Frankly, I’m frustrated.

There’s a disturbing trend in the way many doctors are treating back pain that’s frustrating me…and it’s frustrating my patients as well.

You wait for weeks to get in to see a specialist, and you’re hoping you’ll find the solution to your pain. The specialist - usually in a 10 - 15 minute appointment - looks at your X-rays, MRI, CT scan or whatever, and gives you their opinion about what’s causing your back pain based on what he or she sees on your imaging tests.

Then the specialist tells you about your treatment options…Are you a surgical candidate? Maybe some injections would help. Do you need more PT? How about changing your medications?

All of these things may or may not help heal your back pain. But they’re more likely NOT to heal your back pain, because they’re limited by the fact that your doctor is treating your imaging tests, and not you.

When you go in for your appointment, does your doctor really look at you? I mean really look at YOU?

Most of my patients return from a visit to their specialist disappointed and disillusioned. Why? Because, they tell me, the doctor barely looked at them. He or she looked at the imaging tests - the MRI, X-ray or CT scans. Many of them tell me that the doctor never even touched them. Never asked to look at their movements. Never looked at them in a variety of positions.

Never looked at them.

Spine specialists are not trained postural and movement experts. Most of them don’t have a significant base of knowledge about Pilates, acupuncture, nutrition, Yoga, meditation — many of which have been proven to offer back pain relief. They’re not trained in offering you all the options you have when it comes to healing your back pain. Their tool-kit consists mostly of surgery, medication, spine injections.

Mark Twain said: “To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. Well, your spine specialist has been trained to look at your spine from a certain perspective, but not from ALL perspectives - they’re trained to use the “drugs or surgery” hammer to treat back pain. And that’s fine…

…but there are alternatives.

Does the specialist know how you handle stress? Do they know the level of muscle tension you maintain around your spine? What you eat? How you exercise? How you sit or stand at work? How you think and what you believe about your back? How well you can control your pelvis in all positions?

All of these factors have a big influence on your back pain.

And the great thing is that you are in control of all these things. To learn a simple exercise you can practice for training your pelvic mobility, click here, and scroll to the “Back relief basics” box.

More than 50% of back surgeries fail…because you are not just an MRI. You’re a living, breathing, body, mind & spirit. And your back pain is influenced by many factors, not just the stuff you can see on an MRI. And while it’s important to rule out life-threatening or other catastrophic causes of your back pain, the drugs and surgery hammer isn’t the only option you have when it comes to relieving back pain.

The MASTER System has everything you need to heal your back pain - naturally.

Filed under: back pain, healing back pain by lindyroyer