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.

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.

The research is ongoing, with more information available on the web site.

This report should be useful in helping you to:

** Understand the myths of back pain treatment so that it's clear to you why your treatment hasn't worked.

** 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.

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.

THE THEORY OF PAIN - HOW WE GOT IT 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.

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 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.

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!

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.

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.

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 TREATMENT METHOD WHICH IS PROVEN TO WORK FOR 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.

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.

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.

Further reports and case studies are freely available on the web site.