IS YOUR BACK PAIN CHANGING YOUR BRAIN???

BBC NEWS | Health | Back pain linked to brain changes

"Chronic back pain is linked to physical changes in the brain, according to researchers in Germany.

A team found patients with the condition also had microstructural changes in the pain-processing areas of their brains."

Unfortunately, the quote from Dr Jurgen Lutz is very much the reality for a signifigant number of 'chronic pain sufferers',

"A major problem for patients with chronic pain is making their condition believable to doctors, relatives and insurance carriers"

...which poses the question 'why'? Why is it that so many people have difficulty in believing the extent of anothers suffering?

Could it be a lack of understanding of the actual cause? After all, time and time again we hear of cases where the medical community have been stumped as to the causes of pain. In some cases the suggestion is made that it is psychosomatic.

And while I'm in danger of banging on about posure again, just think for a moment, what if it really is that simple? What if our societal obsession with technology and fine detail has meant that we (and the medics) can't see the provebial wood from the trees? (More about this later...)

What is very cool about a study like this is, while it does nothing to tell us how to eliminate the cause of the pain, it very much indicates that the body does indeed work as a unit (thank you Mr Egoscue!).

I for one eagerly await further studies to confirm what Pete Egoscue has been saying for 30 years or so...

Thanks for Graham Wilson for sending me the link for this article. Graham was a student on the recent Egoscue PAS Level I Seminar in London last week (taught by Matt and I). I'm looking forward to hearing about great success from him in the near future.

Talk soon,

Donal