What is the cause of misalignment or restriction in body movement?

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The ways we habitually sleep, walk, or sit (for example, walking with our heads forward or standing with our knees locked) can cause misalignment. Trauma, physical strain from overexertion, or holding one position too long, or muscle tension from mental and emotional stress, can cause pain or restrict motion.

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Pain

Pain is your body telling you that you have hurt it. This is a good thing, important when you are injured. It can also help diagnose problems with your body. Sometimes pain continues long after it's necessary. Amputees report phantom pain in the legs or arms they no longer have. There are different kinds of pain, and describing the type is useful in diagnosis: recurring, constant, steady, knife-like, radiating, sharp, dull. Medicines that dull pain are analgesics. Those that kill all feeling are anesthetics.

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