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“Sensitization can complicate any chronic pain problem, and as my career lengthens I find myself writing about it more and more: all painful roads seem to lead to this topic.”

If you get back pain, and someone tries to beam rays through you prematurely, just say, “Thanks, but no thanks. The American Pain Society says it isn’t necessary unless I can’t feel my legs.”

“Medical guidelines “strongly” discourage the use of MRI and X-ray in diagnosing low back pain, because they produce so many false alarms”

“If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That’s why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful.”

“Orthopedic surgeons (especially American ones) profit handsomely from the most complex low back surgeries (especially spinal fusion), so they are strongly inclined to think of back pain as a mechanical problem in need of physical repair”

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”

“the day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

Consider the imagery you’ve developed around your diagnosis, and how this could be contributing to your pain

“Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.”

A 2014 study compared treatments for chronic whiplash patients. 20 sessions of physiotherapy peformed the same as 30 mins of reading on understanding how the pain system worked!