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Cure Back Pain
7
Easy Steps to Finally Get Rid of Back Pain
Lower back pain is the single most common chronic pain, experienced by
60-80% of the population at some time in their lives. Even
though
many people can achieve healing through good physiotherapy or other
treatment programs, roughly 20% of lower back pain sufferers never get
relief.
These are the people who will almost certainly be helped by this
article.
Is Your
Back Pain Actually Chronic Pain?
When back pain continues over a long period, despite treatment, we can
usually attribute that to a peculiar type of pain called chronic
pain. Chronic back pain isn’t actually related to
any
injury or deterioration of the spine, muscles or nerves. We
know
this because studies show that there is no relationship between damage
and pain.
If you were presented with a number of spine x-rays for example, and
you were asked to guess which people had the most pain, you’d
be
wrong in most cases because people with no damage can have extreme
pain, and people with a lot of damage might be completely unaware that
there is anything wrong.
Chronic pain is not actually generated by the body, it is generated in
the brain in response to normal signalling, and the proof of this lies
in fMRI, or functional magnetic resonance imaging, which shows maps of
the working brain. Brain maps of chronic pain look just like
brain maps of intense emotion. This is very, very different
to
the brain maps of acute pain!
So this is why, if you’ve had your back pain for a long time,
despite trying many treatments, you are most likely to have chronic
pain, and this article is most likely to help you.
7 Steps
to Eliminate Chronic Pain
Step
1: Eliminating Stress.
If you have chronic pain, your nervous system is behaving a lot like a
faulty car alarm that is going off for no good reason. The
more
stressed you are, the more your pain signalling will behave in this
way. If your nerves are jangling, your pain will be
worse.
So you need to make a decision to deal with the stress in your life,
today.
Step 2:
Emotional Reactions.
Do you have strong emotional reactions to things? This
doesn’t help chronic pain because it heightens the reactivity
of
your nervous system. You might be surprised to learn that
there
are actually ways to switch off unwanted emotional reactions so that
you feel calm and can think more clearly, even in a crisis.
Check
out www.bmsa-int.com, which is a site for medical practitioners who are
using this method very successfully with their clients.
Step
3: Being Sociable.
I know it can be difficult to mix with people when you’re in
pain, but social withdrawal or isolation is not only incredibly
damaging to your general health and wellbeing, but it enhances your
pain reactions as well. It’s necessary to make an
effort to
mix with people in a way that has nothing to do with your pain, so that
you can at least for a short time put your focus somewhere else, and
get all the benefits that “social engagement”
offers.
Step
4: Being Active.
People who don’t get enough physical activity have death
rates
higher than the combined rates of smoking, drinking, and unsafe
sex! That’s how important physical activity
is.
Physical activity increases your metabolic rate and gives you energy,
boosts your immune system and supports good health, and keeps your
muscles strong so that they support your bones and joints
properly. There’s always a way to increase
activity, no
matter how disabling your pain is, and no matter your movement
constraints.
Step 5:
Have an Interest or Hobby.
When we’ve got nothing to think about except our pain, our
pain
gets worse. It’s as if the nervous system picks up
on all
the attention it’s getting and delivers more! The
more you
can get your focus absorbed in something else, the more you can help to
trick your nervous system into shutting down the pain signalling.
Step 6:
Check Co-Dependency.
You might be surprised to learn that pain depends on environmental
factors, and that if your brain thinks that the pain is useful in your
circumstances, it may well try to keep it going! Is your pain
serving any useful purpose (no matter how twisted) in your family
life? Maybe not, but it’s definitely worth checking
out!
Step
7: Use BMSA (Brief, Multi-Sensory Activation).
BMSA is designed to re-train your nervous system so that it stops
producing chronic pain signals. Most people get relief
immediately, and over 50% of people can eliminate their pain
totally. Another 30-40% can reduce their pain dramatically,
all
through using BMSA.
An
Experiment with BMSA
So you can see how BMSA works, we’ve designed a little
experiment
that works for most people. It’s a little
crazy-looking at
first glance, but don’t let that fool you. BMSA has
been
tested in clinical trials and has a very sound scientific theory behind
it!
Take a moment to think about your pain, and make up a sentence that
exactly describes the pain in your own words. This might be
something like:
I have this burning pain in the middle of my lower back but a bit to
the left
I have this stabbing pain just above my tailbone
I have this deep ache near my left hip
Etc, etc, etc.
Notice that you’re describing the type of pain, and where
it’s located. Now rate that pain out of 10, with 10
out of
10 being the most awful pain you could possibly imagine, and 0 out of
10 being no pain whatsoever.
Now you’re going to say that statement over and over again,
maybe
12 times, each time saying something silly on the end of it.
And
at the same time you’re going to keep up a quick tapping
process all over your head and body, using your fingertips to
tap
on your head, shoulders, face, chest, legs, anywhere you can
reach. Mix it up, using tapping on the spot, tapping out
shapes
or letters of the alphabet.
If my sentence were “I have this deep ache near my left
hip”, I would start this tapping, all the while saying:
“I have this deep ache near my left hip, but polka dots taste
crunchy.”
Say this 12 times, tapping away.
When you’re done, start tapping on the top of your
chest,
just focussing on the pain, take as deep a breath as you can through
your nose, and then blow out as forcefully as you can through your
mouth.
Now rate that exact pain in that exact place. You may notice
other pain, or it might seem that the pain has moved, but what
you’re most intent on finding out is what has happened in
that
exact location. Is that pain still the same number out of 10,
or
has something happened there?
This is just a little taste of what BMSA can do, but of course
it’s not the whole picture. The book “The
Pain Train
– Time to Get Off” spells out much more detail and
steps
you through a personalised program designed to eliminate your pain
permanently.
Clinicians will find more technical information, including the
neurophysiological basis for the treatment approach on www.bmsa-int.com.
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