Healing The Human Machine
Overview
‘Healing The Human Machine’, is a simple and easily understood guide for those wishing to get off the ‘pain merry go round’. If you’re stuck in the endless cycle of chronic neck, back, joint or other forms of pain, this book has the answers to help you start healing today. Combining his 30 years of patient practice as one of the few, Board Certified Chiropractic Orthopedists in the nation, Dr. Hargis shares the extremely effective methods he has employed to assist the healing of thousands of his patients. Methods you can begin to use on day one. Sold on Amazon this book is an invaluable resource to help you recover from the debilitating conditions listed below.
Table of Contents
Keeping It Simple……………………………………………………1
The Pain Epidemic……………….………………………………….2
Treating Pain: Cracks in the System
Chronic Pain; a Worldwide Problem……..………...…7
America, Drug Nation……………………………….....8
When The Experts Aren’t So Expert………………….10
Overtreating Back Pain, A Profitable Business…….…12
Medicine vs. Chiropractic……………………….…………………18
Healing: Fundamental Concepts…………………………………..33
How we are Injured and how we Heal
The Human Machine……………………………………………….36
Balance, Biomechanics and Soft Tissue
Learning To Heal……………………...……………………………49
Patient Scenarios
Low Back Pain………………………………….…..……75
Neck Pain and Headaches……………………..……..….96
Pinched Nerves……………………………………..…...105
Shoulder Pain……………………………………………107
Shin Spints………………………………………….....…117
Vertigo……………………………………………..….....119
TMJ and Forward Head Posture……………………….122
TFL Syndrome…………………………………………..127
Constipation and Lumbar Spine Degeneration………..132
Carpal Tunnel…………..…………………………..……134
The Carpal Shield…………..………………………..…..144
Calf Pain………………………..……………………..….146
Hip Pain……………………………...………………..….149
Elbow Pain ‘Epicondylitis’……………………....…...….152
The Aging Spine……………………………………….....156
Cluster Headaches……………………………………..…158
Knee Pain and Bunions…………………………………..164
The Victory Brace……………………………….….…….173
Fibromyalgia…………………………………….….….....175
Spinal and Biomechanical Conditions
Lumbar Compression Syndrome……………….……….183
Disc Protrussions and Herniations……..……….………185
Disc Degeneration and Spinal Instability……….………188
Leg Length Discrepancy and Joint Degeration…...……189
Spinal and Foraminal Stenosis…………………….…….192
Spondylolesthesis………………………………..…….…194
Ankylosis Spondylitis…………………………………….196
Plantar Fasciitis…………………………………….........199
Metatarsalgia, Morton’s Toe and Neuroma………...….202
Coccyx Pain ‘Coccydynia’……………………………....202
Osteoarthritis………………………..……………………203
Foreward Head Posture, Neck Pain and Degeneration..205
The Curve Restorer ‘Neck Correct’……..………………208
Migraine Headache and its Origin…………..………….210
The Mismanagemen of Scoliosis……… …………..…...215
Medical X-rays of the Spine; a Limited Interpretation…221
Topics of Special Interest
Spinal Degeneration and Nerve Pain……………………242
Obesity and Low Back Pain……………………………..243
Anxiety and Pain…………………………………………244
Restful Sleep, Sleep Apnea and Obesity………………...245
Stomach Sleeping and Spinal Decay…………………….247
The Menacing Seat……………………………………….247
Cervical Pillows…………………………………………..248
Erect X-rays and MRI’s………………………………….248
Book Bags and Kids………………………………………250
Weather and Pain……………………………….………..250
Shaken not Stirred, The Auto Insurance Scam…………251
Tricks for Maintaining Healthy Sleep Positions…….….252
The Problem with NSAIDS……………………………..253
Natural Anti-Inflammatory Aids for Healing……….….255
Falling in the Elderly…………………………………….256
Baby Needs and Adjustment Too…………………….…257
Growing Pains…………………………………………...258
The Managed Care Scam…………………………….….259
Look at Yourself and Those You Care About……….…260