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Back Pain Trigger
Psychological Back Pain TriggerWhen the subconscious mind decides to use back pain as a distraction from emotionally charged issues, it will find an appropriate time and place to start the condition. This strategy will make the pain more convincing. If the pain is instantly recognized as a psychological process, the distraction will not work. The subconscious mind is well aware of this fact. Therefore, the subconscious will often take the opportunity of a back pain trigger to start a convincing pain syndrome.What is a Back Pain Trigger?A trigger is an event that starts off a psychologically induced pain syndrome. It can be an actual event that leads to injury, such as a fall or car accident. In this case, the back injury is real, but the mind continues the pain long after the anatomical damage has healed. This is a very common occurrence for many patients. This is also the reason why most back pain patients will never think that their pain is psychologically induced. I have heard it said a million times…“No, my pain is REAL. I was hurt in an accident…” Of course they were hurt. Accidents do happen. No one is denying that…However, healing also happens. When you have a long term chronic condition of treatment resistant back pain, you can almost be sure that the continuation of the pain is psychological in nature. Sometimes, the pain trigger is only a perceived injury. This type of occurrence is just as common as a trigger due to an actual injury. A person might open a stuck window, bend over, twist or lift something, and suddenly feel a surge of pain. Tests will reveal no actual damage or a coincidental condition (pre-existing herniated disc, or spinal arthritis for example) that has nothing to do with the perceived injury. The patient is in agony due to the convincing nature of the psychological pain. Even if the doctor finds no injuries, the patient will often insist that the doctor is incompetent. These patients truly believe that they have been significantly wounded. I have also spoken to several of these angry people… “The doctors are stupid! I hurt my back lifting and they all say that I am fine…well, I am not fine, I am in agony!!!” It is rare for these patients to come to terms with the actual nature of their pain. They will simply endure the pain while all the while blaming it on a perfectly innocent event.
Recommendation on a Back Pain TriggerI have experienced both sides of the back pain trigger scenario. I have endured chronic back pain that came on after an actual injury, as well as many episodes of pain that were created by perceived injuries. Training in martial arts left me exposed to many opportunities for convincing pain triggers. The longer you suffer with pain, the easier it is to rationalize why the pain exists. You find yourself blaming almost ANY event as the reason for your present pain.I have also experienced horrible back pain that seemed to come from no reason in particular. These events were very useful for me to remember when I was in the process of curing my back pain using knowledge therapy. The severity of the pain did not seem to coincide with the damage potential of any of the triggers I had experienced. This fact helped me to see part of why my back pain did not make any anatomical sense. Time and study filled in the rest of that picture for me and now I am pain free. After 18 long years of suffering with agonizing back pain, I had finally discovered that the real cure was inside of me all along… I did it…You can too !!!
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