Working with a Herniated DiscWorking with a herniated disc can be a perilous proposition for any affected patient. Most patients who must deal with the daily grind of working for a living, while simultaneously suffering with disc pain, can tell you that the physical and emotional symptoms involved can bring them to tears.
The ironic part of working with a disc pain problem is that it does not seem to matter what type of work you actually do. The condition WILL affect your work and it WILL cause you to associate pain with your job…* If you sit at a desk, I bet you get sore from sitting too much. * If you work hard labor, I bet all that lifting really kills your back. * If you must stand all day, I bet all that standing makes your back worse. * If you must move a lot, I bet all that activity really aggravates the disc. See, it does not matter specifically what you do, it is merely the fact that you MUST work and are suffering with pain, so it is natural to associate normal working conditions with the intensification and perpetuation of your symptoms…
While every patient will have a long list of reasons why their specific job description aggravates their bad back, the actual causes of their discomfort typically elude them. If you have already learned the
facts about herniated discs,
you will know that disc pain is almost NEVER a chronic condition. The reason most patients endure lasting pain is from a
psychosomatic
perpetuation of the symptoms and in some cases, a psychogenic causation of pain to begin with…It is normal for work to be one of the major stressors in our lives. We might enjoy our work or simply hate it, but we do feel controlled by our professions and very pressured by our need to perform. This is a major factor in psychosomatic symptom escalation and ties into almost every chronic back pain syndrome I have ever witnessed. Working with a Herniated Disc AdviceGetting to the heart of the problem is the key to unlocking the mystery of disc pain. Losing the ridiculous notions of chronic structural pain and why your back hurts because of this… this… and that… is vital to recovering. Unfortunately, this is beyond the ability of some patients. Instead of finding a real cure by looking deeper into the actual reasons why work makes their pain so much worse, they simply choose to accept the agony until it strikes them down… causing the nightmarish reality which plagues their subconscious everyday… the time finally comes when pain controls their lives and prevents them from working EVER AGAIN.This is the same fear I had deep in my heart for the 18 years spent suffering from chronic back pain due to my 2 herniated discs and degenerative disc disease. I was fixated on the structural myths of back pain and never got to visualize the real reasons for my pain. Luckily, I found the answer using knowledge therapy. I broke that vicious cycle of pain in a matter of weeks and have been mostly pain-free ever since. Working with a Herniated Disc to Herniated Disc 2/3/09 Revised 7/18/11 |
Sensei Adam Rostocki
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