The Management Or Relief Of Back Pain - True And False

WHY BACK PAIN TREATMENTS ARE OFTEN SO INEFFECTIVE, AND HOW TO GET REAL RELIEF

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.

Here in Australia failed chronic pain programs waste over $12 billion every year. It's even worse in the USA, at more than $24 billion per annum. When you add on the costs of lost wages, and lost productivity, the total costs skyrocket into outer space! So this is an enormous burden on society, but of course these figures betray an enormity of human suffering that is truly frightening.

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:

** Appreciate how the myths of chronic pain have led to serious mistakes in treatment programs, even by the most highly-trained health professionals.

** Finally discover a treatment method for back pain that is based on sound evidence, and which has a high probability of helping you.

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 we stress that you should never self-diagnose, and any pain should be properly investigated by a licensed medical doctor. We also stress the importance of keeping your doctor informed of your progress.

WHY THE THEORY OF PAIN IS WRONG

In olden times our beliefs about the nature of pain were quite strange and mystical, bearing little relationship to current day knowledge of anatomy! In recent times there's been excellent progress in the understanding and treatment of acute pain, but with few exceptions, research in chronic pain has failed to produce any real benefit. This is why most health professionals still don't have an acceptable way to help back pain patients.

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.

It is only very recently that this was clearly understood and better interventions have begun to be developed. (For a better understanding of the benefits and shortcomings of the variety of current chronic pain treatments, please download the more comprehensive report on the 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.

We now know that those thoughts and attitudes certainly do help produce pain, but that they in turn are produced by unconscious emotional responses, over which the patient does not have direct control! So insisting that the patient use willpower and basically try to ignore their pain, could be seen as blatantly cruel.

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.

We've been fortunate that technology has improved to the point where we've been able to clear up the misunderstanding between acute and chronic pain. Brain imaging shows conclusively that chronic pain and acute pain are entirely different, with maps of chronic pain looking just like maps for sadness, or anger, for example.

To us it's rather incredible that no-one else seems to have identified the relationship to learning theory and memory studies. If only they had, we would get other researchers joining us instead of wasting time on red herrings! If only they would realise that the same brain processes that give rise to conditioned responses and memory also give rise to 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.

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.

A SENSIBLE, PROVEN APPROACH TO BACK PAIN

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.

This proven program is known as BMSA, or Brief, Multi-Sensory Activation therapy, and it has achieved outstanding results, even where back pain sufferers have had serious pain for many years, and even where the patient has tried and failed many other pain programs. Most people can learn to self treat very quickly and easily, and most people achieve some result from the very first treatment.

According to Australian clinical research, carried out over the last 6 years, approximately 95 per cent of patients with chronic back pain will successfully eliminate or dramatically reduce their pain.

More information on this approach to treating chronic back pain is available from the web site, including some interesting case studies.

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