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The Ninth Principle 

9. Dr. Lamb’s Principle of Body Flux

The idea that the body is in a state of flux is very important for the understanding and diagnosis of chronic pain. Every cell in your body is alive and is therefore constantly changing or fluctuating. 

Physicists have long recognized that the electrons around the atoms in our universe and bodies are never really in any particular location in the electron cloud, but at the same time they are everywhere in the electron cloud. How could this be? Who knows really, but it too demonstrates that our bodies are in a state of flux even at the atomic level. 

Our bodies too are constantly changing from an electrical, chemical and physical standpoint. Muscles are constantly elongating in areas and shortening in others. Bone is constantly being broken down and remade. Disk spaces are being compressed and may decompress with movement or change of position such as lying down. Electrical charges are constantly accumulating and depolarizing, and chemical reactions are occurring all over bodies all the time. 

I want you to remember that one of the inherent problems with X-rays and Cat scans and even nerve testing is that a person’s health fluctuates, even when ill.   

Thus a test only represents a moment in time indicating what was present when we performed the test. The fact that pain disorders fluctuate is actually a benefit because we can take advantage of good and bad times in therapy.