Step 1 Find the target point.

There are both direct and indirect pain symptoms. Each can be viewed separately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct and Indirect Injury sites

 

If you stump your toe on a rock, that is a direct injury site and that site is the source of the pain. It makes sense to treat the injury site on the toe. But, most nagging, chronic pains recur on any unexplained basis (back aches, headaches, and joint aches) and must have indirect injury sites.

 

Look at the case where someone complains of pins & needles accompanied by numbness in their arm. On different occasions, they experience unbearable headaches. This is an example of an indirect injury site. Conventional teaching declares that the pain is triggered at the point where it is experienced. Over the years, the term Trigger Point is used to describe the pain trigger.

 

Back in the late 1890’s the father of modern neurology, invented the term Dermatomes to explain pathways of pain in the body.

 

He explained (and others like him have followed in establishing) that pain that is experienced in the outer limbs is very likely spinal irritations that are simply experienced in the outer limbs but the true cause is on the spine.

 

Trigger point may not be after all the source of pain, another extension of the nerve path point could be the cause of the pain.

 

The wong way medical method holds that the source of the pain is the “target point”. The target may be the same as a trigger point in a direct injury site, but it is likely that in an indirect injury site the trigger point is not the source of the pain. The origin of the pain is likely to be the target point that could be some distance from the trigger point.

 

The spine is known to carry nerves that are distributed over the rest of the body, and the spine is the weakest part of the muscular-skeletal your body. It is not unrealistic to except that many undiagnosed pains for injuries to the spine and nerves radiate pain to other parts of the body.

 

In different sciences or cultures, pain pathways have different terminologies: Meridians, Acupuncture points and Dermatomes demonstrate some of these terms. All of these terms attempt to identify the difference between the point of pain and where the pain is experienced.

 

Consider the case where someone complains of pins & needles and numbness in their arm and they occasionally have unbearable headaches. This is an example of an indirect injury site. Often these pains are treated as unrelated - and result not in a cure but result in recurring agony. A normal treatment prescribes physical therapy for arm symptoms and pain killers for her head ache. This can continue for years and may result in other aggravations such as drug reactions or poor posture. It can even modify someone’s behavior - all because something as simple as a stumped toe was not diagnosed properly.