WHY YOU STILL HAVE BACK PAIN, DESPITE TREATMENT, AND HOW TO GET THE RESULT YOU WANT
The Facts
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.
Almost everyone has experienced extreme pain at one time or another. But most of us never have to endure the relentless, everyday agony that back pain patients suffer, with every movement, sometimes even breathing, bringing yet more pain.
Back pain patients have every right to be angry that their treatment has failed because the failure rates are not hidden - they're available for any researcher to find. I hope that the new methods proven to be effective by Australian research will soon replace those failed, outdated methods and that people will finally gain real relief. We can expect that a majority of patients will achieve full elimination of their chronic pain, even if they've suffered for many years, and despite the number of pain treatments they've attempted previously.
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.
If you'd like to read more about the research, more comprehensive information is freely 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.
** Learn about a scientifically proven method for treating chronic back pain that has been used successfully in Australia for the past decade.
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.
On no account should you self-diagnose any condition, and all unexplained pain should be investigated. If you choose to do the chronic pain program, whether solely through the application of what you learn in this report, or through the on-line program on www.realhelpforchronicpain.com, you should do so only under the supervision of your qualified medical specialist.
HOW WE GOT IT SO WRONG WHEN IT CAME TO CHRONIC PAIN
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.
You see, we now know that acute pain and chronic pain are worlds apart in nature, and even use 2 different nerve paths, as I'll shortly explain.
It's really only the last 10-12 years that this vast difference between chronic and acute pain has begun to be understood, and of course it takes time for better treatment methods to filter through. A detailed discussion of current treatments and their reasons for failure is available as a free download from 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.
When therapists haven't understood these things, they've often misdirected treatment, or even ordered patients to do things that increased the pain instead of easing it, creating a state of hightened distress.
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!
Thoughts and attitudes certainly do help produce pain, but it's an enormous mistake to assume that there is any significant conscious control over these. These things are mediated unconsciously, and we regard blaming the patient's thinking or speech as both ignorant and cruel.
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!
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.
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.
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.
So for people with unrelenting back pain, it should be no wonder why so many different treatments, from strong analgesics, to CBT, to hydrotherapy and even surgery, have failed to deliver.
HOW BACK PAIN SHOULD BE TREATED
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.
Unlike almost every other program, this program has the full intention of dramatically reducing or eliminating your chronic pain, by working with the actual mechanisms which produce the pain signals in the first place, literally "switching off" your chronic pain, 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.
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.
Further reports and case studies are freely available on the web site.
The Facts
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.
Almost everyone has experienced extreme pain at one time or another. But most of us never have to endure the relentless, everyday agony that back pain patients suffer, with every movement, sometimes even breathing, bringing yet more pain.
Back pain patients have every right to be angry that their treatment has failed because the failure rates are not hidden - they're available for any researcher to find. I hope that the new methods proven to be effective by Australian research will soon replace those failed, outdated methods and that people will finally gain real relief. We can expect that a majority of patients will achieve full elimination of their chronic pain, even if they've suffered for many years, and despite the number of pain treatments they've attempted previously.
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.
If you'd like to read more about the research, more comprehensive information is freely 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.
** Learn about a scientifically proven method for treating chronic back pain that has been used successfully in Australia for the past decade.
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.
On no account should you self-diagnose any condition, and all unexplained pain should be investigated. If you choose to do the chronic pain program, whether solely through the application of what you learn in this report, or through the on-line program on www.realhelpforchronicpain.com, you should do so only under the supervision of your qualified medical specialist.
HOW WE GOT IT SO WRONG WHEN IT CAME TO CHRONIC PAIN
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.
You see, we now know that acute pain and chronic pain are worlds apart in nature, and even use 2 different nerve paths, as I'll shortly explain.
It's really only the last 10-12 years that this vast difference between chronic and acute pain has begun to be understood, and of course it takes time for better treatment methods to filter through. A detailed discussion of current treatments and their reasons for failure is available as a free download from 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.
When therapists haven't understood these things, they've often misdirected treatment, or even ordered patients to do things that increased the pain instead of easing it, creating a state of hightened distress.
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!
Thoughts and attitudes certainly do help produce pain, but it's an enormous mistake to assume that there is any significant conscious control over these. These things are mediated unconsciously, and we regard blaming the patient's thinking or speech as both ignorant and cruel.
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!
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.
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.
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.
So for people with unrelenting back pain, it should be no wonder why so many different treatments, from strong analgesics, to CBT, to hydrotherapy and even surgery, have failed to deliver.
HOW BACK PAIN SHOULD BE TREATED
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.
Unlike almost every other program, this program has the full intention of dramatically reducing or eliminating your chronic pain, by working with the actual mechanisms which produce the pain signals in the first place, literally "switching off" your chronic pain, 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.
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.
Further reports and case studies are freely available on the web site.
About the Author:
Christine Sutherland is a clinical researcher and an expert in unrelenting back pain. More detailed information on why current programs usually fail, and what you can do about your back pain is freely available. Grab a totally unique version of this article from the Uber Article Directory
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