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.

We waste over $12 billion on failed chronic pain programs here in Australia every year, and in the USA it is more than double that. If you add on the lost wages of the sufferer, and the cost in lost productivity to businesses, the costs run into many hundreds of billions of dollars, every year. It's easy to imagine what this does to the health system, but of even more importance is the suffering of chronic pain patients and their families.

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.

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 I hope that the new methods proven to be effective by Australian research will soon replace those failed, outdated methods and that people will finally gain real relief.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.

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.

If you'd like to read more about the research, more comprehensive information is freely available on the web site.

Reading 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.

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.

THE THEORY OF PAIN - HOW WE GOT IT 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.