Healing Ancient Wounds

The term ancient wounds are often used to describe the pain that people often live with day to day. This pain has been with them for years on end without relief. The medical community often overlooks the clues to the patient complaints. Often they are simply unexplained and ignored. The cause can sometime be something major being reported by the body, but most often the source is the soft tissue issues. The pain is a report from the soft tissue that there is a problem. The problem may not be serious enough to keep the person in bed but serious enough to reduce their quality of life significantly.

The pain can come from anywhere and often the area the pain is felt is different from the source of the pain. This fact alone makes it very difficult to determine the source of the problem. This type of pain is called referral pain since it is referred from one point in another location in the body. Another type of pain is static pain. This pain always emanates from the same location and can be displayed as tightness, tension or a piercing pain. Another pain is motion pain. This pain is often only present when the person moves a certain muscle group. And stinging pain is a nerve pain that can produce a constant misery.

Together these types of pains and others tend to be ever present and remain unresolved, hence the term ancient pain. These pains escape traditional medical diagnostic procedures designed to determine what is wrong with the patient. For example unless there is major structural damage to the tissue x-ray or even MRI will offer little evidence to the cause of the pain. Physical examination offers no clues as well. Muscle testing and other tests fail to pinpoint any source for the pain. This pain is well on its way to becoming an ancient wound.

The solution too many of these invisible pains lies in understanding their root causes. The causes of these pains are often caused by tissue injury, tissue toxicity or tissue stress. The result of these types of insults to the tissue is pain. Remember then you ran into the coffee table last year and it hurt like hell. You did not see the damage because the skin was not broken but deep within the tissue there was a significant damage, The rapid formation of sub-dermal scaring may have trapped a small nerve in the how hardened scar tissue. That tissue will transmit the pain from the trapped nerve until it is released.

The affected area will be subjected to restricted vascular profusion (circulation) and dehydration reduces the natural energy flow within the tissue and finally waste will begin to accumulate. Is it any wonder the body is reporting a painful condition. Where is this break down in normal cellular function leading? You guessed it, the creation of an ancient wound. There are many types of tissue blockages each with their own cause, scar tissue, adhesions from surgery, chronic tissue constriction from stress and many others. The results are a reduction in normal cellular function within the soft tissue structures.

Decompression massage therapy or decompression myofascial therapy as has been in continuous use for more than 10,000 years. Ancients used animal horns, smoothed and heated over a fire to create a powerful negative pressure to reach inside the otherwise inaccessible body. Egyptians and Asians used clay, wood and glass tools. Today, far more powerful methods of creating painless invisible negative pressure therapies are available. In the last decade modern medicine has discovered the power of this ancient physical treatment using negative pressure for normalizing and stimulating the healing of soft tissue. This technique is used to heal open wounds following surgery.

But don't wait for your doctor to take the time to learn the techniques of healing ancient wounds. Tissue decompression therapies require time consuming body work to reach deep into the tissue and release the trapped nerves, restore hydration, circulation and waste removal and to extend the tissue fibers to restore their range of motion and their health. Tissue decompression therapy is a technique of using a negative pressure to remove physical blockages and restore normal function of these injured tissues thereby restoring their natural health and function.