Therapy Central is a little yellow house in downtown Round Rock, Texas. It is a group of massage therapists whose CENTRAL focus is THERAPY. Our business has been built upon the premise that there are entirely too many people in constant, chronic pain and that that is not acceptable.
Therapy Central of Round Rock is for all of the people who have been told,“there is nothing that can be done for you.” “Take this or that prescription drug.” “Go SEE someone because the pain is all in your head.” “Go to a pain management program so you can deal with your pain.” “Come and see me for 36 visits and I think we can fix you right up!” “If I can’t help you, nobody can.” “There must be something wrong with you.” “You’re faking your pain.” “Why are you so depressed?” “Just try to forget about it and it will go away.”
Sound familiar? For all of you
who have ever heard your doctor or therapist or family member or ‘friend’
say anything like that, listen up. Your pain is real. Your pain, though,
IS
NOT THE PROBLEM! Your pain is simply the method your body uses to
tell you that something is wrong. Something needs to be done to correct
the situation.
THE PROBLEM IS that the medical
community today thinks, or acts like pain IS the problem. Because of that
there have been untold numbers of pain medications developed to ease your
pain. Doctors will prescribe the magic trifecta … pain meds, anti-inflammatories
and muscle relaxers to reduce pain. There are countless meds for migraines,
cluster headaches, stress headaches, tension headaches, low back pain, joint
pain and, the list goes on and on. Pain management clinics operate with
the intent to help you “manage” your pain. Imagine that! MANAGING
your pain! (Wouldn’t you rather manage the Astros or your investments?)
Surgeons routinely clip nerves to reduce pain; replace joints to reduce
pain; perform back surgeries to reduce pain; perform carpel tunnel surgery
to reduce pain; remove calcium deposits and bone
spurs
to reduce pain; remove ribs to reduce pain; shave off bone in joints to
reduce pain; prescribe physical therapy to reduce pain; perform oral surgery
to realign jaws to reduce pain and if all else fails, they will give you
the ever-popular steroid injection to reduce pain.
How many of you have tried one or more of these …and the pain is still there? The pain, in many cases is even more severe than before, but now they are no longer the healers, they are the excuse makers. They are the finger pointers. It can’t be them that failed. It must be you. You don’t have a medical degree. What do YOU know? You haven’t been practicing medicine for 20 years. What do you know?
What we know is that it has never
been our goal to manage or reduce pain. Our goal has been TO ELIMINATE THE
UNDERLYING CAUSES OF THE PAIN. When you do that, the pain is not reduced,
IT’S GONE. What the medical community has forgotten is that it can’t
heal your body. Your body, though, has
an
almost infinite capacity to HEAL ITSELF if given the proper environment.
Just so we’re clear, the ‘proper environment’ rarely includes
pharmaceutical drugs or surgery. There, I’ve said it. Now you can
click out of this web site and have your doctor cut you to pieces or drug
you into oblivion but first, a question:
What would you do if, while driving your car your ‘check engine’ light came on? Today’s standard medical procedure would be for you to climb out of your car, pop the hood, find the wire feeding the offending light and clip the wire. Problem solved? Of course not! Your engine light is not the problem just as your pain is not the problem. It is a symptom of a problem …THAT CAN BE CORRECTED. Welcome to the beginning of the end of your pain.
