Modern medicine has failed to address the cause of pain for so many of us. Are you ready for a new understanding of pain? Read on…
My goal is to help people achieve true healing through a more complete understanding of the underlying causes of chronic pain
Not many doctors understand the importance of the order of therapies. There are many skillful doctors in their professions with dedicated desires to help your problems, but it is rare to meet a doctor willing to go beyond their training and think outside of the box.
More important than the “right” therapy is the “right order” of therapy. Most of the time, even though doctors are doing their best in trying to help their patients, the patient feels no better with no permanent solution.
Nerve entrapment is mostly a result of your body’s prolonged compensatory process
“Any nerve anywhere can potentially become entrapped. When it does, patients will usually experience pain, numbness, and weakness, in that order, depending on the severity of the entrapment.”
– Aaron Filler, MD, PhD, neurologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
He continues to say, “The nerve becomes irritated – pinched, squeezed, narrowed, or stuck on something, a condition called an adhesion.” Dr. Allan Belzberg, MD, director of the Peripheral Nerve Center and associate professor of neurological surgery at John Hopkins in Baltimore, MD. also added, “When injured by trauma, repetitive motion, or a metabolic problem, the nerve may be more susceptible to another injury.”
Your body reacts to injury to protect and heal itself through inflammation
From sports injuries, car accidents, falls, sprains and strains, and repetitive use injuries, all these may cause sluggish or slowed down circulation of blood and interstitial/lymph fluid. These injuries may continue to make the fluid congested, which in turn makes the fluid “sticky”, or glue-like, in the spaces where nerves and blood vessels and lymphatic vessels reside.
Depending on the duration and degree of the compensatory process, the fluid in the space becomes more and more “sticky” (called “adhesion”), eventually turning into “hard” layers, which feel like hardened or calcified tissue.
Toxins or waste products may also build up and be deposited in these spaces. These deposits can be felt in the tissues, the spaces, and on the surface of the bones. They manifest as hard, round, and sand- or grain-like. They can feel like thin or thick wires, and many times, they can feel like lumps, nodes, or knots.
Symptoms are directly proportional to the degree of the compensatory process. Often, the compensatory process can affect the nerves, then you have nerve symptoms such as sharp pain, numbness, tingling or burning sensations. If it affects blood vessels, then a vast variety of problems can occur, from skin color changes to internal organ dysfunctions.
Injury to the knee can initially affect it’s function with simple symptoms. If left untreated or improperly treated, it could result in arthritic problems in the knee decades later.
Injury to the lower back can cause digestive problems, such as constipation, leaky gut, Crohn’s or Celiac disease, as well as bladder issues involving frequent or difficult urination.
Injury to ribs can cause breathing problems or heart problems, like palpitations and chest pain, with negative results on tests.
Injury to the neck can cause brain inflammation, food sensitivity, autoimmune issues, seizures, neurological issues, pain from the shoulders to the hand, lower back pain, TMJ symptoms, thyroid problems, headaches & migraines, vertigo, or dizziness and balance issues.
The key to dealing with inflammation is awareness. Do not ignore any kind of pain or symptom. Write down your pain or symptoms in a journal as you notice them. Be specific with the date, time, and what you were doing when you noticed it. Try to think of what could be causing the pain or symptom.
With this information, find a doctor who understands Dr. Kim’s Pain Theory and is willing to perform testings and explain how their therapy will help your problems, before the use of medication and supplements for treatment. Get second and third opinions from other doctors to help save a lot of time and money in the long run. Once you determine your choice of doctors or therapies, allow three to six months of treatment. If you do not see positive results, then find a new doctor.
The most common cause for chronic injuries is being involved in a car accident. It may take more than 10 years for an injury to show up as a serious problem after a car accident, if the injuries were not treated properly. Amazingly, all these problems can start from these spaces in between muscles and bones, by affecting nerves, blood and lymph vessels.
There are spaces between your muscles, as well as between your bones. Your nerves, blood vessels & lymphatic vessels all travel through these spaces, which act like pipelines underneath roadways. Interstitial fluid allows for smooth passageways within these spaces, similar to the lubricant in engines.
Fascia (a connective tissue, primarily collagen, that form sheets, or bands, beneath the skin to attach, stabilize, enclose, and separate muscles and other internal organs) compartmentalize muscles, groups of muscles, and organs.
Whether the injury is acute, like a sprained ankle or car accident, or the injury occurs over a period of time, like repetitive motion or sitting at a desk all day, the body may start the first & initial step of healing through acute inflammation.
Inflammation is the body’s natural process to repair the injured body and to restore its function. If that does not occur, the compensatory process will then begin to help the body sustain functionality at all costs with symptoms of discomfort, uneasiness, and pain. The body will continue this process until a dead-end is reached.
If you know how to deal with the initial inflammation, you can help your body tremendously. If you are not able to completely heal within a short amount of time, the inflammation can become chronic and the cost to your body will be an endless fight against your own compensatory process.
When interstitial fluids become calcified and hardened, they can cause a whole range of adverse health effects. In order to heal, we must break up these deposits. I call this process the “Excavating Process”. It is very painful but highly effective. Without breaking off these layers, other therapies may not work.
My school of thought is “kNOw PAIN, kNOw GAIN”. If done properly, the pain inflicted by the doctor or therapist should be applied during the therapy sessions and the tenderness should last for 3 to 5 days maximum. If it lasts more than a week, it means that their case is an extreme case and more modalities should be added or included.
Acupuncture is one of the best modalities when dealing with energy medicine. There is an abundance of clinical information about the benefits of acupuncture gathered through more than 5,000 years of accumulated skills and knowledge. Other techniques are used to enhance acupuncture therapy, including herbal remedies, Chi exercises, and physical therapy. However, when patients have more severe physical congestion, or blockages, acupuncture’s ability to heal is limited.
Massage therapy is one of the more useful modalities with an excellent potential to help all people. However, most massage therapists lack the physical strength and training necessary to be effective. There are many excellent massage therapists, but I have not met or heard of any that possess the skill to break up thick, hard, calcified layers of tissue build-up.
Chiropractors are one of the most important foundations to our health because without proper alignment of our spine and joints, there is a limited chance for complete healing. However, it is very difficult to find a chiropractor who acknowledges the need to understand the complete connection between bones and muscles, and how improper adjustment can cause even more soft tissue damage.
Physical therapy is the best way to help complete the healing process. After the soft tissue is ready, re-education and strengthening of soft tissue and muscles can be built on a proper foundation.
There are many so called “green MD” Naturopaths who are equipped with excellent clinical skills in examinations and prescribing tests, supplements and herbs. However, the depth of their understanding and experience in pain is very limited.
Surgery and medication may be extremely important to save lives and to address immediate dangers to our health. However, there is no surgery or medication to heal the functions or to cure the problems.
Better quality of blood and better circulation of blood enhances your body’s own healing power
The most effective methods of detoxification should accomplish the following goals simultaneously:
Better quality of blood and better circulation of blood help enhance your own innate healing power. That is the best gift you could give yourself.
For more information on this total cleansing program, visit Living Water Healthy Cleansing Center
First thing we think of when it comes to improving circulation is “Exercise”, such as cardio, weight lifting, and other gym equipment. While this is a great tool to help promote circulation, relaxation is important as well. Techniques like meditation, massage, and breathing exercises help to improve circulation. However, these all work well under one condition: if there are no blockages or calcified layers! If there are such layers, you are fighting against your own body’s compensatory process.
Once the soft tissue build-ups and hard, tight muscles are released, there will be more waste products and toxins dumped into the spaces of interstitial and lymphatic fluids. The blood vessels need to carry the waste products and toxins. Then they are filtered through the liver where can undergo the detoxification process. Water-soluble toxins will be excreted through the kidneys, whereas the fat-soluble toxins will go through the gallbladder via bile, to be stored until mealtime.
The fats from the meal stimulate the gallbladder to squeeze the bile into the small intestines. The toxins in the bile then flow into the small intestines to mix with the food processing the fat-soluble nutrients in the food. At the same time, toxins in the bile continue to move through the gut with the ultimate goal being to exit out of the body, through the feces.
For most people who have leaky gut issues, this means that their gut is leaking out the germs, waste products, undigested food particles, and toxins from the small intestines back into the spaces filled with interstitial and lymphatic fluids and then returning to blood circulation.
They then go back to the Liver again and repeat the same vicious cycle again and again, or deposit them into nerve and fat cells produced by the liver.
Individualized plan based on test results
Consists of:
– 5 days of soup with organic vegetables
– 2 days (weekend) of grapefruit
Detoxing is essential to healing and this process helps eliminate toxins from the body.
Although the bodywork can be painful, it is essential in order to break up the calcified layers in your body that have built up toxins
Success stories demonstrating the effectiveness of Dr. Kim’s healing techniques
She had scheduled for knee replacement surgery in 2 months when she came in with extreme pain and difficulty with walking.
I explained the pain theory and suggested 4 sessions of treatment. After a few sessions, she started noticing dramatic reduction in her pain level and walking ability improved.
And she decided to cancel the surgery and up to present time she does not have nearly as much knee pain.
She came in with two full shopping bags full of supplements for her autoimmune conditions that had been worsening everyday over the last 10 years. When she arrived, she was wearing clean, non-toxic gloves, a mask and a hat. She had been on a very strict diet. She has been coming to a nutritionist on regular basis to check on supplements with hope to find a magic bullet and to avoid what foods she is allergic to. Environmentally, extremely sensitive to everything around her, inside and outside of her house. She was totally in despair but never gave up…
I reviewed her history and found out she had had a major car accident 3 years prior to all these symptoms and had been getting worse. Thus, I explained the importance of good circulation and how my bodywork will help with improving the circulation so that her body’s innate healing power can restore its own functions optimally.
I suggested bodywork once everyday by me for 2 weeks.
After 2 weeks, she reported more than 80% of her symptoms disappeared.
She had had a life long battle with her health for more than 40 years of her life. She had seen so many specialists in southern states and finally one specialist at Mayo clinic who told her as a last advice that she should move to Portland Oregon to find a doctor who can help her. She did move to Portland and took almost 3~4 years to come into my office. Her dreadful migraine headaches with very active seizures and uncontrollable blood pressure, range from over 200 systolic to under 40 diastolic and heart rate from over 150 to 50 and unpredictable severe anxiety attacks. She had been on very strong prescription medications to control her symptoms without much success. From history, I found out her first car accident at age 1, which she did not know anything about because nobody told her. But I was able to palpate the injured area on the neck and kept asking her injury related history until her mom told her about the car accident at age 1. Starting with bodywork and using many other different modalities and time of therapy, she is now free from major medications, including psychotic medication and migraine headaches and seizures.
This patient has a classical migraine headache. She has been on medications for more than 30 years to control the pain. I suggested her to have twice a week for two weeks of my bodywork to see how much it will help. After two weeks of treatment, she was able to free from medications and head pain.
He came with no hope but giving up his occupation as a farmer. He has been feeling worse energy, mental clarity, very difficult to concentrate, and bunion pain on a big toe. I found out that he had been exposed to lots of sprays and chemicals related farming around the valley area.
I formulated his total cleansing program for 10 days. Then he started feeling so much better but he could not believe his improvement so he tried his own ways of proving… The improvement was real and kept healing enough not to give up his farming up to present time.
She came in for sudden onset heart palpitation triggered by walking uphill at a certain same distance. After examined her back, I explained to her soft tissue build ups, I found, on rib and thoracic spinal joints and this may be one of the main triggers to cause the heart to behave such way of palpitation. After several sessions on the back and ribs, she started improving on the heart palpitation and was able to walk all the way to hilltop without the heart symptoms.
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