No matter how recent or how long ago it happened, no matter how minor or serious your injury – YOU CAN GET BETTER.

In my thirty-seven years as a physician, I have seen countless recoveries that seem miraculous. But not to me. For I know recovery comes from the body’s remarkable ability to heal with the right kind of help.

Sometimes patients walk into my office right after an injury. Working together we design an effective plan for their recovery. Unfortunately far too often I see patients months or years after an injury, when their health has been seriously compromised. They suffer from crippling headaches, debilitating fatigue, mysterious weight gain, insomnia, neck and back pain, sexual dysfunction, depression, anxiety, vertigo, memory problems, digestive problems, vision problems, immune disorders, heart arrhythmias, chronic pain, and a host of other maladies that seem to have appeared out of nowhere.

Most of the time no one realized there was any connection between the patients’ spiral of suffering and the injury that started it. Many of these patients have bounced from doctor to doctor, tried practitioners of every stripe, in a seemingly futile quest to get well. They are often dismissed by the medical profession as “head cases” whose suffering is imagined or emotionally based. These long-suffering victims often try to live a normal life while gallantly putting up with tremendous pain and dysfunction.

To me these gallant souls are not head cases. The consequences of traumatic injury on the human body and spirit can be insidious, causing problems far away from the site of the original insult, affecting almost any organ system, and throwing its victims into a spiral of loneliness, isolation, and despair.

Finally after a friend has pestered them long enough, they walk into my office. When I see them, they have despaired of ever feeling well.

None of it is necessary. Most of them can find profound relief with the right kind of treatment.