with surgery.
- Modern medicine can see pain on an X-ray or MRI.
- Pain is more than likely in a joint.
- Pain cannot come from muscles, fascia or trigger points
- Pain cannot be treated by treating the muscles and fascia.
- A joint is expendable and worth less than the man made parts.
- A man made joint is preferable to the natural joints.
- Failed surgical cases are the fault of the patient or the physical therapy, not the surgery itself.
- Attempts to control cost by removing and negating the much preferred and therapeutic massage, chiropractic care, dry/wet needling and trigger point injections.
- Erecting facades covering the highly effective alternative therapies for pain behind the word “pseudoscience”.
- Allowing the AMA to continue its defamation campaign against Chiropractic providers.
- Closing the minds of physicians and researchers to real evidence by labeling alternatives as anecdotal and thus worthless.
- Portraying science-based medicine as perfect medicine.
I look forward to a concerned and productive discussion on these issues.
Regards,
Stephen S. Rodrigues, MD