Cognitive Behavorial Therapy
Friday December 26, 2008
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a short term therapy in which you can learn coping skills. It has an excellent track record for people with chronic low back pain. In cognitive behavioral therapy, your therapist is there to help you confront and change the irrational thoughts that stop you from adapting yourself to your pain. In other words, you are not addressing the pain directly. Instead, you are learning ways to reframe the way you think about the pain. This may help you destress, which could possibly help with the pain. CBT is most effective when it is one component of your pain management plan. If you choose to try this type of counseling, it’s best to locate a licensed mental health professional, rather than a lay person.
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What I think needs more focus is treating the problems that can cause your pain. The root cause of pain in the back, spine, etc. is the compression of the discs of the spine and the nerves that get affected as a result of this causing all kinda of spinal ailments and problems. I have had back surgery on my lower back and although my herniated disc was repaired I still suffered from painful sciatica and stiffness. Not until I tried inversion therapy or hanging upside down with the help of gravity boots or by use of an inversion table did my muscles begin to stretch out, my spine became decompressed and my whole back and core muscles began to start feeling better. I did tons of research. Inversion therapy has really changed my life for the better and I want the whole world to know!!! Thanks, Cole F.
Hi Anne
CBT is commonly used in the UK for sufferers of chronic pain and in particulr whiplash victims.
Most long term sufferers develop a psychogenic injury that results in increased levels in the perception of pain and a heightened state of anxiety when faced with the onset of pain.
Increasingly, as personal injury lawyers in the UK, we are finding that physicians are recommending advice from CBT specialists as one way to combat chronic pain when all other forms of treatment have failed.
We have experienced many successful outcomes using this treatment but as you state clearly - you must seek appropriate advice from the right experts.
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