"How to Finally Get Real Relief from Back Pain .... Without Drugs or Equipment!"

"Read on to discover how Australian Clinical Research in Chronic Pain has proven to be the answer to the suffering of millions ...."

If you're one of the many millions of people who sought treatment for back pain in the last 12 months, the likelihood that you are now pain free is close to zero.

Why? Because the likelihood is that you've been offered drugs, "pain machines", osteopathy, chiropractic, hydrotherapy, relaxation therapy, or Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Maybe you've even tried surgery to cut a nerve branch which your doctor said was causing the problem?

And every single one of these approaches has proven to be ineffective for most people, as studies clearly show!  The evidence from research into the use of drugs, equipment, osteopathy, chiropractic, hydrotherapy, relaxation therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is damning ....  

And although you have every right to be angry that your money and your time has been wasted, and that your suffering has needlessly continued, the truth is that your pain team has not been trained to deliver methods that actually work!  Your pain team was most likely using methods that work for acute pain, completely misunderstanding the very different nature of chronic pain, as you'll read below!

A New and Better Understanding of Chronic Pain Makes the Solution for Back Pain Obvious!

Studies in chronic pain tell us 3 important facts about chronic pain, and these 3 facts point to the solution:

1    Actual physical injury has no bearing on the severity of the chronic pain.  For example, a person with severe disc degeneration may report no pain or disability whatsoever, whereas someone with no injury could report strong back pain and disability. Research shows that with chronic pain, there is no link between level of injury and amount of back pain reported.

2    Brain mapping shows that chronic back pain is indistinguishable from emotional pain! Chronic pain uses the same brain pathways as emotional pain from trauma, sadness, or anger.  This is not the case with acute pain, which uses very different nerve paths.  The proof is in the pictures!

3    Chronic back pain is constantly triggered in your nervous system in response to thoughts, feelings, sights and sounds.  This explains why different people have different triggers to their chronic pain and experience different "pain patterns".  These triggers could be alterations in temperature, feelings of stress, certain sights, sounds, smells, touches, and tastes, as well as beliefs the person may have about their back pain and the meaning of the back pain.

Obviously any real solution to chronic pain must involve identifying and eliminating the individual pain patterns of the sufferer.  It should also be clear that any other approach is merely wishful thinking.

The pain patterns that I describe above are known as "conditioned responses", and many therapists still believe that conditioned responses are difficult to deal with, which is why they don't even make the attempt! However they are a very long way out of date, as our clinical research has clearly shown!  

Indeed, we now know that these conditioned responses are very weak, and very easy to eliminate, provided we work with them in the right way.  We found that we were able to reduce or even eliminate chronic back pain almost immediately in the great majority of our patients.

To prove this we ran two separate clinical trials of the method with groups of people suffering from a wide array of non-malignant chronic pain, ranging from severe phantom pain, to nerve pain, to back pain, to arthritic pain, etc.  The result of these were an 85% success rate in the first trial, and a 100% success rate in the second (but smaller) trial. The published scientific paper is included in the book "The Pain Train:  Time to Get Off", which also details the successful chronic pain treatment method.

Since that time we have continued to work with chronic pain sufferers, both on-line and by telephone, in groups and one-on-one, always experiencing the same exciting results with reduction or elimination of chronic pain, no matter how severe or how long the person had suffered.

We call our method the BMSA (Brief, Multi-Sensory Activation) Chronic Pain Program.

How and Why This Successful Chronic Pain Treatment Works So Well

The simple and easy chronic pain treatment techniques which we use are based on the most up-to-date neurophysiological research, and are finally setting people like you free of terrible chronic pain disorders, no matter how severe, or how long you've suffered. In fact the longer you have had your chronic pain, according to our research, the more likely it is that you will be one of the majority of people who are helped by this approach.

This is because the longer you've experienced your back pain, the more likely it is to be genuine chronic pain, and not acute pain!  And our method is not for acute pain, but for chronic pain only. Acute back pain and chronic back pain must be treated very differently!

And this Chronic Pain Program works for the simple reason that it works with you as an individual to identify your specific pain patterns (which are unique to you) and successfully "breaks" those patterns so that they stop running.  They stop producing pain.

Here is an example of our BMSA Chronic Pain Program in action:

Mary's Pain Pattern

Mary was aged 48.  Her specific pain pattern:  severe neck pain whenever she experienced "cool". Examples:  pain when she felt a draught of cool air, pain in an air-conditioned room, pain in cold weather.

Method of treatment:  obtain list of patient's physical sensations around coldness, as well as thoughts and feelings around coldness and pain.  Have the patient focus quite precisely on each of these in turn, while going through the steps of BMSA, involving simple, easy, physical and mental tasks.

Outcome:  the pattern was permanently eliminated and cold no longer triggered pain. Mary had retrained her nervous system so that it no longer over-reacted to normal events.

Five Reasons To Be Confident That You, Too, Can Easily Reduce or Eliminate Your Back Pain 

Reason one - This chronic pain treatment program has been developed by a clinician With Over 30 Years' Experience, not a crackpot with no scientific evidence to back their wild claims.

The developer of the method, Christine Sutherland, is a world-renowned clinician and published researcher with over 30 years' clinical experience, who has successfully treated many thousands of individuals in many countries. 

Reason two - This particular chronic pain treatment program has been clinically tested in research trials.

Many so-called "cures" available today have not been scientifically tested. In contrast, the methods you'll learn here have been put through clinical trial in many countries, and are backed up by countless pieces of research in several scientific fields:  neuroscience, physiology and immunology.

Reason three - This chronic pain treatment program is both realistic and safe.

The program is realistic.  Although we would never claim to be able to help 100% of people, nevertheless we do know that it is successful for most people.  The program is safe.  There are no side effects because there are no drugs, and no equipment, so it can only help you, not harm you.

Reason four - The statistical evidence is highly impressive.

There is no other chronic pain program in the world that has been clinically tested to achieve results of 85-100%.  This excellent statistical record gives you every confidence that you, also, will get rid of your chronic pain.

Here is a summary of the benefits you'll receive

What specific kinds of results can you expect from your chronic pain treatment program?  Here are some typical case studies.

Case Study:  Male, 32 years of age, severe phantom pain: "Peter" was referred to us by his doctor.  He had become paraplegic 8 years earlier after a quad bike accident on a farm, and had suffered unbearable shooting pains down his back and into his hips and legs.  Various treatments had failed to make any difference to his chronic pain, even though the medications had left him spaced out and barely able to think. Peter was one of the lucky 50% of people who achieve outstanding results very quickly with the BMSA approach to chronic pain.  We first used BMSA to permanently interrupt the pain signals and this resulted in a very rapid decrease in his chronic pain, although not complete relief. Next we used BMSA to treat the trauma of his accident and his thoughts about his current predicament.  With this step, his pain completely disappeared and at 2-year followup had not returned.  Perhaps the best way to describe what happened for Peter is to say that his nervous system had got itself into a pattern of over-reaction (this is the case with most chronic pain).  What we did was to catch the pattern as it was occurring, and then interrupt it using the powerful multi-sensory approach of BMSA, resulting in the breakdown and elimination of the chronic pain signal and pattern.

Case Study: Female, 58 years of age, severe chronic back pain: "Beatrice" self referred to our program after years of struggling with chronic back pain that was associated with extreme disc degeneration.  Her doctor had told her that her only hope was spinal fusion surgery. She was on strong analgesic medication, and yet reported that her pain level was almost constantly "8 out of 10" - very high.  She was unable to hold her small grandchild, and had had to cut back on working hours as a corporate librarian, and was now faced with forced retirement solely due to her incapacitating chronic pain. Studies consistently show that deterioration of spinal vertebrae and discs is not correlated with reported pain, or with the levels of reported pain.  So we always feel very confident when presented with such a patient that the pain is being generated as true chronic pain. We worked with Beatrice to identify her chronic pain patterns and used BMSA to interrupt those. Some people think that this is what the TENS machine does, but in fact the TENS machine doesn't have any lasting effect, and we now know this is because it doesn't have any way of identifying the full range of chronic pain patterns, and does not interrupt in the right way.  The secret is that the interruption must be multi-sensory, and that many of the chronic pain patterns are not directly or obviously linked to the chronic pain. For instance one of Beatrice's "pain patterns" was her internal thoughts about how the damaged area of her spine "looked".  Of course she couldn't really see this but readily complied with our request to describe it "from the inside".  We had Beatrice talk about and picture this area as we used BMSA with her. This is just one example of the myriad possibilities of issues which are most definitely involved in the production of chronic pain. Beatrice's outcome was that she was able to decrease her chronic pain very significantly and no longer required surgery.  She stopped taking her analgesics and reported a pain level of 1-2, which she could easily tolerate after years of agony.  She was now able to lift her grandchild, and increased her working hours instead of the planned decrease. Could we have done more?  Perhaps, but Beatrice was very happy with what we had achieved together and wanted to stop her chronic pain treatment program and get on with her life.  And who could blame her for that when she now had so much to enjoy!

Case Study:  Female, 48 years of age, chronic pain from full-body rheumatoid arthritis: "Patricia" was a fascinating patient who self referred to us for smoking cessation treatment. However she was in such pain that she was finding it difficult to focus on the treatment and it seemed more practical for us to suggest that perhaps we could help her to be more physically comfortable before proceeding. In this case we didn't feel that we could have very much impact because Patricia's hips and knee joints were actually grating on one another.  She felt not only the pain, but the physical sensation of bones grinding.  Her chronic pain was so severe that she could walk only with the greatest difficulty, and in fact said that she was about to purchase a motor scooter because she simply found it so agonising to be mobile. We first identified the direct pain patterns relating to the hips and knees and were surprised to achieve an immediate 100% elimination of her chronic pain in those areas. Patricia got up and walked about the room with no difficulty but with some awkwardness. She explained that although there was absolutely no pain, she could still feel the bones grating. We didn't believe we could do anything about that but offered to try, which Patricia accepted.  So now we turned our attention to the direct sensory patterns associated with the grating sensation and were more than a little surprised when Patricia reported that this also had completely disappeared. Patricia was able to walk around the consultation room with total ease and no pain or discomfort whatsoever.  This was a very emotional moment for her of course. Patricia did not return for more treatment but we ran into her at a furniture exhibition several months later and were delighted to see her walking around, although with a slight hobble (Patricia was a very large woman).  On asking after her health and expressing delight that she was able to be mobile, Patricia denied that she had any lasting effect and claimed to be "right back at square one", again in full denial of the fact that she was doing something she had not been able to do previously. We learned a great deal from Patricia, with the primary lesson being that sometimes fast isn't good.  Patricia most certainly would have benefited from a far slower paced chronic pain management program or chronic pain treatment program, and is a good example of people who need more time to absorb and deal with improvement in smaller steps rather than the shock of huge change. We enjoy telling Patricia's story in order to share our own learning, and also as a teaching story for patients, to help them to identify ways in which they themselves might sabotage their success.  Being human, we're all capable of that.

Warning: Do NOT enrol in any Chronic Pain Treatment Program or Chronic Pain Management Program
unless it meets the following 6 criteria

There is an enormous amount of confusion, misinformation, misunderstanding, and even fraud, surrounding the field of chronic pain treatment, chronic pain management, and chronic pain relief. I want to give you 6 criteria or elements you absolutely, positively must have in order to assess treatment programs and remain safe while in a treatment program:

1: Must be delivered by qualified therapists. Many chronic pain programs and products are being offered today by people who have no qualifications and who have never even worked under supervision of a qualified clinician.

An unqualified therapist may have all the good intentions in the world, but does not have the full understanding of your chronic pain, will not recognise when there may be a more serious underlying medical condition, will not recognise when the safest thing to do is to refer you to someone else, and does not have access to experts in case of emergency.

2: Must be backed up by clinical trials. Many chronic pain books, treatment products and treatment programs try to convince you of their success by publishing testimonials.  Testimonial evidence is completely unreliable and in no way makes up for an absence of proper testing.  (You'll notice we do not give testimonials, but instead describe actual case studies, not as proof, but to indicate what you may expect.)

If a chronic pain program cannot refer to clinical trials which have been undertaken by qualified experts, you must assume that it has not been tested and has no evidence.

3: Must have the ability to work with your physician and other members of your qualified health team.  It's highly dangerous to work with individual therapists outside of the supervision of your doctor.  Your doctor is the person who has diagnosed your chronic pain, and who has the most informed and  "broad view" of what's happening for you.

Your doctor will not work with a charlatan, and rightfully so.  He or she will have seen the sad results of such work very many times.

4: Should not depend upon willpower. Up until recently all programs for chronic pain  depended upon discipline and sheer willpower to try to force yourself to think differently or stay calm in the face of unrelenting chronic pain.  Of course results have been very poor because chronic pain has nothing to do with willpower!

Rather, chronic pain is caused by the parts of the brain and nervous system that are not the least bit subject to willpower!

5: Should have a thorough understanding of the neurophysiology of chronic pain.  Without that, understanding of the problem is incomplete and of course the solution will not be satisfactory. 

As in point 4 above, if the chronic pain management program doesn't recognise the neurophysiological basis of chronic pain, and doesn't provide techniques to deal with this, then it has little chance of success.

6: Must remain accessible, not just sell a chronic pain product and abandon you.  There is no "magic bullet" answer to chronic pain because everyone's pain patterns are different and each case must be approached individually. 

So of course there is no point simply purchasing a product as if you could "do it by the numbers".  A reputable chronic pain treatment will provide on-going help so that you can acheive chronic pain relief according to your own unique circumstances.

How to Access Your Chronic Pain Program!

We understand that different people have different requirements, so in order to properly meet the needs of clients, we have 3 different treatment options available:

1    On-line group treatment program.  

This program includes your manual and provides up to 12 months' one-on-one support in an on-line group environment which is forum-based and closed to the general public.  The cost of this program is a one-off payment of $US67.

To join the on-line treatment program, click HERE.  You'll be taken to the payment page and will have almost instant access to the manual as well as instructions for registering on the client-only treatment forum.

2    Private consultation via telephone or Skype.  

This method delivers private, one-on-one treatment during a number of one-hour sessions. Clients initially commit to three sessions over three weeks, and then decide whether they will continue weekly, or on an as-needs basis, dependent upon their own particular condition.

The cost of this program is $US480 in advance for the initial three sessions.  If you decide to continue with further sessions, these are charged in advance at $AU160 per session.  The manual is included at no extra charge.

To commence this program please click HERE.  You'll be taken to the payment page and will have almost instant access to the manual, as well as instructions for setting your initial three appointments. 

3    Private face-to-face consultation.  

This method delivers private, one-on-one treatment face-to-face during a number of one-hour sessions.  Clients may attend the clinic, in Perth Western Australia, or in some cases we are able to travel.  

The cost is $AU160 per one-hour session.  (Fees for travel vary dependent upon distance, as well as travel and accommodation expenses.)

To book for face-to-face consultation, please email info@realhelpforchronicpain.com.

To your peace and happiness,

Christine Sutherland 

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