Why do pain and symptoms keep happening again after I stop treatment?

I hear this all of the time. One thing to know is that a symptom may have been lurking for years and now after stressing your body's systems for months, years or even decades, it has now presented itself. Pain and symptoms can go away easily if you start making necessary changes in your life but just because you have a really good week doesn't mean that the symptoms are gone for good. 

How pain happens:

Pain happens when messages are sent up the spinal cord from the spine, arms, legs, feet or other areas of the body. Those signals are then sent to the thalamus and cortex of the brain which process the information and decide to send pain signals to injured or damaged areas.  This is how the brain protects us when it thinks we are in danger. 

In order to maintain the progress you made, lifestyle changes are necessary for long term results. Think of dieting. If you diet for one month and lose a bit of weight but go back to your old eating habits, you will gain the weight back quickly.  Body work is always necessary to keep stress from festering and allow the body to remain stable.  If something is working, it is probably a good idea to stick with it.  

That is how the body works. Even though you have eaten really well and even exercised a bit, once the body is stressed again, it will present a symptom. Here is a great video that explains how symptoms happen and what can be done: