TopLifeSolutions.com - Relieving Long-Term Pain

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Thursday, 22 May 2008
7 Easy Steps to Finally Get Rid of Chronic 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 (or just through the passing of time), roughly 20% of chronic pain sufferers never get relief. These are the people who will almost certainly be helped by this BMSA (Brief, Multi-Sensory Activation). Is Your Pain Actually Chronic Pain? When pain continues over a long period, despite treatment, we can usually attribute that to a peculiar type of pain called chronic pain. Chronic pain usually 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 pain for a long time, despite trying many treatments, you are most likely to have chronic pain, and the BMSA approach 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. 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. An Experiment with BMSA So you can see how BMSA works, we’ve designed a little experiment that works for most people. It’s a little crazy-looking at first glance, but don’t let that fool you. BMSA has been tested in clinical trials and has a very sound scientific theory behind it! Take a moment to think about your pain, and make up a sentence that exactly describes the pain in your own words. This might be something like: I have this burning pain in the middle of my lower back but a bit to the left I have this stabbing pain just above my tailbone I have this deep ache near my left hip Etc, etc, etc. Notice that you’re describing the type of pain, and where it’s located. Now rate that pain out of 10, with 10 out of 10 being the most awful pain you could possibly imagine, and 0 out of 10 being no pain whatsoever. Now you’re going to say that statement over and over again, maybe 12 times, each time saying something silly on the end of it. And at the same time you’re going to keep up a quick tapping process all over your head and body, using your fingertips to tap on your head, shoulders, face, chest, legs, anywhere you can reach. Mix it up, using tapping on the spot, tapping out shapes or letters of the alphabet. If my sentence were “I have this deep ache near my left hip”, I would start this tapping, all the while saying: “I have this deep ache near my left hip, but polka dots taste crunchy.” Say this 12 times, tapping away. When you’re done, start tapping on the top of your chest, just focussing on the pain, take as deep a breath as you can through your nose, and then blow out as forcefully as you can through your mouth. Now rate that exact pain in that exact place. You may notice other pain, or it might seem that the pain has moved, but what you’re most intent on finding out is what has happened in that exact location. Is that pain still the same number out of 10, or has something happened there? This is just a little taste of what BMSA can do, but of course it’s not the whole picture. The book “The Pain Train – Time to Get Off” spells out much more detail and steps you through a personalised program designed to eliminate your pain permanently. Clinicians will find more technical information, including the neurophysiological basis for the treatment approach on www.bmsa-int.com. How Much Does the "Real Help for Chronic Pain" Program Cost, and How Do I Register? Cost depends on your treatment choice. If you elect to purchase the manual and work through that on your own or under the supervision of your clinician, the cost of purchase is just $US67. You can purchase the manual HERE. You may also decide to enrol as a client of RealHelpforChronicPain.com so that you can access one-on-one help to treat your chronic pain on the forums and in that case you get your manual FOR FREE! Finally, you may decide that you'd prefer to work in private, one-on-one with a therapist actually trained in the BMSA method. Check out the "Clinics" section to find therapists whom we have accredited to work with chronic pain. Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 887 Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment You must be logged in to a comment. Please register if you do not have an account yet.
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