Imagine for a moment that you have terrible joint pain. Let us assume the pain is in the knee, though feel free to choose another location. The agony has gotten so bad and so constant that you are forced to see your orthopedic surgeon. He or she tells you that you need a knee replacement, that your knee has degenerated so much that the cartilage is gone, you are bone on bone, and your only path to relief is getting a new knee.
Is there another option? Another perspective? Let's take a step back and start from the beginning:
Every time we do anything, from running and playing sports to walking and lifting up our children, force enters our bodies. It is the job of the muscles to absorb that force, and when they do that job correctly we can keep doing our activities over and over again without pain. Problems occur when the muscles don't absorb all of that force, so it is then diverted to areas like tendons, ligaments, and discs. When even small amounts of force get into these areas continuously over long periods of time, these areas begin to degenerate and we have joint pain.
In this sense, the muscles are like the shock absorbers on a car. If they don't absorb the force of the car going over bumps, the body of the car will get damaged just like the joint. When the car is damaged for this reason, are you going to buy a new car? Or are you simply going to replace the shock absorbers?
Assuming you like the car to begin with, replacing the shocks is the clear choice. Following this analogy back to the body, the doctor has presented the option of buying a new car instead of fixing the problem with the shock absorbers. This option does not fix the problem. Now, instead of force being transmitted to the original knee, it is going to be transmitted to the artificial one. The artificial one will wear down just as the original one did, and it too will have to be replaced. So even if you do get the new knee, don't think for a moment that the problem is fixed. The underlying issue of force absorption still needs to be addressed.
What if there were another way entirely? A way to dramatically alter the way that the body functions, a way to ensure that the muscles absorb all of the force and keep it out of the injured joint? What if, at the same time the muscles were keeping force from re-aggravating the joint, we could draw large amounts of blood to the joint and allow the body's own healing and repair mechanisms to take over? That sounds like a recipe for reversing the real problem.
Such a recipe is, in fact, a very effective way to fix the problem. One example of this recipe has already helped many, many grateful people get out of pain and avoid surgery. It is In-Balance followed by ARPwave Therapy.
Developed by Dr. John Pietila, the In-Balance protocols will make sure that your muscles are being properly stimulated at the neurological level to absorb the force that enters your body. This process lays the foundation for healing, as it ensures that our progress will not be sabotaged by constant re-aggravation of the injured area. Once in balance, it is then time for ARPwave therapy.
ARPwave therapy uses a very unique, direct current modality called the ARP, and it is applied in a way that is vastly different from traditional stim. This therapy is unique because it is able to accomplish several things at once. While building strength and improving range of motion, the signal from the ARP simultaneously breaks up scar tissue and flushes inflammation while it increases blood flow and forces the body to break compensation patterns. In traditional physical therapy these steps each require their own phase, and each can last several weeks. Compressing these phases into one is not only more efficient, it is more effective because it allows the body's healing mechanisms to work synergistically to bring about greater healing.
The end result of this process is that the underlying problem is gone, and the body has its greatest opportunity to heal the symptoms of degeneration. And isn't that what we're really after, empowering the body to perform the healing miracles it is capable of?
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