Pain of any kind, at any age, is a sign that something isn’t right. Pain is the way your body signals that a limit has been reached or an injury has occurred.

Your body injures itself daily and its own innate healing ability can repair the damage quite quickly and often within a day or 2.

People who perform physical activities, to which they are not accustomed, can ache for a day or so afterwards. If pain does not resolve in the first day or if pain episodes re-occur, then it is possible that there is enough damage to the collagen fibres of the joint that it has been allowed to subluxate or mis-align. Once this has been corrected, the body will recover quicker with its own innate healing ability.

If there is an underlying subluxation (misalignment), pain episodes can worsen in intensity, duration and frequency over time. Delaying treatment at this point can mean that your condition becomes more difficult to resolve compared with if treatment was started earlier.