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
The overwhelming share of chronic pain is suffered by people with back pain, and yet treatment typically fails to eliminate or even reduce the level of suffering.

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.

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.

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.

In the Australian research with long-term chronic pain patients with a history of at least 2 failed pain treatments, half the participants achieved a 100 per cent elimination of pain on the first treatment. Of the remainder, a majority enjoyed over 50 per cent reduction of their pain levels, and the results were permanent with one exception, a patient who, curiously, continued her high-velocity cervical spine manipulations even though her pain increased dramatically with each visit to her chiropractor.

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:

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

** Get up to date on a treatment method for chronic pain of all kinds so that you can finally get relief.

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.

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.

WHY THE THEORY OF PAIN IS WRONG

In times past we used to have beliefs and ideas about pain that in the light of current knowledge seem ignorant or even bizarre. Even now, with the benefit of a more evidence-based approach to the development and provision of interventions for pain, and even though we have made enormous progress in the treatment of acute pain (in most cases), conventional treatments for chronic physical pain still seem woefully inadequate in terms of satisfactory outcomes for 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 main area in which we “got it wrong” when it came to the treatment of chronic pain was that we did not (and most interventions still don’t) understand the crucial role played by seemingly non-physical factors such as the patient’s social, family, emotional, psychological, financial and occupational issues.

Read on to see how chronic pain is produced by these non-physical factors, and what you can do about it even though willpower has nothing to do with it!

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 very important mistake that therapists have made is where they’ve blamed the patient for creating his own pain. They haven’t been able to help the patient using the methods they believe should work, and therefore it is now conveniently the patient’s fault, and the patient must be taught to think “correctly”. This is what CBT does, and is why CBT usually fails.

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.

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.

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.

But so far in the story of development of pain programs, misunderstanding and lack of informatioin has led to a mass of programs which have as their goal teaching the patient to “cope” with their pain, rather than actually relieving 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 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.

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.

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

About the Author:

C Sutherland is a researching clinician and a specialist in chronic back pain. More detailed info about why current treatments usually fail, and what you can do about your back pain is freely available.