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Lower Back Pain
Lower back pain has been described by some
doctors
as the most painful condition a person could possibly experience in their life. For millions of patients with severe
chronic lumbar back pain,
this statement rings loud and true. As a former patient myself, I can attest to the fact that my pain was unimaginably and indescribably torturous to endure. The pain controlled my life, my abilities, my functionality, my attitude, my hopes for the future, and my views of the past. For me and millions like me, back pain became the most influential force in life. * Low Back Pain Relief Lower Back Pain HistoryThe epidemic of lumbar back pain is a fairly recent event. Throughout history, there is little evidence of large numbers of patients complaining of treatment resistant back pain. In the last 50 years, the incidence of lumbar back pain has simply grown out of control. Back pain is the #1 reason for a person to miss work. Back pain is the #2 reason for a person to visit a doctor. These statistics are frightening and nonsensical. Why have our collective lower backs suddenly gone so wrong after millions of years of evolutionary development?It has been said by many philosophers and religious leaders that life here on Earth is actually our trial, our hell. There is a promise of paradise in the next life, since all of our suffering is done here in this physical existence. I spent many hours pondering this idea since back pain seemed like such a cruel and inhumane punishment to endure. I wonder if these innovators of thought and doctrine also suffered from horrific back pain… Lower Back Pain TreatmentsMedical science supposes that almost all low back pain is caused by some abnormal spinal condition. Medicine has developed hundreds of diagnoses and thousands of treatments for a variety of suspected problematic conditions. It is ironic that the more medicine has developed in its understanding of why chronic back pain occurs, the more patients have begun to experience symptoms. Every year, more patients develop lumbar back pain and enter long term treatment programs than are ever cured of their painful symptoms. There are simply far more patients that continue to suffer, than there are patients who EVER fully recover. This is an unacceptable statistic.If medical science is so sure of the physical reasons for back pain, how come they can do so little to cure it? How come they can barely control the symptoms using powerful
drugs
and allow the underlying cause to remain untreated? How come back pain has become an epidemic condition with no sign of slowing down or ending? Lower Back Pain RealityMedical science has completely missed the point when it comes to back pain and other psychosomatic pain syndromes. Doctors discount the role of the mind in the creation of physical symptoms, even though the mind/body interaction has been well documented in science. This is the main reason for the extreme propagation of unresolved back pain syndromes. All the treatments in the world will not cure psychologically induced pain if the therapies are directed at a misdiagnosed cause, such as a spinal irregularity. Back pain is just the latest in a historical series of psychosomatic conditions. As medicine evolves, it will eventually concede the role of the mind in the creation of most back pain syndromes and a new psychosomatic pain syndrome will take over as new king of the hill. Back pain replaced stomach ulcers as the most common psychogenic pain expression. What will take over for back pain? Who knows, but it WILL happen, unless medical science learns to think outside the box when it comes to the subconscious mind and its power over the physical body. Medicine needs to stop equating the mind/body connection to one pain syndrome at a time and realize that the mind and body work hand in hand to control all aspects of health and disease. Once this is an accepted part of medical training for new physicians, then and only then will the epidemic of mind/body conditions finally cease.Recommendation for Lower Back PainThe back pain industry continues to develop new and profitable treatments even though curative results are poor. No one seems to question the abysmal statistics of most back pain treatments and surgeries. Patients and society just seem to accept these failures as part of our suffering condition. Doctors are trying to help and for that, I give them credit. However, I do not give them a free pass concerning medicine’s stance against the acceptance of mind/body interaction. Research and results have proven the link time and time again, but medical science has turned a blind eye towards the truth. The time for a paradigm shift in the attitude of physical medicine has arrived. The future of physical medicine lies in the mind, not the body. In the future, doctors will finally discover all the methods the mind uses to create physical pain through psychological processes. In the future, doctors will suspect a psychological cause for almost all matters of health, disease, and apparent injury. In the future, patients might finally be free from the torment of chronic lower back pain. Unfortunately, in the present, we continue to hope, to wish, to SUFFER…YOUR BACK PAIN STORY Share your own back pain story with the world by taking part in my interactive forum. Speak out now and make a difference! Please subscribe to my FREE E-Zine, The Cure Back Pain Forever Newsletter. Lower Back Pain to Back Pain Home page 8/15/07 Revised 5/9/08
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