The Management Or Relief Of Back Pain – True And False
DO YOU STILL HAVE BACK PAIN, EVEN THOUGH YOU’VE DONE EVERYTHING YOUR DOCTOR ASKED? HERE’S WHY IT DIDN’T WORK.
The Proof
Of all chronic pain cases, back pain is overwhelmingly the most common. However most people will fail to stop the pain, and even fail to reduce it.
In Australia the treatment cost per annum of chronic, unrelieved physical pain is over $12 billion. In the USA it is more than double that. Lost productivity and other costs skyrocket these figures into the hundreds of billions. Not only is this a huge burden on the economy and the health system, but it represents an enormity of human suffering that is both appalling and terrifying.
Most of us have experienced terrible pain. The thought of living with that agony every second of every day is luckily, for most of us, unimaginable, especially when that pain is in the back or neck, and every movement is agonising.
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.
Immediate results in our first clinical trial group showed 100 per cent elimination of pain for 4 out of the 8 in the group, more than 50 per cent pain decrease for another 2 of them, and zero change for the remaining 2. At 2 week follow-up the results held. At 2-year follow-up we were able to contact only 4 of the original 8. 2 of those had no chronic pain at all in the intervening time. 1 had minor “niggling” chronic pain, and the other had increased pain, however this could be explained by her chiropractor’s high-velocity manipulations of her cervical spine, which she persisted in having even though it clearly and severely worsened her pain after every visit.
Our research is ongoing, and you can read more about the available research on the Real Help for Chronic Pain web site.
Reading this report will help you to:
** Really understand why your back pain treatments have been so disappointing, and how the myths of chronic pain have led to so many incorrect treatments even by the medical profession.
** Finally discover a treatment method for back pain that is based on sound evidence, and which has a high probability of helping you.
The techniques outlined in this report do not in any way replace the need for thorough investigation and treatment of your back pain, or indeed any chronic pain. Rather, they are presented as a crucial part of your pain treatment, and also as a stepped alternative to more invasive treatment measures such as surgery, where such surgery is of significant risk.
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 is now clear that acute pain and chronic pain are very different in nature, and in fact these 2 pain types even utilise different nerve paths, as you will soon see.
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.
Now I’d like to describe exactly how these things produce chronic pain, and how you can stop worrying about “control” and just start eliminating it instead.
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.
The other area in which we “got it wrong” was that we blamed the patient for his pain, accusing him of “bringing on the pain” or “creating the pain” by his thoughts and attitudes. Several current approaches still do this.
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.
There is a far more intelligent, humane, and effective approach, and that is to address the emotional factors which underly the thoughts, attitudes and beliefs that are linked to pain production, and to eliminate those using modern de-conditioning techniques. Only King Canute would be silly enough to try to do that by willpower!
There is a third area where technology has shown up our misunderstanding of chronic pain, and this is brain imaging. The brain maps of chronic pain look just like the brain maps of emotional distress – very different to brain maps of acute pain.
It seems amazing to us that until now no-one has linked this with learning theory and memory studies. If they had, they would discover that the same processes which modulate conditioned responses and memory, also appear to modulate chronic pain.
Sadly, the outcome of our past and current misunderstanding of the nature of chronic pain has lead to a proliferation of programs which have the intention of “helping the patient to live with his pain”, rather than the reduction or even elimination of that pain altogether.
And now it should be clear to you why analgesics, surgery, CBT, acupuncture, osteopathy, hypnotherapy, and chiropractic have all failed to deliver relief that is of any permanence or significant to people with unrelenting back pain.
A SENSIBLE, PROVEN APPROACH TO BACK PAIN
Now that we no longer misunderstand the nature of chronic back pain we can stop blaming the patient, and stop treating back pain as if it were an entirely physical problem. We can instead eliminate the actual cause of your unrelenting back pain, which is the conditioned activity of your central nervous system.
Very differently to any other chronic pain program, this program is intended to eliminate your back pain. That is the aim. And it successfully eliminates pain by disrupting the mechanisms which activate your pain signalling, permanently.
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.
Over the last 6 years when clinical research has been carried out in Australia, we’ve come to expect that approximately 95 per cent of patients with chronic back pain will achieve total elimination of their back pain, or at least reduce it by more than half.
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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