Acute? Chronic? or Permanent? What’s The Difference?
April 2, 2010
It might be an oversimplification, but most health challenges can be classified into either acute, chronic or permanent. What you need to know is that all of these are progressive. When the body begins moving in an unhealthy direction for a long enough period of time, symptoms begin to appear. Now just because the symptoms just appeared it does not mean that the problem is new, it just means that the signs just appeared!
An acute health problem is usually associated with an acute injury resulting from something obvious like a physical injury, chemical assault or heavy emotional trauma.
A chronic problem includes symptoms that come and go, x-rays that demonstrate localized areas of decay in the spine, muscle problems that aren’t rubbed away, or simply health concerns that that most people use over the counter medications to deal with.
Problems become permanent when we are only managing symptoms and never look to the root cause of the health challenge. People with permanent problems will often use medication for the rest of their lives for comfort. Unfortunately, this only brings comfort, not health. This practice also usually causes health problems that are easy to correct, to progress, from acute to chronic to permanent.
This is why we are adamant about checking your spine and nervous system regularly, ….not just when symptoms develop. It is also why we check kids in our practice- to make sure your children grow up healthy, rather than wait for them to break down as adults.
Do you have a health challenge? Is it acute? Chronic? Permanent?
Call us to make sure it doesn’t progress!
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Dr. Jen, thanks so much for spelling this out so clearly. People really need to understand the importance of this message.
.-= Dorothy Ponton, DC´s last blog ..Got Reimbursements? =-.
They are important distinctions, and just as important is understanding that you will progress from one stage to the next if you do nothing!