Psychogenic Back Pain

Psychogenic back pain is a specific type of psychological back pain. This type of pain is very common and like other forms of psychosomatic pain, is rarely correctly diagnosed by medical doctors. This misdiagnosis is yet another reason for the back pain epidemic that is currently growing worldwide.

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What is Psychogenic Back Pain?

Psychogenic Pain is defined as pain that is created in the subconscious mind, but experienced in the body. This pain is 100% REAL and is in no way imaginary. The symptoms can be measured by medical science and will seem to be a completely physical pain syndrome. However, there are no organic, environmental or structural reasons for the pain. This pain is usually created as a defense mechanism to protect the individual from overwhelming painful emotional issues that are repressed by the subconscious mind. Psychogenic describes a form of psychosomatic symptom that does not originate from a back injury or degenerative back pain process. Other forms of psychological back pain might have been real injuries at one time or might be slightly symptomatic physically degenerative conditions that have been perpetuated and aggrandized by the maladapted psychological process causing the pain.

Psychogenic Back Pain Concern

The majority of patients with treatment resistant or unresolved back pain will not recover. This is a sad but truthful fact. The reason that these patients are doomed to suffer is that medical science is still in the dark ages when it comes to acknowledging, diagnosing and treating psychological pain syndromes. It is clear from statistics that medicine has completely missed the point when it comes to present views on back pain and other psychologically induced pain syndromes.

Patients need to learn the facts about back pain and stop listening to the myths of how the spine is such a fragile and delicate structure. Patients need to learn how they might have been mislead by blaming all their pain on some back pain scapegoat condition, when all along the pain has been caused by their subconscious mind. When you look at this point of view, it is easy to answer the millions of patients that constantly ask,

"How come NO treatment seems to cure my pain?�

After all, how can a treatment directed at a mistaken physical cause cure a psychological condition?
IT CAN�T and IT WON�T�

Recommendation on Psychogenic Back Pain

Well at this point you are probably having one of 2 customary reactions to this page�

* �WOW�I never thought of this possibility. This might explain why my pain has lasted so long and has fought back against all the medical treatments. I am going to investigate this possibility further.�

* "This guy is nuts. I am really injured. I am insulted that he thinks my pain is all in my head. I am not crazy. I think he is crazy!!! I am so mad�SO MAD� SOOO MADDDD�Ouch my back hurts. Hunny, get me my pills please��

Ok, so if you are thinking the former choice, then congrats! I recommend learning more about knowledge therapy so that you can END your pain FOREVER. If you are one of the latter, well what can I say? I used to be like you. Now there is one IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE...

You still have BACK PAIN. I am PAIN FREE. I think you get my point�

Psychogenic Back Pain to Lower BackPain Home 2/4/07 Revised 7/16/08