Healing Your Back Of Chronic Pain
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Got back pain?
Tried treatment without success?
Relief might be closer than you think.
Try these ten things before resorting to surgery.
There’s a new science to back pain beyond stretches, rest, and pain killers.
You may have developed a habitual pain response, which can be retriggered by both physical and mental stresses.
While we consciously feel pain on one side of our bodies, the primitive base of our brain maps pain responses to both sides of the body. These responses can continue to plague us until we track down their initial cause and effect. But once we do, chronic unresolved pain can ease entirely.
In this short, researched book, Dr. Maloney explains how habitual pain responses can be caused by both physical and emotional triggers.These triggers form a map of your pain, and finding that map can lead to results when nothing else will work.
When he was twelve years old, Christopher Maloney found out he had a “bad back.” But decades later Dr. Christopher Maloney, N.D., doesn’t live in chronic pain. He has worked for years to discover solutions beyond the conventional.
In the process, Dr. Maloney discovered a map of back pain. He has used that map to help hundreds of people with back pain and now shares the map with the world.
Before he became a doctor, Dr. Maloney gave massages to friends and family members. In clinic, he became a sought-after last resort for unrelieved back and neck pain. As Dr. Maloney went into practice, he found that bodywork done over time with patient participation resulted in far better outcomes. In the process, patients released habitual responses that had troubled them for years.
Healing Your Back of Chronic Pain contains the research behind Dr. Maloney’s treatment of the back. It discusses the shortcomings of existing treatments and suggests combining treatments for better results. Dr. Maloney gives an overview of his map of the back, along with patient examples that worked. Then he gives advice on how to map your own back.
Ever a realist, Dr. Maloney ends his book with ten things patients should try before resorting to surgery. Short, researched, and direct, Healing Your Back of Chronic Pain combines classic common sense with cutting edge research. By the time patients finish Healing Your Back of Chronic Pain, they should know why their current treatments haven’t worked long-term, how to combine treatments, and at come away with at least one new idea for relieving their back pain.
Christopher Maloney
Dr. Christopher Maloney has spent his life trying to become the doctor he was unable to find when he was ill himself. His practice can be summed up by: when you get hit by a bus go see your M.D. When you just feel like you were, it is time to see me.
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Healing Your Back Of Chronic Pain - Christopher Maloney
Healing Your Back
Of Chronic Pain
Reversing Habitual Responses
Dr. Christopher Maloney, N.D.
Copyright © 2017
By Hygeian Publishing at Smashwords
All rights reserved.
DEDICATION
For all those patients who taught me about their pain. May you all be well and thank you.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
1 WHY THIS BOOK?
2 BORN TO PAIN
3 NOT GETTING BETTER ON ITS OWN
4 PHYSICAL TREATMENTS THAT WORK
5 IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND?
6 FROM MASSAGE TO REALIZATION
7 MAPPING THE BACK
8 MAPPING YOUR BACK
9 PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE
10 TEN CHEAP BACK HELPERS
EPILOGUE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ENDNOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I want to thank the tireless researchers who provide us with answers about our bodies. Thank you to Joe, my proofreader, business partner, and friend. Thank you to R, A, E, G, and my other patients who have read and commented on the book. I do listen and try to improve. To my family, my eternal thanks for bearing with me as I pour over medical texts. To my colleagues and teachers, you have taught me more than I can remember. And thank you, dear reader, for taking the time to care enough about your own back.
WARNING
This book is for informational purposes and is not intended as a substitute for the medical advice of physicians. The reader should consult a physician if they have any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention. Be wise and take care of yourselves!
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1 WHY THIS BOOK?
Congratulations on starting your journey away from chronic pain. Every journey begins with a single step, and you’ve taken that step by looking for this book and finding it. If you have chronic back pain, then this book is for you. It may help when nothing else has.
To be clear, nothing in this book replaces common sense. If you are in a car accident, please do not haul this book out of the crushed glove compartment and expect it to replace surgery. Get yourself patched up, and read this book only after your surgeons have stabilized your spine.
But if you’ve had multiple surgeries without success, then this book may be more helpful than one more surgery. Most surgeons know there is a decreasing return after initial surgeries, and will do additional surgeries reluctantly.
Many books on back pain focus entirely on exercise routines. So I assume you have access to those and may have tried some already. If you haven't, some of you may benefit from learning how to stretch the muscles of the back.
Instead of another physical treatment or set of exercises, we will talk in this book about habitual responses in the back. We will look at how habitual responses can trigger chronic muscle tension in the back, leading to pain. These responses may be to a physical cause, but they may also be generated by an emotional state or even by mental stress that leads to physical tension in the back. By helping you recognize these responses, we may completely resolve chronic back pain that has not been helped by other treatments.
We're talking specifically about back pain that has continued despite drugs and treatment, especially if you have more pain when you’re stressed. If you've read psychology books on letting go of stress, you may have tried to resolve your pain by telling yourself it is strictly mental. One famous back doctor has had some success with this mental model. But the mental model denies the reality that many pains worsened by stress also have physical triggers that are not under our conscious control. The conscious mind can work through the stresses you are aware of, releasing that tension. But unconscious, habitual stress may escape notice or be retriggered by movement, by familiar situations, or by simply having a similar emotional feeling.
For those of you who have doubts that anything will help your chronic back pain, let me tell you a story.
When she was young, Jane (not her real name) was in a terrible car accident. After mostly healing from the accident, Jane found herself still suffering with chronic back pain. It wasn’t quite bad enough for additional surgery, so she was sent out from the hospital with debilitating, agonizing pain. By the time she found me twenty years later, she’d been to every back specialist under the sun and had nothing to show for it except an addiction to painkillers.
The painkillers did help Jane with her pain, but they weren’t enough. She was on eight Oxycontin a day, the maximum her doctor would prescribe. Despite the drugs, she lived her life in a fog of pain. Before the accident, Jane had been thinking about college, maybe even becoming a doctor. But after the accident, she couldn’t focus. She had dropped out of college, married, and had children. So to the outside world she was coping with her pain. But every day she had to make a list of the things she was supposed to do, double check that she turned off the stove, and live in constant fear that she might forget to pick up one of her kids from school.
When I saw Jane, she was at the end of her rope. Conventional options had been exhausted long ago. She had heard about me from another patient, but was highly skeptical that anything we could do would help her. I looked at her lab reports, X-rays, and CT scan. Nothing in them showed any reason for her pain. Certainly nothing to justify a surgery.
So then I did something that most of her doctors had not done. I examined her back in detail with my hands.
Jane's whole back was a board, no flexibility anywhere. Imagine tensing your entire back, every muscle, and holding that tension all day and all night. That was her normal back tension. Of course that would hurt! Part of her pain was simply from muscle exhaustion.
As the back muscles tire, they switch from using