Cognitive Therapy Helps Ease Back Pain
People with chronic lower back pain can reap as much benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy as they do from physical therapy, a new Dutch study suggests.
Low back pain sufferers reported improvements in function and levels of pain whether they …
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I wonder if Doctor Rob Smeets has sustained a disabling back injury? That would be the (only) way that he could tell (for sure) if his study is acurate.
The results of this study are ludicrous.
The lower back or lumbar region is identified as L1 – L5. The mental/emotional causes for lower back pain have been thoroughly documented through the ages, beginning with ancient Chinese medicine. Louise Hay in her book, “You Can Heal Your Body,” identifies the mental cause and the metaphysical ways to heal the root cause.
Root cause for lower back pain:
L-1: A crying for love and a need to be lonely. Insecurity.
L-2: Stuck in childhood pain. See no way out.
L-3: Sexual abuse. Guilt. Self-hatred.
L-4: Rejection of sexuality. Financial insecurity. Fear of career. Feeling powerless.
L-5: Insecurity. Difficulty in communicating. Anger. Inability to accept pleasure.
Sacrum: Loss of power. Old stubborn anger.
Coccyx: Out of balance with yourself. Holding on. Blame of self. Sitting on old pain.
It’s worth checking out.
Interesting that those doing both CT and exercise showed no better improvement than those doing either. Is the stimulation and repetition of the exercise program having a impact similar to CT on attitudes and behaviors?
As a physical therapist I have found the key to be a combination of both cognitive therapy and non-tradition physical therapy. Therapy has to be specific to the person’s problem (asymmetries, muscle and fascia problems, etc). We also have tried EFT for back pain. Personally I think that the brain is just as much at fault as the muscles and “things” we see on an MRI. In fact it would be more diagnostic to use a F-MRI on the brain, then it would be with a regular MRI of the spinal column.
Definitely back pain can be treated with acupuncture. As a practitioner I’ve seen excellent progress in diverse patients.