When Claudia and I decided to start a family together we struggled.

I don’t remember how many miscarriages there were, and I don’t want to…

We saw every OB/Gyn in our area and started to think it might be impossible for us to have a child together.

After years of disappointment, we finally got in front of a world class expert in reproductive medicine. Don’t get me wrong, the others were board certified, well intentioned physicians.However, they didn’t deliver the goods.

Shortly after sitting down with us and looking at Claudia’s assessment information Dr. Mario knew what the problems were and what to do about them. He presented us with a logical plan of action and a promise that if we held up our end of the bargain, we’d be holding a baby in our arms in approximately 9 months time.

He was right. It went exactly as he told us it would. My son is a constant reminder to me that “impossible” is usually an opinion, not a fact.

I regularly have new patients who don’t think it’s possible to get rid of their chronic pain. Sometimes the supposed impossibility is tied to an exercise or activity. For example, it’s very common for people to think it’s impossible to ever get into Position Three of Couch Stretch. It’s almost as common for people to say that they don’t think it’s possible that they’ll ever do Couch Stretch without thigh or low back pain. 

However, very commonly, these “impossible” milestones are achieved! I can think of two examples in the last month alone.

Unfortunately, I also regularly come across people who have pursued strategies to solve their chronic pain problems that made their goals of pain-free living seem impossible.

Just this week Claudia had a Discovery Session with a woman who has been told to get Prolotherapy for her chronic, bilateral hip pain. She also has numbness that goes down her right thigh/leg.

However, she also displays big, obvious alignment problems in her lower body. Unfortunately her chiropractor and chronic pain doc have urged her to get Prolotherapy.

The odds of Prolotherapy solving those alignment problems are very close to ZERO. I didn’t say that her problems are impossible to solve. No, I said that it is impossible for Prolotherapy to solve her problems. There’s a critically important difference between the two.

Not all chronic pain problems can be traced back to posture/malalignment as the cause, but a very large percentage can be. In such cases, any therapeutic intervention that does not effectively address the malalignment is doomed to failure before it’s begun.

As I have said many times before (a quote I first heard from Dr. Curtis Westersund),…”no amount of the wrong medicine will get you better”.

So, although you may’ve taken a very long and winding road to get relief from chronic pain, and you’ve probably even had experiences that suggest that solving your pain problems are “impossible”. Nevertheless, the Alignment First Protocol is a self-customizing corrective exercise system you can use at home to eliminate the big alignment problems that commonly cause chronic pain problems. If you come to the clinic or work with me using video conferencing I can  guide you through your rehab training even faster and easier!

My 11-year-old son Jack is proof positive that the best way to solve ” impossible” is to find someone who does it for a living…

Until next time.

Stay healthy,

Geoff Dakin