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Difficult Cases

In order to help people understand more about my BMSA Chronic Pain Program I'd like to offer some "tough" cases that explain why so many people experience such fast and permanent relief even when they've suffered for many years, and have tried so many other treatments in the past.


I often have chronic pain patients telephone or email to ask if I can guarantee they'll be amongst the 95% of people who get miraculous results.  I want to make it clear that I cannot give that guarantee.


The best indication of whether or not a patient will get total elimination or reduction of their pain is how long they've suffered.


So it doesn't matter how severe your pain is, it doesn't matter that you may have actual joint/disc damage, it doesn't matter if you have nerve damage.


Simply put, despite all of these things, the longer a person has had pain, the more likely they'll get total relief very quickly, even immediately.


Why?  Because the longer they've suffered, the more likely it is that their body is producing TRUE chronic pain.  And as I've already explained, TRUE chronic pain isn't directly associated with injury or damage.  True chronic pain is produced by the body irrespective of injury.


Remember I told you about the interesting study on spinal damage and chronic pain?  And it turned out that there was no match?  That's right, many people with no damage had severe pain, and many people with severe damage had no pain.


Most doctors agree that injury has little bearing on chronic pain, they just don't know what to do about it apart from giving you medication as if it were some kind of headache!


The reason we've been so successful in treating chronic pain where other methods have failed, is because we address the actual cause of the pain - the conditioned responses that your nervous system has accumulated.  These turn your nervous system into something like a car alarm that goes off just because there is a tiny breeze.  Car alarms aren't capable of learning, but your nervous system is.  And as you'll see from the cases below, it learns very quickly and very well!


Three Examples of Difficult Cases Where All Other Treatment Had Failed

Case Study:  Male, 32 years of age, severe phantom pain:

"Peter" was referred to us by his doctor.  He had become paraplegic 8 years earlier after a quad bike accident on a farm, and had suffered unbearable shooting pains down his back and into his hips and legs.  Various treatments had failed to make any difference to his chronic pain, even though the strong medication he was taking left him spaced out and barely able to think.

The reason that other treatments had failed is that they failed to address the cause of the pain.  Peter's nervous system had "learned" to "go off"  in response to so many things that he was in constant pain.  Our job was to "mess up the learning" so that his nervous system completely forgot to trigger pain.

You can easily understand this concept if you think about learning the multiplication tables.  Most adults know these tables automatically.  But if I got you to start saying the multiplication tables out loud, and at the same time I started randomly and rapidly calling out numbers, you'd find that you'd quickly lose the ability for automatic recall!

The BMSA Chronic Pain Program precisely and successfully "messes up the learning" of your nervous system, so it forgets to produce pain signals.  Peter was one of the lucky 50% who achieved 100% pain elimination on the first day of treatment, and was still completely pain free 2 years later.


Case Study: Female, 58 years of age, severe chronic back pain:

"Beatrice" self referred to our program after years of struggling with chronic back pain that was associated with extreme disc degeneration.  Her doctor had told her that her only hope was spinal fusion surgery.

She was on strong analgesic medication, and yet reported that her pain level was almost constantly "8 out of 10" - very high.  She was unable to hold her small grandchild, and had had to cut back on working hours as a corporate librarian, and was now faced with forced retirement solely due to her incapacitating chronic pain.

Studies consistently show that deterioration of spinal vertebrae and discs is not correlated with reported pain, or with the levels of reported pain.  So even though their doctor may feel that the situation is hopeless, we always feel very confident when presented with such a patient because we know that the pain is being generated as true chronic pain.

We worked with Beatrice to identify her chronic pain patterns and used BMSA to interrupt those. Some people think that this is what the TENS machine does, but in fact the TENS machine doesn't have any lasting effect, and we now know this is because it doesn't have any way of permanently altering chronic pain patterns, and does not alter the patterns in the right way.  

For instance one of Beatrice's "pain patterns" was her internal thoughts about how the damaged area of her spine "looked".  Of course she couldn't really see this but readily complied with our request to describe it "from the inside".  We had Beatrice talk about and picture this area as we used BMSA with her.

This is just one example of the myriad possibilities of issues which are most definitely involved in the production of chronic pain.

Beatrice's outcome was that she was able to decrease her chronic pain very significantly and no longer required surgery.  She stopped taking her analgesics and reported a pain level of 1-2, which she could easily tolerate after years of agony.  She was now able to lift her grandchild, and increased her working hours instead of the planned decrease.

Could we have done more?  Perhaps, but Beatrice was very happy with what we had achieved together and wanted to stop her chronic pain treatment program and get on with her life.  And who could blame her for that when she now had so much to enjoy!

Case Study:  Female, 48 years of age, chronic pain from full-body rheumatoid arthritis:

"Patricia" was a fascinating patient who self referred to us for smoking cessation treatment. However she was in such pain that she was finding it difficult to focus on the treatment and it seemed more practical for us to suggest that perhaps we could help her to be more physically comfortable before proceeding.

In this case we didn't feel that we could have very much impact because Patricia's hips and knee joints were actually grating on one another.  She felt not only the pain, but the physical sensation of bones grinding.  Her chronic pain was so severe that she could walk only with the greatest difficulty, and in fact said that she was about to purchase a motor scooter because she simply found it so agonising to be mobile.

We first identified the direct pain patterns relating to the hips and knees and were surprised to achieve an immediate 100% elimination of her chronic pain in those areas. Patricia got up and walked about the room with no difficulty but with some awkwardness. She explained that although there was absolutely no pain, she could still feel the bones grating.

We didn't believe we could do anything about that but offered to try, which Patricia accepted.  So now we turned our attention to the direct sensory patterns associated with the grating sensation and were more than a little surprised when Patricia reported that this also had completely disappeared.

Patricia was able to walk around the consultation room with total ease and no pain or discomfort whatsoever.  This was a very emotional moment for her of course!

Patricia did not return for more treatment but we ran into her at a furniture exhibition several months later and were delighted to see her walking around, although with a slight hobble.  On asking after her health and expressing delight that she was able to be mobile, Patricia denied that she had any lasting effect and claimed to be "right back at square one", in full denial of the fact that she was doing something she had not been able to do previously.

We learned a great deal from Patricia, with the primary lesson being that sometimes fast isn't good.  Patricia most certainly would have benefited from a far slower paced chronic pain management program or chronic pain treatment program, and is a good example of people who need more time to absorb and deal with improvement in smaller steps rather than the shock of huge change.

We enjoy telling Patricia's story in order to share our own learning, and also as a teaching story for patients, to help them to identify ways in which they themselves might sabotage their success.  Being human, we're all capable of that.


Approximately 25% of people don't get immediate relief for their pain, but this doesn't mean they won't experience improvement if they stick with the program and keep up their communication with us through the client-only support forum, or via private consultation.


If you still have doubts about whether my BMSA Chronic Pain Program can help you, I welcome your telephone call on 61.8.92461977 (Western Australia - Business Hours Only) or your email on info@realhelpforchronicpain.com.

But if you even suspect that this program could be the final solution you've been looking for, then you owe it to yourself to at least make the attempt, and give it your best shot.  We're keen to work with you, and totally committed to making your life pain free.  Click HERE to choose from the treatment options available to you!

To your peace and happiness,

Christine Sutherland 

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