Speaker (clinician) argues that pain harms physical and mental health via increased sympathetic tone and stress responses, causing downstream effects on immunity, digestion, metabolism, and mental wellbeing. The speaker claims that reducing pain—through dry needling, chiropractic adjustment, and basic rehab—constitutes wellness care; they assert dry needling is highly effective and that combined with chiropractic skills clinicians can deliver comprehensive pain-management-based wellness.
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I know there's the wellness guys out there going, hey, I don't want to chase pain. That's fine. But pain is bad for your health. Pain is bad for your health, it's bad for your mental health, it's bad for your physical health. I mean, if you've been to any chiropractic seminar, you know, no C section leads to increased sympathetic tone, which increases the stress response, which means a lot of bad things. Immune system goes in the dumper. Digestion, metabolism, mental health, it all goes in the dumper. So if we can reduce pain, the evidence is there, folks. If you can get people out of pain, you're making them healthy. I think being a pain management doctor is being a wellness doctor and doing dry needling. Integrating chiropractic, you can be the pain management because if you put the needle in the spot and that does a lot of the heavy lifting, according to the evidence, they call it placebo effect, but they don't realize it's just that the needle is wildly effective. And then if you're a good chiropractor and you're a good adjuster and you have just a modicum of rehab experience and knowledge, you can be all three in one, and there's no other profession on the planet that could compete with you.
