The Lowdown
on Lower Back Pain
Online Pain Program OR Christchurch Pain Reprocessing Therapy
Had enough of Back Pain?
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Back pain can make us grumpy so we have lost ourselves, changed how we interact with friends, family and workmates.
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Are you tired of finishing work and feeling exhausted?
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Concerned about whether you can actually keep doing your job, or continue to support yourself and your family?
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Is chronic pain impacting on your career and affecting your finances and your future life?
Doctors or chiropractors may have told you that you have disc degeneration or a bulging disc and you have to take medication or to have regular adjustments.
Your back needs continual adjustments or pain-killers medications you are not treating the cause of your pain, you are just treating the compensations or the symptoms.
After treatment you may have pain holiday for a few hours or days.
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But your pain returns.
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You haven’t found the reason for your pain.
Treatment Options for Back Pain
Pain Reprocessing Therapy - Christchurch
66% of those treated with PRT pain-free or nearly pain free and remained in a follow up one year later.
Patients were taught to recognise pain signals from the brain as safe and able to re-wire neural circuits.
Instead of thinking that they had any physical tissue damage.
Online Chronic Pain Support Program
From over 20 years experience Jean has written a program about chronic pain, the brain and neuroplasticity (don't worry it's not too technical).
Throughout the modules there are self-techniques, videos and audios that can be integrated into daily life.
Over time this gives the brain opportunity to change neural pathways in the brain to have a positive, gentle mindset.
Don't blame back pain on normal aging of the spine
In many countries MRI's of the spine are no longer recommended unless 'red flags' such as fractures, infection or tumours are suspected.
Research has shown that most of the changes in the spine are age related as shown in the table below. These rarely are the reason for ongoing pain.
The table below show the meta-analysis research results done in 2015, a total of 3300 people who had no symptoms of pain.
That means they do not have any back pain, but the research showed they have degeneration and bulging discs, even younger people.
Consider the circled section, healthy people in their 30’s, the table shows an average of 52% of them will have some disc degeneration.
Degeneration on it’s own may not cause back pain.
As we actually live our body experiences changes, but just because we have an X-ray of MRI that shows our back isn’t in perfect condition it may NOT be the reason for ongoing chronic back pain.
Try all options before having back surgery
Failed Back Surgery
Clinical example: 62 year old woman found out that surgery is not always the best option.
After 8 years of unremitting back pain and sciatica, not helped by any treatments or medication, she finally had a back operation only to find after 3 months her pain was worse!
Information on chronic lower back pain
Low back pain is the leading worldwide cause of years lost to disability and its burden is growing alongside the increasing and ageing population. (Prof R. Buchbinder, PhD Lancet, June 09 2018)
So I guess if you are reading this page the above includes you.
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Is it just a few days of pain?
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Years of searching for answers to regaining your full lifestyle?
In New Zealand and Australia we are now seeing an increase in the number of clinicians trained in: -
Pain Reprocessing Therapy with Alan Gordon - author of "The Way Out" a new approach to healing pain.
Neural Circuit Therapy and EAET by Howard Schubiner author of "Unlearn Your Pain"