Welcome to Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show. Today we're going to talk about pain symptoms and what it means to the body. And it's not what most people think.   Welcome to the Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show, a podcast advocating wellness, life and healing from within. With 38 years in practice, 50,000 patients and over 1 million chiropractic adjustments, here's your host, Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr.   My name is Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr. I'm a doctor of chiropractic. Stay tuned. And we're going to do this show to more or less educate the public on health and wellness and Chiropractic, and we're going to focus on pain and what that means to the body.   So what is pain? Pain is the body way to tell you that something is going on, something is wrong, that there is an injury or there is a problem. Pain is an alarm, it's a warning sign. Most people don't listen to the warning signs, they don't listen to the alarm. It's like having a warning light on the dashboard or your car and not paying attention to it. The consequences are going to be severe. We need to listen, we need to listen to our body. Pain is a symptom. A symptom is a warning sign of something greater. We need to be grateful for the warning signs because it tells us that something is going on. Warning signs for heart attack is chest pain, and pain in the left arm. It needs to be addressed, and if you don't take care of it, you can lose your life. Most people approach the symptoms by taking medication, by suppressing the symptoms or the pain or the warning signs. So again, it's like the oil light in your car is the warning sign telling us there's a problem. And if you ignore it, or if you put a piece of paper over it, and you're thinking the problem is not there and the problem is gone. But it's not there, it's not the way works. This is like putting blinders on. Imagine if somebody had chest pain from heart attack, and you took a medication just to cover up the pain and just to cover up the problem. That is just not the right thing to do. When a person has a back problem, most people take pain pills, they take a cortisone shot, which is only a temporary fix. The usual process is at first that takes medication over the counter. And if that doesn't work, usually we will go to our primary doctor and the primary doctor will give us something stronger, something that you know will cover the pain better. And if that doesn't work, usually they'll refer you to a pain clinic. So that's the process today. And when you go to a pain clinic, they're going to give you some really strong medication like opioids. And that is very addictive. Then you become addicted to prescribed medication. So it happens very quickly. Today, we have an opioid epidemic. And people are getting addicted right and left, even an older person like grandma or grandpa can be addicted overnight without realizing it. And I saw in my own eyes when my daughter, she had knee surgery, she had an ACL tear and they did surgery on her, and they said to her for the next two or three days, take this medication, and it was an opioid. And after about 2 or 3 days, we stopped giving her the medication. And sure enough, she started having a reaction; sweating and really reacting like her body craved the medication. So it's amazing how fast it can happen. 50% of the people that are in rehab home, that are addicted to drugs are addicted to prescribed medications. And it's very common, especially when you have back problems, and we see it in our office all the time. People that come in that are taking opioids for back pain. So they go to the doctor and the pain doesn't go away, they don't address the problem properly. And sure enough, they just rely on the medication. So what are opioids? Opioids are like medication like Oxycontin; oxycodone or hydrocodone, or Vicodin. One of the most common opioid is morphine, and a lot of people a