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Chronic Herniated Disc Pain
What is Chronic Herniated Disc Pain?Chronic back pain is an epidemic condition which affects a substantial percentage of adults and even some children. Chronic back pain can be caused by a number of different conditions, but is most commonly blamed on a herniated disc. This spinal abnormality is found in many people who do not experience back pain and is a coincidental occurrence in many patients who do endure horrific chronic symptoms. Herniated discs have a fearsome reputation, based on mythologies and diagnostic nocebo, but the reality of bulging discs shows them to be mostly innocent and asymptomatic. In essence, this common condition might create short term pain in some patients, but is seldom responsible for the creation of long term unresolved back pain syndromes.Chronic Herniated Disc Pain CausesChronic disc pain rarely occurs due to the same conditions responsible for acute pain. Most chronic symptomatic concerns are not linked to a particular injury or degenerative concern, but instead are driven by an ischemic process tied to the interaction between the emotional mind and the physical body. This type of pain is called psychosomatic (also called psychologically induced or psychogenic). Some great misconceptions about psychosomatic disc pain are that it is:* ALL IN YOUR HEAD * IMAGINARY * EXAGGERATED Of course, it is possible to have lasting pain from a physical reason, but it is rare. The overwhelming majority of disc pain events resolve in 6 to 8 weeks. Nerves which are compressed by any structure (such as a herniated disc) do not cause ongoing pain; they cause numbness, since they cease signaling completely in a short time. Patients who continue to experience pain for months or even years, are likely to be suffering from a psychosomatic source, or at least a psychosomatic perpetuation, if they did indeed suffer an acute disc injury at one time. Don’t forget, psychosomatic conditions often carry on physical symptoms in a location which was the site of a previous injury. This makes the syndrome all the more convincing… Chronic Herniated Disc Pain AdviceThe amount of patients with chronic disc pain numbers in the hundreds of millions (at least). It seems there is no helping there poor souls using appropriate medical, complementary or even surgical interventions. Their pain continues year in and year out, without getting any better. While most of these patients question the effectiveness of their treatments, virtually NONE consider the validity of their diagnosis. This is THE REASON why so many herniated disc patients never get better. They are simply pursuing treatment for a condition which is not even responsible for their pain. Yes, they have a herniated disc. So what? So do I. So do many people without pain. The disc is not the cause of the symptoms; it has merely been blamed for them.Discover the actual cause of the pain and you will have found your cure. It is that simple. If you are still resistant to the idea that a psychosomatic process might be at least partially responsible for your chronic herniated disc pain, then you must really want to hold on to the suffering. I know that when this idea was brought up to me, I was receptive to the theory, since I was desperate for a cure. If you truly want to heal, you must open your mind to something new… Incidentally, knowledge therapy has proven itself to be a permanent cure for millions with a variety of chronic pain syndromes. Is it too good to be true? Well, it is free (or at least very inexpensive). You can use it yourself, without a doctor. It works fast… 7/5/08 Revised 12/4/09
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