Back Pain Diagnostic Eclecticism

Back Pain Diagnostic Eclecticism is a curse to patients worldwide. Common back pain can be blamed on a huge variety of potential causes. Ask several healthcare providers for a diagnosis and you are sure to receive a variety of opinions and theories. Theories? Should doctors be theorizing when it comes to a patient�s health? Facts would be a much better solution. Unfortunately, medical science has very FEW facts when it comes to the everyday causes of common back pain syndromes.

What is Back Pain Diagnostic Eclecticism?

Diagnostic eclecticism simply means that doctors can not agree on the exact cause of the pain. Ask several different doctors, or even the same doctor on several occasions, and you are likely to get varied responses as to what exactly is causing most common back pain syndromes. This diagnostic variety is caused by the ineffectiveness of most medical back pain treatments. Unfortunately, most doctors neglect the one true cause of most back pain when they are fishing in their bag of diagnoses� psychosomatic pain.

Back Pain Diagnostic Eclecticism Facts

Doctors are great are diagnosing. There are certainly no shortage of diagnosed conditions that can cause back pain. Medicine concentrates on the physical causes, such as disk problems, bone problems and soft tissue problems. These conditions can cause back pain, but will usually respond well to treatment. Patients with these physical causes are EXTREMELY LUCKY, since they have been correctly diagnosed with a treatable form of back pain.

The majority of all patients do not get better. In fact, most get worse and worse and eventually acquiesce to some form of drastic treatment. Surgery is the most common of these FINAL SOLUTIONS. These are the legions of lost souls who suffer with pain everyday. There is no help from medical science because medicine has misdiagnosed their true back pain problem. Psychological causation is the true reason for most cases of unresolved back pain. The remainder actually have a physical problem causing their pain, but that problem has not been correctly identified. These MILLIONS of patients are stuck in limbo. They are not any better from treatment, but are stuck in an ongoing regimen of care with no hope for an actual cure. It is a sad state to be sure�

Back Pain Diagnostic Eclecticism Reality

Most doctors and patients alike believe that back pain is caused by one of 2 common scenarios, Injury or Degenerative Process.

* Back Injury can indeed cause pain. The majority of all back injuries affect the muscles and soft tissues of the back and spine. These injuries can be very painful, but will heal in a matter of weeks with NO TREATMENT at all. Serious spinal injuries can lead to a lifelong pain condition, but these events are very rare and account for less than 1% of all chronic back pain complaints. The most common injury that keeps a patient in treatment is a herniated disc. Disc injures can be painful when they occur, but are extremely unlikely to account for years worth of chronic and acute pain. Most disc injuries will stabilize within a few weeks, with little or no treatment.

* Degenerative Processes account for huge numbers of miserable patients. The actual spinal degeneration rarely causes any pain, yet doctors commonly blame suffering on these scapegoat conditions everyday. Degenerated Discs are universal in the population and are unfairly targeted as some abnormal and painful condition. Arthritis is a normal part of aging, yet is blamed for millions of cases of treatment resistant back pain.

Back Pain Diagnostic Eclecticism Problem

The simple fact is that doctors really do not understand the complex interaction of the human mind and body. Back pain is often blamed on some coincidental physical condition that is usually completely innocent and asymptomatic. It is far easier to blame something that looks out of place then to go searching for some cause that is so well hidden. Research has shown that the majority of all back pain conditions are indeed caused by psychological and emotional issues. Until doctors learn to open their minds and their diagnostic abilities to include mind/body disorders, patients are doomed to years worth of suffering. It is that simple�

Recommendation on Back Pain Diagnostic Eclecticism

It is important to trust your doctor and believe in their diagnosis. Belief in the actual cause of the problem is crucial to the resolution of all symptoms during treatment. HOWEVER,
* If you have tried all the recommended treatments with no success�
* If your doctor keeps finding new changes in the condition to explain their failure�
* If your doctor can not answer the question �WHEN WILL I GET BETTER?� �
* If your doctor is unsure why treatment is not working or of the real cause of the pain�

It is time to say �C�YA DOC !!!

Doctors must be accountable for their diagnosis. If they do not have it right, you will know it. You will not get better!!! One more week, month or year in treatment will not make a difference�The only way to a cure is proper diagnosis followed by proper treatment. If you are like most, then medicine WILL NOT be able to cure your pain. It is a simple and true statistic. Try knowledge therapy to understand the real reasons why your pain never seems to fade�

Back Pain Diagnostic Eclecticism to Lower Back Pain Home page 12/20/06 Revised 6/17/08