Albert,

I am truly sorry you have seen sides of medicine which appear ineffective and practitioners who were unhelpful.  Anyone in a healing profession can either be well trained or not, and can be in it for the wrong reasons.

Most good medical texts that discuss back pain do not advise surgery for the vast majority of cases.  It is well known, that since disc material dissolves over months, that if the disc initially causes pressure over a nerve, that things may change later on; those who are advised to get surgery may have such profound weakness that they lose strength and stumble or have lancinating pain that does not respond to conservative treatment. 

I treat low back pain; it is something I see every day.  I know there are some surgeons who will operate on almost everyone who walks in their door.   They are not good physicians.  However, their method of thinking is simply that they were trained to remove the disc fragment or bone spur compressing the nerve, and that is all they do (like a horse with blinders on).  The better surgeons, will weigh everything, and try conservative treatment first, and send many patients away rather than operate (I know several of these "good" surgeons in NYC where I practice).

We should be clear that the surgeon you mentioned was not trying to operate based on a scientific evidence-based approach.   Rather, it was based on being overaggressive and motivated by greed or pride.

As to conservative therapy, I know it works, because I have sent people to physical therapy, given them prescription pills and administered local injections; I have seen many healings.  Admittedly, every doctor is like a "chef," and some "cook" differently than others.  But I have helped many sufferers with chronic back pain.

As many who know me on this board know, I am a firm believer in the use of intent and love to heal, in addition to Western medicine.  I am completely supportive of you using other means to heal your own back problem.  I simply see no reason not to combine western medicine (based on real physical data) with the use of conscious healing intent.

M

recoverer wrote on Dec 16^th, 2010 at 4:59pm:



Hello Recoverer, or better say Albert

I have come across this thread and read it with great interest!!! Most specifically, when I read your post, I couldn't but reply.

In a nut shell, my wife has had back pain (lower back and most specifically in the middle few inches to the right of the spine) for more than 5 years now (soon after she gave birth to our daughter). She hasn't slept a single night since then, wakes up with pain. Since then, we also sleep in a separate bad as I snore and thus I would ruin her few good hours of sleep (most times with pain killers)

We went to so many different types of doctors, did MRIs, x-Rays, many many other tests, physio therapy...you name it all, spent thousands of dollars and no one manage to find the cause or heal her.

So maybe the mystery has to do with what you said! That the pain is coming from a psychological  cause. I think the last diagnoses she had was myofascial pain syndrome...which leads to no cure anyway.

I know that my wife had a couple of psychological problems in the past (like fear etc) so this could be the cause!

So my question is, how do you go about figuring these psychological issues which are causing the pain and which technique to apply? I mean, how do you go about healing this pain from the psychological issues??!!

Thank you for your time and really appreciate your help! You never know, maybe this will work

Cheers
Wonderer

recoverer wrote on Feb 21^st, 2012 at 12:53pm:


That's OK recoverer, I figured that at some point you might see it!  When the back paid had started, my wife was passing through a very difficult phase, in the sense that she had lots of negative feelings. For example, she had fear of becoming pregnant as she felt she was not good enough to be a mum. She had anger for her dad and other anxiety issues.

When I read your posts, I felt that maybe it's the same issue (as in negative feelings affecting us). Now 6 years on, I think that she got rid of those negative feelings. I had helped her a lot psychologically and I am so proud of her of how she has changed positively. I can say that nowadays she is having quite a positive life.

Unfortunately, the pain is still there even though she has a positive outlook now. but could it be that those negative feelings are still there lurking in her subconscious and thus the back pain?

Thanks for the link! I'm gonna read it right now!

Cheers