Back Pain Relief - A New Approach Makes Perfect Sense
WHY YOU STILL HAVE BACK PAIN, DESPITE TREATMENT, AND HOW TO GET THE RESULT YOU WANT
The Proof
Back pain, whether lower back pain or upper back pain, is the most common of all chronic pain complaints, and yet most people discover that their pain program is next to useless.
We waste over $12 billion on failed chronic pain programs here in Australia every year, and in the USA it is more than double that. If you add on the lost wages of the sufferer, and the cost in lost productivity to businesses, the costs run into many hundreds of billions of dollars, every year. It's easy to imagine what this does to the health system, but of even more importance is the suffering of chronic pain patients and their families.
The experience of pain is common to almost everyone, but the thought of living in agony from day to day isn't something most of us ever have to face. For those with back pain, or neck pain, every movement, sometimes even breathing, can bring that agony.
Current methods have failed to help back pain patients in the majority of cases and I hope that the methods described here will replace those ineffective methods. Australian research demonstrates that it's now possible to bring immediate relief to the majority of people with back pain or neck main, with most of those achieving total elimination, regardless of how long they've suffered.
The data from the Australian research showed 100 per cent cessation of pain for half the group immediately (at the first treatment) and more than 50 per cent reduction in pain for another 25%. 6-month follow-up showed that results had held or increased except for one patient, who had continued to have high-velocity cervical spine manipulations from her chiropractor, even though her pain worsened with every visit.
The research is ongoing, with more information available on the web site.
We hope that this report will help you to:
** Understand the myths of back pain treatment so that it's clear to you why your treatment hasn't worked.
** Get up to date on a treatment method for chronic pain of all kinds so that you can finally get relief.
If you do decide you'd like to try the chronic pain program outlined here, it's crucial that you first have a diagnosis of chronic pain from your doctor, so that we can ensure there isn't any treatable underlying medical condition. With accurate diagnosis, we can then be more assured of getting the result you want.
So please never try to self diagnose any condition, especially pain, and never presume that if you've had the pain for many years, that the cause remains the same. Many people give up on their pain and stop seeing their doctor. We ask you to retain the supervision of your qualified medical specialist, and keep them informed of your progress through the program, should you decide to try it.
WHY THE THEORY OF PAIN IS WRONG
Scientists and medical professionals used to have some pretty strange ideas about pain, ideas that are embarrassing when we look at them in the light of up-to-date scientific knowledge! But even though we've made excellent advanced in the treatment of acute pain, in contrast the treatment of chronic pain is still in the dark ages in most cases, and it's not surprising that most back pain patients are suffering far longer than necessary, if at all!
It can be hard to understand this disparity in the research sector when we already have such good proof that chronic pain and acute pain are so different in their nature that they actually use 2 completely different nerve paths.
But it's only really in the last decade that the difference between chronic and acute pain has become so clear, and better treatments have been developed. If you'd like to have much more detail about the shortcomings of current treatments, you can download a more comprehensive report from the official web site.
The major factor in creating worthless chronic pain programs has been that program developers didn't understand that chronic pain is directly linked to the patient's internal state, which is affected by a whole range of completely non-physical issues.
As you will read in the next section, the experience of chronic pain is absolutely dependent upon these things, not because chronic pain is "all in the head", not at all! Rather these factors are absolutely complicit in the body's pain response.
Almost all therapists have given wrong treatment based on their misunderstanding of the cause of chronic pain, even to the point of creating higher pain levels instead of reducing them.
Another areas where therapists have been incorrect is in the blaming of the patient for "bringing on the pain", supposedly because the patient wasn't "disciplined" enough in their thinking. Several current approaches still try to get the patient to change their internal voice using nothing but willpower!
Yes, thoughts and attitudes (and beliefs) do help create pain. However thoughts, attitudes and beliefs are not under the patient's control, and any therapist who tries to force the patient to change these using sheer willpower or self discipline is inflicting an ignorant and cruel treatment.
A far more humane and effective approach (which is what you will learn about here) is to identify and deal with those emotional factors and permanently resolve them, not to try to make changes through willpower.
The third area where we didn't so much "get it wrong" as much as just didn't know, because the scientific tools to demonstrate this weren't yet developed, was how the brain actually processes chronic pain. Brain imaging techniques have clearly demonstrated that the brain activity that typifies chronic pain signalling is almost identical to that created by emotional pain such as fear, anger or other emotional distress.
Does it seem incredible to you that other researchers haven't seen or understood what this means in terms of what we already know about learning theory and memory? If only they would realise that chronic pain is created by the same brain processes that create conditioned responses, or store and retrieve a memory.
It's tragic that the outcome of all these misunderstandings and lack of knowledge is that pain programs have been so ineffective that they best they could do was help the patient to "cope" with their pain, but not reduce it or eliminate it.
It's no wonder that treatment with strong pain killers, surgery to cut nerve branches, cognitive behaviour therapy, hydrotherapy, chiropractic therapy, acupuncture and osteopathy have all proven to be woefully inadequate to help people in any permanent way with back pain.
HOW BACK PAIN SHOULD BE TREATED
Now that we understand the true nature of chronic back pain, we can stop blaming the patient for his thinking, we can stop treating the patient as if he were merely a body part, and we can address the real "culprit" behind unrelenting back pain. This is the conditioned behaviour of your central nervous system.
In complete contrast to every other program, this chronic pain program has as its aim the complete elimination of your back pain. And it does that by working with the mechanisms which produce your pain signals, switching them off permanently so that they never recur.
The method of treatment is BMSA, or Brief, Multi-Sensory Activation and most people can learn to self-treat very quickly and easily, gaining immediate results even when they've tried many other pain programs and failed.
Australian clinical research over the past 6 years shows that we can expect around 95% of true chronic back pain patients to achieve either total elimination of their back pain, or dramatically reduce their back pain.
Case studies, along with more information on this new approach to treatment of back pain, are available on the web site.
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About the Author
C Sutherland is a researching clinician and an expert in chronic back pain. More detailed info on why current programs often fail, and what you can do about your back pain is freely available.
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