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Eliminate Persistent PainCure Back Pain

7 Easy Steps to Finally Get Rid of Back Pain

Lower back pain is the single most common chronic pain, experienced by 60-80% of the population at some time in their lives.  Even though many people can achieve healing through good physiotherapy or other treatment programs, roughly 20% of lower back pain sufferers never get relief.

These are the people who will almost certainly be helped by this article.

Is Your Back Pain Actually Chronic Pain?

When back or other pain continues over a long period, despite treatment, we can usually attribute that to a peculiar type of pain called chronic pain.  Chronic back pain isn’t actually related to any injury or deterioration of the spine, muscles or nerves.  We know this because studies show that there is no relationship between damage and pain.

If you were presented with a number of spine x-rays for example, and you were asked to guess which people had the most pain, you’d be wrong in most cases because people with no damage can have extreme pain, and people with a lot of damage might be completely unaware that there is anything wrong.

Chronic pain is not actually generated by the body, it is generated in the brain in response to normal signalling, and the proof of this lies in fMRI, or functional magnetic resonance imaging, which shows maps of the working brain.  Brain maps of chronic pain look just like brain maps of intense emotion.  This is very, very different to the brain maps of acute pain!

So this is why, if you’ve had your back pain for a long time, despite trying many treatments, you are most likely to have chronic pain, and this article is most likely to help you.

7 Steps to Eliminate Chronic Pain

Step 1:  Eliminating Stress.  If you have chronic pain, your nervous system is behaving a lot like a faulty car alarm that is going off for no good reason.  The more stressed you are, the more your pain signalling will behave in this way.  If your nerves are jangling, your pain will be worse.  So you need to make a decision to deal with the stress in your life, today.

Step 2: Emotional Reactions.  Do you have strong emotional reactions to things?  This doesn’t help chronic pain because it heightens the reactivity of your nervous system.  You might be surprised to learn that there are actually ways to switch off unwanted emotional reactions so that you feel calm and can think more clearly, even in a crisis.  Check out www.bmsa-int.com, which is a site for medical practitioners who are using this method very successfully with their clients.

Step 3:  Being Sociable.  I know it can be difficult to mix with people when you’re in pain, but social withdrawal or isolation is not only incredibly damaging to your general health and wellbeing, but it enhances your pain reactions as well.  It’s necessary to make an effort to mix with people in a way that has nothing to do with your pain, so that you can at least for a short time put your focus somewhere else, and get all the benefits that “social engagement” offers.

Step 4:  Being Active.  People who don’t get enough physical activity have death rates higher than the combined rates of smoking, drinking, and unsafe sex!  That’s how important physical activity is.  Physical activity increases your metabolic rate and gives you energy, boosts your immune system and supports good health, and keeps your muscles strong so that they support your bones and joints properly.  There’s always a way to increase activity, no matter how disabling your pain is, and no matter your movement constraints.

Step 5: Have an Interest or Hobby.  When we’ve got nothing to think about except our pain, our pain gets worse.  It’s as if the nervous system picks up on all the attention it’s getting and delivers more!  The more you can get your focus absorbed in something else, the more you can help to trick your nervous system into shutting down the pain signalling.

Step 6: Check Co-Dependency.  You might be surprised to learn that pain depends on environmental factors, and that if your brain thinks that the pain is useful in your circumstances, it may well try to keep it going!  Is your pain serving any useful purpose (no matter how twisted) in your family life?  Maybe not, but it’s definitely worth checking out!

Step 7:  Use BMSA (Brief, Multi-Sensory Activation).  BMSA is designed to re-train your nervous system so that it stops producing chronic pain signals.  Most people get relief immediately, and over 50% of people can eliminate their pain totally.  Another 30-40% can reduce their pain dramatically, all through using BMSA.

BMSA is the method I shared with you on the home page of this site.

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