Old Bones
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I wasn't sure if I should post this in "Joke of the Day", or news. Here's the link to an article called "Is your mind at fault for your chronic back pain": http://www.thesangaiexpress.com/mind-fault-chronic-back-pain/
Replace the words "back pain" with "ME" and you'd think he was writing about us, which he actually did at one point. Here are my favourite comments:
"This column is a kind of new prescription to rid people the heebie-jeebies of one of the greatest disabilities and socially superfluous blob of chronic back pain." What???
"In Britain where I live with a population of 64 million and where people get paid for being off work (National Health Security Benefit) . . . While I was practising, it was very difficult to sign off anybody that he was pain free, based on the absence of physical signs. . . More men complained of back pain than women . . .Women as tougher housewives, were more mentally resolute and less weepy." Way to go, women (for a change)!
"There is a curious disease called Fibromyalgia [Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)], which is more psychological than physical. I've seen a score of them. There are no physical signs. Diagnosis depends on the narrative of the patient about unexplainable pain all over the body with extreme tiredness. They are mostly women, complaining of inability to bend to do household chores." Oops, spoke too soon about those pesky housewives.
"A study published in the British Medical Journal found that people with long term back pain showed fewer improvements after spinal fusion surgery than with "cognitive intervention" (psychological counselling) with targeted exercises. Long-standing back pain remains a cryptic genre where visceral and emotional reaction is the whole point. Here comes David Rogers (author of referenced book) with 20 years' experience and brainstorm ideas. He has done research and identified psychological and social factors including depression and anxiety that indicate how long the pain would last, and the disability would continue, though pain is nothing to do with physical factors. He believes thinking patterns affect back pain and there are different techniques that can help. His method is called "biopsychosocial". . . . Rogers is saying that chronic back pain is mostly in the mind."
"More importantly, patients are taught to identify their thinking patterns that could be making their pain worse. Many studies of the psychology of back pain shows that 'fear of moving' in case you'll cause damage and thus losing self-confidence, causing distress with anxiety and depression, is the usual 'thinking pattern' in people with persistent back pain."
Gee, I sure feel better educated now. Anyone wishing to respond can contact the writer at:
irengbammmsingh@gmail.com
But, after visiting the author's website, I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. www.drimsingh.co.uk
Replace the words "back pain" with "ME" and you'd think he was writing about us, which he actually did at one point. Here are my favourite comments:
"This column is a kind of new prescription to rid people the heebie-jeebies of one of the greatest disabilities and socially superfluous blob of chronic back pain." What???
"In Britain where I live with a population of 64 million and where people get paid for being off work (National Health Security Benefit) . . . While I was practising, it was very difficult to sign off anybody that he was pain free, based on the absence of physical signs. . . More men complained of back pain than women . . .Women as tougher housewives, were more mentally resolute and less weepy." Way to go, women (for a change)!
"There is a curious disease called Fibromyalgia [Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)], which is more psychological than physical. I've seen a score of them. There are no physical signs. Diagnosis depends on the narrative of the patient about unexplainable pain all over the body with extreme tiredness. They are mostly women, complaining of inability to bend to do household chores." Oops, spoke too soon about those pesky housewives.
"A study published in the British Medical Journal found that people with long term back pain showed fewer improvements after spinal fusion surgery than with "cognitive intervention" (psychological counselling) with targeted exercises. Long-standing back pain remains a cryptic genre where visceral and emotional reaction is the whole point. Here comes David Rogers (author of referenced book) with 20 years' experience and brainstorm ideas. He has done research and identified psychological and social factors including depression and anxiety that indicate how long the pain would last, and the disability would continue, though pain is nothing to do with physical factors. He believes thinking patterns affect back pain and there are different techniques that can help. His method is called "biopsychosocial". . . . Rogers is saying that chronic back pain is mostly in the mind."
"More importantly, patients are taught to identify their thinking patterns that could be making their pain worse. Many studies of the psychology of back pain shows that 'fear of moving' in case you'll cause damage and thus losing self-confidence, causing distress with anxiety and depression, is the usual 'thinking pattern' in people with persistent back pain."
Gee, I sure feel better educated now. Anyone wishing to respond can contact the writer at:
irengbammmsingh@gmail.com
But, after visiting the author's website, I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. www.drimsingh.co.uk
Always good when the clueless out themselves.
