Acute pain is the result of injury to the body. Traditional medicine can often alleviate the pain by assisting the body heal itself. However, sometimes the pain persists long after the physical healing has ended. Chronic pain is pain that goes on longer than six months. By this time it no longer responds to conventional medical treatment. In other words, chronic pain is pain that may not go away. Doctors are at a loss to provide a solid diagnosis or even a real explanation to a person who is suffering. The pain is real, but conventional medicine cannot locate a cause. Often, people are told that they must learn to live with it.
I have had many clients who have been injured and end up in disabling pain. Sometimes they wind up having multiple surgeries in an attempt to stop the pain. Unfortunately, this does not always work and sometimes even leave the person in a worse spot. By the time my clients find me they have often been referred to many many specialists.
Over the years, I have put together an alternative approach that has helped many of my clients reduce, or even eliminate their chronic pain. The core of this approach is based on the work of John Sarno, MD. His book, The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain, details how nonconscious issues directly affect pain. I combine neurofeedback, homework assignments, the Alpha-Stim, hypnosis, cognitive-behavioral strategies, and neutraceuticals. This intense protocol has been very effective for many of my clients.
As a side benefit, a person's emotional state often begins to improve. My clients begin to reduce their hopelessness, confusion, uncertainty, guilt, anger, and lack of assertiveness that has plagued them for a long time. |
