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Ligament Stretch Syndrome The Toilet Bowl of Adrenal Exhaustion by Dr. Arlo Gordin

Many people suffer from stressed-out, tired adrenal glands, a very common problem.  The typical symptoms can include fatigue, headaches, pain and aches, inflammatory conditions (problems that end in “-itis”, bronchitis, dermatitis, colitis, etc.), low blood sugar, rashes, swellings, allergies, asthma, or numerous others.  Low adrenals often cause, underlie, or aggravate many health problems.

Of those many people with worn-down adrenals, a significant group has a condition known as “ligament stretch syndrome”.  This problem gets its name from the effect it often has on the joints.  When the adrenal hormones are so low that they leave the joints and ligaments (tissues that hold the bones of joints in place and allow for their determined range of movement) undernourished, a person will fail a test from Applied Kinesiology, the chiropractic specialty that developed muscle-testing as a health analytic method.  The doctor tests the muscle strength in an arm or leg, then gives a quick tug on the arm or leg tested.  On instantly re-testing, the muscle strength is greatly reduced.  People of good adrenal health don’t weaken after such a small quick jerk across the joints, only the ones with “ligament stretch syndrome”.

If you have ligament stretch syndrome then you score below the typical and common low adrenal patient.  At that point you really have hit the toilet bowl of adrenal gland exhaustion, decreased function, and reduced hormone output.  Any of the typical low adrenal health conditions exist for the ligament stretch patient, but special patterns of symptoms tend to be found.  As a “ligament stretch syndrome” patient you may have some of these following described symptoms, usually not all of them.  Fatigue can be present and can be extreme; like your engine never really gets going.  Because the joints are poorly kept up with hormones, you could feel that you can’t do normal physical or athletic activities.  The result is new pain and a sense of injury.  “I can’t play racquetball, or I’ll hurt a wrist or ankle.”  “I can’t work out, or I’ll hurt my back or knee (or whatever!)”  These migrating multiple pains could cause you to be so careful of physical activities, so that both family and friends begin to think you're losing it.  You may consider that you've become a hypochondriac, but all of the pains and symptoms that are real; the little things that shouldn’t cause pain, could make you miserable.  And your injuries don’t heal well.  The ligament stretch syndrome patient often has multiple areas of pain, multiple areas of chronic injury.

You may feel constantly mis-aligned or out-of-adjustment.  But this is the patient who complains that chiropractic adjustments don’t “hold”.  Even worse, adjustments may have caused pain (a great adjustment doesn’t hurt a patient, not usually, unless ligament stretch syndrome is present).  So some feel a need for an adjustment, but what’s the use?  I feel I need one, it might hurt me, so I can’t have one...what a hassle!

A terrible hopelessness affects many of these patients.  They feel that they can never get well.  It’s a hopeless type of depression.  Their inflammatory conditions can be horrible.  Patients with fibromyalgia (the horrible pain in joints and muscles) almost always have “ligament stretch syndrome”, as do people with severe auto-immune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis.  Headaches can be of the more severe types, often migraines.  Poor immunity and frequent colds or infections can result.

What a mess!  These patients are the doctor’s and chiropractor’s nightmare:  non-recovery and constant severe complaints.  Until the research uncovering ligament stretch syndrome was made, these patients had no likely hope of health.  And they are magnets for medications and the prescription pad: pain killers, anti-inflammatories, migraine drugs, arthritis meds, even anti-depressants.  Some "self-medicate" abusing alcohol or other substances.

The treatment for this condition is specific.  The patient must take the correct adrenal nutrient, often trickling the dose every waking hour, at first.  The adrenals must be “kick-started” in this way or they usually won’t “wake-up” at all.  The average patient will complete this hourly dosage in one week;  some will take longer, and some shorter.  When they pass the ligament stretch test, they’re off the hourly adrenal.  Now they’ve graduated up to terrible adrenals, still lower than most patients with low adrenals!  (At this point adjustments become painless and more helpful.)  And still more adrenal repair needs to be done.

If you have this problem, you must learn all the information on low adrenals and low blood sugar, and do everything possible to help them repair, and eliminate all things possible that tear them down.  Diet, stress management and supplementation are positioned at the top of the list of useful things.  Watch our videos on YouTube to learn in detail about adrenals:  Energy, Blood Sugar is the one that explains adrenal health, disease and recovery in detail.

With the breakthrough of understanding the diagnosis and treatment of this condition, some of the most tortured patients that ever cross a doctor’s door can be miraculously helped, brought to a high level of physical and mental health and well-being.  Severe asthma, pain syndromes, allergic, headache, migraine, auto-immune patients can most frequently be brought "back to life".

Testing for whether this problem exists is easy and fast.  We test/screen it on every new patient.  Because when it is present, if not treated first, we'll be banging our heads on the door of failure. 

If you sense that this information sounds like you, do yourself the greatest health favor ever, and have it checked.  If it tests positive and you do the things that reverse it, you may likely find the light of health shining on you in ways you've forgotten or lost hope of attaining.

Subluxation, Nerve Malfunction & Resulting Degeneration/Arthritis Effects on Your Health by Dr. Arlo Gordin

Your health is something natural.  You get it.  Somehow your body can turn a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into its cells and tissues.  It can heal a wound, rebuild itself, fight off an infection.  Scientists can observe that life is intelligent, responding appropriately to changes both inside and out.

Your nerve system is the one in charge of all of that. Of the trillion cells that make up your body, one out of every 15 cells is a nerve cell, whose job it is to carry information that senses and controls and coordinates all of life’s functions.  It is most crucial that your nerve system function properly, and has no interference to its electrical signals.

Certain things are needed for a healthy nerve system:  adequate rest and sleep, exercise, proper nutrition including correct minerals in your blood.  And other conditions that generate interference to nerve signals must be handled.  Subluxation is the chiropractic word for the nerve malfunctions, the "short circuits" that occur when the joints of the spine (or other joints) are displaced (sometimes minimally), and damaged (in the soft tissues:  ligaments, cartilages and spinal discs).  The result is a lack of healthy nerve signal transmission, resulting eventually in pain and in diseases from failing organs, because all your organs need healthy nerve signalling to function and do their jobs.

You have probably subluxated your spine multiple times in your life.  Falls, accidents, improper posture, sports injuries and lifting improperly are a few ways that a spine can get subluxated.  Some infants begin a sick life with subluxations from the pressures of the birth process itself.  You could try to live a life so inactive, never at risk of injury, that you’d never risk a subluxation.  But that wouldn’t be fun, and your muscles would be so weak for lack of exercise that they wouldn’t hold your spine in alignment, so you’d end up subluxated anyway.

You will hear my patients talk about their severe and chronic illnesses that were cured with effective chiropractic care:

Headaches Throat  conditions Bronchitis

Colitis, Constipation Migraines Laryngitis

Liver abnormalities Bladder infections Neck Pain

Shoulder, Arm, Elbow pain Gall bladder trouble Urinary tract disorders

TMJ (Jaw) pain Hand or wrist pain Digestive disorders

Chronic female pain Muscle spasms Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Stomach pain Infertility Nervousness

Tendonitis Ulcers Decreased sex drive

Fatigue Numbness Hiatal Hernia

Low  back pain Dizziness Thyroid illness

Cardiac Illness Sciatica Depression

Asthma Immune deficiency Leg pain, numbness

Eye & Ear disorders Lung disease Skin Rashes

Knee problems Foot pain & many others

When you realize that subluxation causes dangerous interference to nerves and disrupts health, you can understand this broad range of conditions.

Subluxations are caused not only by physical trauma or misuse of your body.  Emotional stress, chemical, dietary, and organ aggravations result in nerve malfunctions and subluxation.  Some subluxations are true pinched nerves (especially spinal ones).  Others are nerve interferences to the many nerves within and around your joints (jaw, knee, hip, shoulder, wrist, etc.) that have problems (“proprioceptive nerves”) that carry vital signals to and from the brain.

Your subluxations can sometimes be seen visibly as misalignments.  But mostly they are not visible to the naked eye.  The pinching, stretching, or irritation to nerves is their first ill-effect.  Weakness or tightness and spasm of muscles adjacent to or served by those nerves often occurs.  Inflammation, pain and numbness can be one result.  Changes to the blood flow can cut off the lifeline to organs and tissues, because all arteries and blood delivery are controlled by correct nerve signals.  Resulting control errors of organs, and organ illnesses and breakdown, immune inadequacy and failure causes numerous diagnosed illnesses, whose causes are listed as “unknown” to medical science.

Spinal subluxations start in Phase 1 with spinal vertebral misalignments, some loss of normal spinal curves and nerve short-circuits and malfunctions.  Pain and other organ illness symptoms will start in Phase 1.  This is most commonly the phase of spinal malfunction in young people.  It demonstrates no degeneration yet.

Phase 2 Subluxation-Degeneration occurs when years of uncorrected subluxation have caused malformations and disc loss in your spinal vertebral joints.  Bone spurs (malformations and distortions that can look like a bird’s beak) on the vertebrae represent the beginning of pathological joint fusion.  Your spinal motion worsens; your spinal discs shrink and narrow, degenerate and begin to die.  This is the phase of degeneration and “arthritis”.  It has numerous names:  Osteoarthritis and Degenerative Joint Disease are two of them.  In Phase 2 the nerve problems worsen, as symptoms and illnesses will also do.  When I see your x-rays in Phase 2, I will grade your degeneration as to how far through Phase 2 they are.  For example if the area of your spine is 60% “gone” I will grade it as Phase 2.6It is important to know that you can slow and improve degeneration (Arthritis) of your spine with precision Chiropractic which restores motion where there is none, and state-of-the-art nutritional supplementation.

Phase 3 occurs as degeneration is finalizing and the spine has reached permanent joint fusion and chronic health failure.  At each Phase, 1, 2, and 3 the person gets worsening mobility in the spinal areas affected, and worsening health ill-effects from the increasingly short-circuited nerves to the areas muscles and organs of the body those nerves go to and from.

Detecting the location and specifics of your subluxations is the job of a doctor of chiropractic.  Using my Advanced Applied Kinesiology, the chiropractic specialty which developed muscle-testing as a diagnostic method, I can identify your subluxations accurately.  X-rays and other testing methods may be used to provide valuable information on your nerve and organ function.

My Advanced Applied Kinesiology's methods correct by application of precise chiropractic adjustments, in which the spine is restored to improved motion and position. This provides the amazing and precise method of correcting your subluxations.  It is a fact that how chronic (how much time you've had them) and how severe your problems are, the more work it takes to correct.  The process could be compared to straightening teeth, which also requires the correct amount of time and treatment.  Follow-through to complete the corrective phase of treatment is the best course of action.  When you are fully aware of the facts of subluxation-degeneration, doing a half-baked or temporary fix, only to have a problem return and worsen again, would not make the best sense to you.

By combining for you the most advanced chiropractic methods with nutritional and natural health expertise as I do in my clinic, stupendous results and my many “miracle” cases are made possible. 

I feel that people with nerve and spinal problems who haven't gotten to receive the benefit of high quality chiropractic and natural health care is like experiencing life before there were flush toilets or like a life without modern dentistry.  Sort of primitive, not so healthy and not very fun!

It is vital for you to understand the importance of nerves and your spine in your health, the integral role they and your glands play in running your entire well-being, and the importance of correcting subluxations that are quite universally sustained by all of us, to enjoy your life as optimally healthy.