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Add to this the fact that even major medical associations have recently begun to caution doctors not to assume structural irregularities are the true sources of pain in most chronic complaints and you can see the huge elephant in the room when it comes to back pain therapy.

Basically, doctors typically blame conditions which may not be causative. This is mostly due to antiquated medical knowledge, a purely Cartesian philosophy proven to be unenlightened and sometimes, pure financial greed on the part of the treating physician.

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That’s right… They are NORMAL.

It is almost unheard of to find an adult without one or more of these spinal conditions, whether they are experiencing pain or not.

Diagnostic imaging studies often discover these conditions by accident, while testing for something unrelated to back pain. These patients have not experienced any symptoms, even though their spinal abnormalities might be considered severe by diagnostic standards. Meanwhile lesser forms of the same conditions are blamed for creating pain in other patients.

How does it all make any sense?

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Patients often experience symptoms in a distinct anatomic location that are blamed on a coincidental condition that can not possibly be the symptomatic source. The spinal condition might affect a particular nerve root, yet symptoms are experienced in an area not even served by that affected nerve. Often, the symptoms move around and change, yet the diagnosed scapegoat spinal condition remains static and treatment is not altered. How does it make sense to blame pain on a completely innocent coincidental spinal abnormality? THIS is the multi-billion dollar question…

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New doctors have access to far improved educational components than doctors did just a decade ago. Now, young doctors are taught to question more and assume less.

Mindbody medicine has become an inherent component of physical healthcare and is reflected in the training doctors now receive before going in to private practice.

Most of all, doctors are no longer afraid to tell a patient their pain may be idiopathic and not sourced from a definitive causation. While this is frustrating and not as profitable for care providers, at least it is a step forward compared to misidentifying an incorrect cause and treating that cause unnecessarily for years, without success.

If you have been in treatment for a long time with poor results, you need a change. The answer for your pain is not in finding the correct specialist who may hold the final solution to your pain question. The true answer is to study why your pain might not make sense according to the diagnosed condition. Sometimes you must repudiate the standing diagnosis in order to get better.

Many of the abnormal conditions in your spine are universal and should actually be called SPINAL NORMALITIES instead of abnormalities. Remember this during your research.

The bottom line comes down to this... Never assume a disc or bone issue is the source of pain unless it has been studied exhaustively and proven definitively to be so. This holds true regardless of whether you are a patient or the most experienced spine doctor in the world.