Dear Readers,

As we approach age 40, one of the subtle, inevitable changes we experience is shrinking muscles and weaker joints. Since males on average have a higher percentage of muscle mass, the changes are more noticeable: less strength in the gym; it’s harder walking up stairs and harder to run. Shrinking leg muscles and loss of speed and agility are what cause great athletes like Michael Jordan and Joe Montana to call it quits.

What should this mean to you?

It means that if you want those future plans you have in mind to become a reality, you need to take care of your body today because it is changing, which demands certain adjustments in your daily routine to compensate. I know people whose life changed dramatically after blowing out a disc in their back. While injuries like this eventually heal, they often result in a percent loss of function and chronic pain. Those who got surgery didn’t fare much better most of the time, as surgery disrupts nature’s design.

With that, allow me to be one of your resources to help you improve and maintain your musculoskeletal health. Even if you currently don’t have pain or limited mobility, I hope you stick around because: (1) prevention is the best cure for disease; (2) your situation can change any day; and (3) you might discover something from one of my videos or articles that you can share with a friend who is in pain, and possibly save him/her from unnecessary suffering.

Products. I’d like to be transparent about this, so let me explain. But first — did you notice the Pain and Injury Doctor logo?   A quick glance and it looks like the Red Cross symbol. Look closer, and the logo is actually four arrow pointing inwards. Each one represents a component of self-care for musculoskeletal health:

1 – diet and nutrition
2 – rehabilitative exercise
3 – manual therapy
4 – home modalities

(The four arrows form a small person with arms and legs extended (X) to symbolize maximum flexibility).

PainandInjuryDoctor.com falls under telemedicine; a broad term that encompasses aspects of health care delivered over the internet.  You’ve probably heard of sites like WebMD, ShareCare and Mayo Clinic.  These are more than websites; they are a form of telemedicine.   They enable individuals like you to research symptoms, drug names, diseases and medical terms used by your doctor and get fast answers.

With PID, you get guidance on how to self-manage common, non-emergency forms of musculoskeletal conditions such as low back pain, neck pain, tendonitis and shoulder stiffness.  Yes, there are tons of videos on YouTube on this; some good and some not-so-good.   My intent is to explain the cause of common musculoskeletal conditions in simple terms, and special strategies I developed to get relief, even permanent relief, that involve the four components mentioned above.

The Big Idea of PID is that yes, you can cure common presentations of musculoskeletal pain faster than waiting it out by doing home rehabilitation.  I’ll share with you videos of the techniques I prescribed to patients when I was in practice, and still personally use to get relief when needed.  Some of these techniques involve using equipment.  Yes, I do sell them on my site PulsedEMF.com.  It’s obviously up to you to purchase them, and if you decide to do so, where to buy them.  My job is to show and explain what I believe will bring the best, fastest results in relieving pain but the action is up to you.  Rest assured, the products on my site are the select few out of nearly a hundred that I have tested over my 20 years in practice that I’ve seen actually work on pain sufferers.  In fact, I have many of these products lying around my home that I use regularly to treat friends and family.  They all have scientific and/or clinical evidence to back them up.  Think of them as investments in your health and quality of life.

I truly believe this is just the tip of the telemedicine iceberg, and greater things are yet to come as technology advances.  I believe that virtual assistants like Alexa, in the near future, will be able to project a hologram demonstration of exercises to do for a bulging disc; or be able to accurately diagnose a condition by scanning your body and reading your vital signs, right in your living room.

In the meantime, I welcome you to keep visiting The Pain and Injury Doctor online.  I am in the process of producing self-rehab video guides for the 15 most common presentations of musculoskeltal pain I’ve come across.  The ones for Low Back Pain and Fibromyalgia and Insomnia are completed.  Next up is Neck Pain.  Please share on social media, as there is a good chance someone you know can benefit from these free rehab videos.  They are taking longer than anticipated to produce, partly because of the Covid pandemic, and partly because of my high quality standards.  But when they are complete, I hope for these videos to help millions of pain sufferers across the world; especially those who do not have access to a doctor.

Also in the meantime, I plan to release more articles and YouTube videos on managing pain.  Some of the topics coming up include what to do about foot weakness and pain; a great, inexpensive home recipe for joint health; and a factor that might be affecting your health that you probably don’t know about.

Till then, take care, and stay vigilant until the pandemic is declared over.

Dr. Perez

P.S. You can ask me a question any time on my FaceBook page, or you can use the form at the bottom of the PID home page.