How angry do you get when your health professional tells you that your chronic pain is "in your head", or that it's your fault for "creating the pain" with your thoughts? You are certainly not alone, because literally millions of people are experiencing the same thing. We know that chronic pain rates have increased dramatically of the past 4 decades, and that the vast majority of doctor visits are because of chronic pain, and that in turn the majority of this suffering is severe enough to stop people from holding down a job. We also know that the cost of the cost of treating chronic pain is over $12 billion a year in Australia (more than double that in the USA) and that the majority of these treatments are a waste of time and money. Are you surprised to discover that there are many millions of people just like you, who've tried so hard to follow the doctors instructions, taken the drugs, even tried the surgery, but still have relentless chronic pain? As so often happens, has your doctor or health practitioner basically given up and begun to tell you that it's your fault that you have the pain, and referred you to a CBT program (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)? And have they tried spinning you the line about "your thoughts create your pain"? Sometimes they may even have told you that it's your anger that's creating the pain! What they need to realise is that it's the failure of the programs that has given rise to your righteous anger! But how did it come to this? In truth it's not really fair to blame your health practitioners, because there is so little quality research to guide them. And there is so much misinformation, and even fraud, which comes out of so-called research. For instance many professionals believe that CBT is the best treatment for a range of disorders including chronic pain, and yet careful analysis of research studies show that it is a waste of time, with no significant benefit. Are you getting angrier? You have a right to be. But rather than use that anger in a way that helps no-one, use it to take action and learn a simple treatment method that has a very high success rate instead! Then go back and tell your doctor what you've achieved! A NEW WAY TO DEAL WITH CHRONIC PAIN So at the moment we can't blame your specialists for being unaware of the failure rates of their methods, because they're being mislead or even lied to by promoters of these methods. There are millions of dollars invested in drug development and training programs, and this is at huge risk when the truth gets out. But that's no excuse for your specialist to say that willpower is the answer to your pain. That's plain stupid. Has your pain specialist talked to you about lifestyle factors that influence pain levels? It's true that some specialists have a surface understanding of these, but we've never found one that knew how to effectively help patients with these important factors. It's so important to understand that chronic pain and acute pain are very different creatures. Acute pain is short-term pain that accurately reflects damage, a wound or injury. Chronic pain is generated irrespective of injury, and brain mapping proves in fact that chronic pain is generated in just the same way as we generate negative emotions like anger, grief, or fearfulness. So this explains why physical treatments are so ineffective, and why treatments using willpower (like CBT) are so cruel and worthless. Quite simply, these treatments don't even begin to touch the causes of chronic pain. Especially when many of those causes you aren't even consciously aware of! (I'll explain more about that soon.) Without question, for a chronic pain treatment to work, it must identify and resolve the conscious and unconscious triggers that are causing and escalating your pain, and these will certainly not merely comprise your physical symptoms. This will certainly not include doing anything so ridiculous as trying to force yourself to think using different words inside your brain! A new understanding of chronic pain, proven by brain mapping and clinical research, has shown the way to treatment that works. HOW CHRONIC PAIN OCCURS Chronic pain is very different from acute pain. Acute pain is what we feel immediately we are damaged, or experience an injury of some kind. Acute pain is directly related to the wound or damage. Chronic pain usually arises at or near the acute phase (although it may surface years later) and isn't related to the injury, because it persists even though healing is complete. Chronic pain often makes no sense at all, and this just adds to the suffering of the patient, especially if they're being hounded or harrassed over a workers' compensation action! Did you know that it's impossible to guess whether someone has back pain just from looking at x-rays of their spines? That's a well-known fact, and just one of the things that helped us to understand how very different chronic pain is to acute pain! Chronic pain isn't caused by actual physical damage - it is caused by the nervous system. To put this very simply, the nervous system becomes over sensitised much like a car alarm that goes off just because of a little breeze. But luckily for us your nervous system has one particular very big advantage over a car alarm, and that advantage is that your nervous system is capable of learning. We don't need to get a mechanic in to chop wires because we can actually teach your nervous system to stop over-reacting to things like temperature or humidity, stress of any kind, and the full gamut of weird reactions we've seen over the years! When your nervous system "goes off" in this way, we refer to that as a "pain pattern" because it's something that does happen continuously, or over and over again. It's actually a learned action that your nervous system does, and the correct term for it is "conditioned response". We don't know yet why some people develop chronic pain and others don't, except that there are a few clues that DNA could be involved. That's not really important, because genes or not, the cure is just the same, and just as easy. The range of conditioned responses that each person has can be very small, or quite large - it's different from one person to another. In any case, it's a simple matter to in most cases to do the digging to discover them, and then to destroy them so they can't hurt you any more. Most of our patients really enjoy "the hunt" and are ecstatic as they eliminate each one! A METHOD TO KNOCK OUT CHRONIC PAIN SO THAT IT NEVER RETURNS It used to be thought that these types of conditioned responses of the nervous system were difficult or even impossible to do anything about. But nowadays we know that conditioned responses are nothing like as tough as we used to think, and in fact are incredibly weak provided we know how to work with them. (And telling you to change your thinking is NOT the way!) We now know that conditioned responses are very vulnerable to breakdown. It's not like the fear response you'd get if a stanger jumped out at you from a dark alley. That's not a conditioned response, but a survival response! Conditioned responses are vulnerable because if they are interfered with as they try to "run", they rapidly deteriorate and disappear. This doesn't mean triggering the pain, of course! We're not interested in anything that does that! What it does mean is getting hold of thoughts and feelings relating to the pain, and focusing very precisely on those at exactly the same time as you might be tapping on your head, or singing a song, or smelling different smells. The trick is to use simple, easy multi-sensory stimulation over the top of your thoughts relating to the pain. You can learn to do this very easily for yourself, and we call the program BMSA, or Brief, Multi-Sensory Activation. THE BMSA CHRONIC PAIN PROGRAM - WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT One of the best things about this chronic pain treatment is that if you're going to be one of the 80-90% of people who'll get results, you'll know from the immediate start, because most people notice some kind of improvement right away. And what about the end result? Well 50% of people have completely wiped out their chronic pain, permanently. (This is an astounding figure when you consider that other programs regard 30% who only REDUCE their pain to be a great result!) The remainder reduce their pain by more than 50%, and a small number get no result at all. So far the failure rate (maybe 2%) seems to be due to actual medical factors, such as hip degeneration severe enough to warrant hip replacement. We've certainly never blamed a client if the program didn't work for them! Many people find it tempting to just take their early result as some kind of miracle and go away. We've found that this is a mistake, and it's crucial to complete the program, even if you're experiencing little or no pain. It's only by completing the program that you and we can have confidence that we've got a permanent result for you. We are committed to achieving an end result which delivers complete resolution or solid decrease in your pain, with no or little medication required, and which includes getting your life back!
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