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Dear Mr. Connor, I called your office yesterday and talked to your receptionist. I have the recent diagnosis of cervical spondylosis. I have tried everything- the most recent being spinal injections- which last only short term.I am a very active forty-something and this neck pain started about 11 or 12 years ago when I was body building and lifting fairly heavy weights. Obviously, I had to give this up. Now even lifting light weights for toning causes pain. My problem is in the area C5,C6 with narrowing of the foramen.I was also told the fluid in those discs are gone. I had right shoulder pain with this but that has disappeared since I received the injections. I guess I wanted to know if your book addresses this problem or more precisely, can your methods help this type of condition. In case there is a problem with this message,my e-mail address is (deleted for confidentiality) Thanks for your time. Sincerely, Penny H

Dear Ms.. H:
You may have spondylosis on your X-Ray, but your description of the pain in the neck is classic for disc disease caused by a piece of normally centralized disc material that was pushed out posteriorily and creates a fulcrum effect pain. All of this is described for free on my website. I would suggest that you read through the PHYSICAL REALITY section and the SELF-DIAGNOSIS section. You have apparently exhausted the relief offered by the routinely available medical arts and it would appear that you are either going to get relief from your own devices or not achieve it. Fourty-something is too young to look forward to a life of pain. It is my impression that your condition is ideal for my method; the longer you wait, the longer the spine remodels with the disc out and the arthritis (spondlyosis) that you have continues to eat away at the bones. You see, when a disc is "out," it induces inflammation. This inflammation is destructive to the bone. The cortico-steriods used reduced the inflammation temporarily, but the source of the inflammation, the piece of disc material, has not been addressed. It is not risk free and there is no guarantee that my method will work, but it worked on me when I was in my fourties and I am now, relatively pain-free for 4 years. It took me a year to do it, because it takes practice and knowledge, which for me came at my own expense. If you want to expend the time and effort, all the information is there for $15. If you want to jump to the head of the class, come for a visit. I can't promise you relief, but I will say that I will do my best. You can call my staff and ask them how many people leave with relief they have seen. You can read the testimonials in my website--they are all legitimate.
William T. O'Connor, M.D.
----- Original Message -----
From: penny H
To: woconnor@inreach.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:27 AM
Subject: Neck pain questions



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01/01/05

Dr. Oconnor,

I downloaded and read most of your book. I have been suffering buttock
and leg pain for almost 3 months. Your story spoke to me as if my own
diary. Just reading your book made me feel better. Then doing the
hip-hang reduced pain 50%. If only I had found your site 3 months ago.

I have numbness in toes, pain in ankles, pinching and pain in posterior
right buttock, no pain near the vertebrae. My doctor was very
ineffectual saying, "it'll be gone in 3 months." Well that didn't
happen. Physical Therapy and even Acupuncture made it worse. I had an
X-ray which revealed nothing. I had to switch doctors to get an MRI
prescribed but that won't be until Friday. I am continuing the
hip-hangs at least 3 times a day although I'm getting a little sore. I
must admit there is some increased pain down the leg while doing the hip
hang and rolling with pain side up. I guess this is normal when moving
damaged material around. Anyway I will keep you posted.

BTW: Your web site is not quite as exciting as your information. It
would be an immense help to have the entire book in one PDF. Usually
people who come to your site are in pain and in my case could not sit or
stand for very long. I kept at it because I was desperate for help.
Please make it easier for our fellow back pain sufferers. I don't think
you will miss out on any revenues if you do it this way. Even if your
pdf is copied and sent worldwide, your reputation will spread much more
rapidly and positively, the world will then truly beat a path to your door.

Thankfully Yours and have a great, painfree New Year,

Dennis O (name withheld for confidentiality)
San Jose, CA

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From: Karen Michelle Price
To: woconnor@inreach.com
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 1:48 PM
Subject: Spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis - will maneuvers help?


Dr. O'Connor,

I have been diagnosed with L5-S G.I. spondylolisthesis, L5 Spondylolysis, and Spinal Stenosis with L5 nerve root irritation.

Do you think your maneuvers might help me, or have I got too much going on here?

Many thanks,
Karen Price
Vancouver, Canada

Ms. Price:
Probably not. It may, but I think if the spondylotic component is the source of your pain it will require a fusion operation to resolve.
You can try it, though if you go very slowly and gently.
It's a $15.00 gamble. If you can learn to re-position the vertebrae and keep them in place using my technique, you may benefit. I personally think that a minor component of most people with end-stage degenerative discs have a spondylosisthesis-type slippage of one vertebrae on another. That can be helped by my technique, but it requires an ongoing adjustment process in which you constantly are monitoring your position and realigning the vertebrae. The problem is that there is no support structure between the anterior components and posterior components of the vertebral column. However, if that were the only issue, one would think that those persons born with the spondylosis would have back pain their entire lives. This is not the case. It usually comes later in life. It is reasonable to assume that the pain actually comes from disc trauma that is less tolerated in the presence of spondylosis. I think the component of pain that is disc-specific could be somewhat relieved with my method. You would have to try and see. I can't represent that to people because I don't have the data to support it. As for disc-related pain in the absence of a spondylotic component, I can certify my method is the best.
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William T. O'Connor, M.D.
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Dear Gary:
Well, if they have any media down there that might be interested in your experience in a human interest type story, do your fellow South Africans a favor by contacting them. If I got some media coverage of my website, I might be able to keep it operating. Otherwise, I will just slowly exhaust my assets as the advertising costs are taking all of my monies available for upkeep of the site (which is actually quite expensive).
I'm glad you got relief, but your example is not unique. The overwhelming majority of people with back pain get relief--believe it or not. My method is the best means of managing pain of spinal origin. If it were incorporated into the medical management systems of developed countries, billions of dollars would be saved and an incredible amount of pain resolved.
William T. O'Connor, M.D.
----- Original Message -----
From: gazza
To: woconnor@inreach.com
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 12:45 AM
Subject: Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You

Hi Doc

My name is Gary & I live in Cape Town South Africa

You have Helped me so much - THANK YOU

I have been doing Pilates for about 2 years & my back was not improving

Eventually I couldn’t walk with a shooting pain down my leg

SO i go to a chiropractor who fixes me in a flash (moves the pain back to my back - centarlizing - so that i can walk again - but now my back is VERY sore) - ice and voltarens and all that & after 3 weeks i go back to a VERY qualified instructor who starts working with me and promises to sort me out ....

THEN i gradually start getting better (he is very gentle) & i then at one session I do 1 "roll up" movement and BAM my back is sore again and i start panicking - Chiro - Ice - Voltarens - MRI - Surgeon - Surgery - HHHHHEEEELLLLLPPPPPPPPPPP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What can i do ????

SO i started surfing the WEB and i started reading and reading and reading every bit of info that i could find .....

THEN A MIRACLE OCCURED - i found your website and i am cured ....

I have read every word that you have written in your webbook and am improving every day - thank you

I even signed up my 2 instructors james123 and nina123 and I have them reading as well - maybe they can adapt their exercise routines to incorporate their valuable muscle strengthening stuff without doing any of the bad weight bearing flexion routines - DO YOU THINK THAT IS ADVISEABLE ???

I am telling everyone i know about your website - even my sister in Houston (who recently had a back op)

Have a good weekend

Gary

Dear Gary:
Well, if they have any media down there that might be interested in your experience in a human interest type story, do your fellow South Africans a favor by contacting them. If I got some media coverage of my website, I might be able to keep it operating. Otherwise, I will just slowly exhaust my assets as the advertising costs are taking all of my monies available for upkeep of the site (which is actually quite expensive).
I'm glad you got relief, but your example is not unique. The overwhelming majority of people with back pain get relief--believe it or not. My method is the best means of managing pain of spinal origin. If it were incorporated into the medical management systems of developed countries, billions of dollars would be saved and an incredible amount of pain resolved.
William T. O'Connor, M.D.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Syed Faisal
To: woconnor@inreach.com
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 6:46 AM
Subject: Hi


Hi,
is there a money back offer on ur schemes if the book is not helpful to me.
Also will i get the videos with the book and if not then with which offe are videos given.

Thanks!
Syed Faisal

Mr. Faisal:
$29.95 is the price of a children's book or a dinner out on the town. If you don't want to risk such a major sum of money, go out and pay a doctor who doesn't know the first thing about back pain 10 times that amount to get nothing more than a prescription for pain meds or physical therapy that only hurts you more most of the time. He will probably also reassure you that most people's pain goes away spontaneously after 6 weeks. What they don't tell you is that it will come back, over and over again for the rest of your life until you figure out how to stop it.

Evidently, you missed the point in seeing the immense amount of information I gave away for free just so the reader could establish in their minds that I have studied the subject and know what I am talking about. Everything within reason was given for free to assure that the reader has the highest probability of benefit. Do you actually think that I would have expended all that effort and expense for a "scheme?" All the testimonials are true. If that isn't enough, then, you are free to stay in pain the rest of your life.

The videos are viewed over the internet when you buy the subscription. As for giving out copies of the videos--I can't see letting anyone have copies so that they can reproduce them and sell them in some other format. I have no other copies of the actual book left, but you are free to go to Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0966499115/qid=1096550519/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-4582732-8656852?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

where you will find the original book (without the videos) on sale for as much as $200. That is what some people will pay for the information once they have seen it. The website has more information than the book. There are no refunds because the degree of benefit depends upon the readers participation and effort. If a person doesn't get benefit, it most likely is because they just thought they would get an instant, magic, fix without taking the time or investing the effort to understand it. I have demonstrated to my satisfaction, the satisfaction of countless others who are pain free, and the satisfaction of the law that this method is legitimate and effective. If that isn't enough for you, you will just have to go somewhere else. If you find any other source of information that tells you more about the nature of the pain, how to diagnose it, and a more reasonable or rational explanation of its source--please send me the web address so that I can read it to make sure they didn't steal the ideas from me.

William T. O'Connor, Jr. M.D.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Mathews
To: William T. O'Connor
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 6:27 AM
Subject: Re: purchase book

Dr. O'Connor,

I can't tell you how excited I was in finding your Website. I am a Physical Therapist at a large hospital in Long Beach, CA. and I work with many Ortho patients daily, many of them acute care patients coming out of surgeries with fusions etc. Additionally I have been, in the last few years, changing my own stretching and exercise prograom to correspond to your ideas of, NEVER DOING ANY STRETCH OR EXERCISE without first putting my back into a comfortably extended TRACTION. You can see now why I was very much at home studing your technique. I also underwent, some twenty years ago, a L4-L5 herniated disk surgery and subsequently was set upon a life long journey of self learning and self care (what I really love about your technique!). I will take your advise and pay the very reasonable 29.95. Thanks so much again.

Patrick Mathews
562 8602148

Mr. Matthews:
Good to hear from you. I'm gratified that you comprehend the contribution to back pain that I have made. You will find that there is no better mechanical solution than that which I have defined and perfected. I wish I had copies available for you and people like you. Too bad you didn't have the information before your surgery; however, better late than never. You have to be careful iwth your back because where they went through the intervertebral ligament is weakened and scarred. With my techinque, if it works in you, your back can be expected to re-model in the less painful configuration rather than further degenerate into a fusion.
For even post fusion patients, my method protects the discs adjacent to the fusions (which takes on all the mechanical stress of the fused joint). So, The O'Connor Technique serves as an excellent rehabilitation tool for post surgical people because it prevents the further pain generated as the adjacent discs degenerate. Most people have more than one disc level damaged by the forces that caused the disc(s) that they had to have fused. Those levels can appear normal on NMRI, but none the less be sources of unremitting pain.
You will discover that my method makes the most sense and gets the best results because it is so highly effective. You will start getting amazing results unheard of by any other technique. You should see what I can do for people, I am literally a miracle worker. People who have been to other practitioners without relief and in pain for years, walk in to my office crippled with back pain yet leave normal. It has become routine for me. I suspect that if you practice my method on yourself, you will stay out of pain and functional a lot longer than otherwise. You will find no better method of getting out of acute pain. In my literatue, I have tried to cover every contingency that arose in the 20 years I have been studying the bio-mechanics of the disc. Be certain to download the PRINCIPLES Section and refer to it often. Keep me posted on your progress or if you don't understand anything. If you run into any patients who need to get out of pain and can make the trip up here to Vacaville, CA (midway between San Franciso and Sacramento) I can relieve the pain and restore the range of motion in the majoritiy of patients a majority of the time. I can do the same thing with torticollis and what I have defined as "compensatory scoliosis." I have also defined an alternative explanation for the pain and lost range of motion that comes from "Whiplash" and have proved the superiority of my version by instantly relieving most of the patients' pain and restoring their range of motion; however, it is not without its risks.
If you can arrange a group of chronic pain sufferers who want relief, I can come down there and teach a class. I have so many "tricks up my sleeve" that they couldn' t all be put in the book or the website. I'll teach you the method for free if you can get me some media coverage or a celebrity with back or neck pain who wants to avoid surgery. If someone has the assets to pay for the service, I will fly down and fix them. I am so confident by my experience that I can genuinely state that there is no better practitioner for relieving pain of spinal origin in the world.
If you had this information 20 years ago, you would probably have been able to avoid surgery (unless you had a traumatic extrusion). You can trust that all the TESTIMONIALS are legitimate and if you know what other therapeutic modalities are out there, you will see that my method eclipses them all.
Forgive me for sounding egocentric, but what I have done is discovered a means to reconcile the William's (flexion exercises) with McKenzie's (extension exercises) and have perfected the technique of replacing displaced disc material. No one before me has explained the paradoxical finding that some people are helped by predominately flexion and others by the very opposite strategy--extension; yet they have the same condition. If you take the time to read the preliminary introduction in the first Section of my webbook, I explain this discovery. Once one understands my technique, a whole new perspective is achieved in the understanding of the pain's origins. This technique is light years ahead of any other therapeutic modality.
If you find me some patients who can afford to bring me down there, I will demonstrate how I do it. I'd love to get on Opra's show. See what you can do, and you will benefit by it immensely if you acquire this new skill. It most certainly can be practiced by physical therapists because many times, I don't even have to "lay hands" on people to take them out of pain. Beleive it or not, there is nothing more important in the advancement of your career than to understand, practice, and apply what I have discovered.
William T. O'Connor, M.D.

 

"William T. O'Connor" <woconnor@inreach.com> wrote:
Dear Mr. Mathews:
It might be quite a while before I can finish the next edition of the book,
and I am out of copies now .
I have to make some artistic changes to make it more acceptable to the
book-buying public, give it a new cover, and clarify some details. Instead,
I have been focusing on getting
the website more functional with video and redesign. I have put the
reprinting
on the back burner and there haven't been enough orders for the book to
motivate me to go through another printing of even the old edition. Also,
printing costs have escalated such that until I get enough books to warrant
a large order, I can't tie up the thousands of dollars it would cost to make
the new edition profitable. So, I
would encourage you to rely on the website for awhile for any information.
The same information (and more) is all
there, not the least of which are videos that demonstrate the techniques.
In that a video gives so much informa! tion, it appears the most optimal means
of getting the information across with the hard copies available through
downloads.
Rather than holding out for the book, I would recommend using the
website, watching the videos, downloading the particular maneuvers (with the
easy reference guide) that are pertinent to your pain problem area(s), as
well as the PRINICPLES Chapter for future reference.
To my understanding, this information is nowhere else available in any form.
You can go to Amazon.com for used copies, I see them there frequently;
however they get pricey. I have seen it sell for as much as $210. The last copy I saw sold was for $145. Copies
went a couple of months back for about $80 each. For the latest price used
go to:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0966499115/qid=1096550519/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-4582732-8656852?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

If you are in significant pain, money is not such an object, and you seem to
have a disc problem (as defined by the DIAGNOSING YOUR OWN DISC link
algorithm) that you
think I can help, you might just consider a trip out here. Even though that
may seem like throwing money towards a risky proposition because it may not
be successful, it is certainly better than resorting to surgery that may be unnecessary or living with the pain and the prospect of worsening. At the very least, you will determine if surgery is your only reasonable
option and if you are like the majority of people I treat, your bad back will get markedly better.! . In one session, I
will provide you a private lesson on the technique with a guided maneuver to
determine if your disc material can be recentralized with the optimal
technique use administered by myself. The majority of people I have treated
in this manner leave with nearly pain-free results and full range of motion
restored. If your back problem doesn't respond, and you understand and
practice the technique properly and still are without success-then surgery
is the only likely solution. I will also give you my opinion upon what would
be the most optimal surgical solution. A week doesn't go by that I don't
solve someone's back pain problem. If you want to query me about whether your spinal pain is likely to be amenable to my technique, send me a description of the problem and I won't let you come all this way if I don't think I can help you.

During August/September of 2004, a twenty-three year old girl with a high
lumbar disc who wor! ked for a doctor was told that she had a kidney problem.
Within 45 minutes of my time, she was out of pain and had her range of
motion restored. Also there was a girl with a thoracic disc referred to me
by a pain management doctor who specialized in physical medicine and rehabilitation
that couldn't be
helped by the routine, standard, physical therapy regimens or chiropractors. She was better in 2 weeks (it took two visits one week apart, however when a person comes to me from a long distance, I spend as much time as necessary to either put their disc in or determine that my method cannot resolve their problem ). Then
there was this big guy who couldn't stand up straight due to a lumbar disc.
I saved his vacation and his future (he
didn't know it but he could have stayed in that pain for years.) Two weeks
ago I fixed a woman who's back was painful for 9 years since the birth of
her daughter. She walked out pain free. Took me about an hour! to do it, and
two manipulations; but she is now empowered to manage her own back (because
I teach the basics of the technique and the method of self-manipulation as
the primary component of the visit) and is
doing just fine ever since.

I frankly don't have enough time to acquire all of the testimonials of
people I took out of pain. The representative testimonials that are on the
website are all genuine and legitimate. You can call 707-446-0422 and ask
my staff, they will tell you frankly what I can do because they have watched
me fixing
others. The really unique curiosity about my experience is that I see people
all the time that I have taken out of pain over the years and they
non-chalantly say that they don't have a problem anymore. Then, I see others
who, around the same time period, had pain but never came to me and they
relate being in pain for years. More often than not, as I teach them the
technique, I ! am able to put their
discs in and they go on about their business. The interesting thing is that
had they come to me back then, they would have spared themselves years of
pain and disability .
My method and my existence is not widely known. My website is very
insignificantly advertised. Frankly, most people probably don't believe I
can do what I say I can do. Well, they just have to learn to live with their
pain, I guess. However, I am always running into people I know I could have
fixed years ago but they never knew about me or my method. So, they suffered
needlessly.

The thing that they don't know is how long they can actually stay in pain if
the mechanical problem is not revealed to them and the solution is not
given. People really don't know that such a change in fate is available for
so little money comparatively speaking.
As an addenda, you should know that
the longer your disc stays out, the longer the inflammatory changes are
damaging your spinal bones. If your spine re-models, as it does over years,
it can remodel with the disc out and then it will be permanent. Sorry, but
that is the way it works.

In order to keep my office open, I have to charge about $300 per hour. Comparatively speaking, the
last two times I took my car into the shop I left with bills around $450.00. One
was to change a water pump and the other was to fix the air conditioner
(which they didn't even fix). I can say that I have never charged a patient
more than $450.00 to fix their backs. So, if I fix a back, and take a person
out of pain, and teach them how to avoid pain for the rest of their lives, I
am paid about what a couple hours of a mechanic's time is worth.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any less than that compensation reasonable. I shouldbe charging much more.

In closing, just wanted to tell you that waiting for the book probably isn't
the best option you have. You have to make the best decision you can. One
cannot help but be impressed by the amazing amount of clinical effort and
actual work that I put into that book and website (I wrote it all myself, right down to the illustrations), and it speaks to my knowledge of
the subject matter. I have never seen any other physician or practitioner produce
equivalent proof that they know as much as I do about treating back pain.
You have to decide whether the risk is worth taking and if the chance of
solving your pain problem is of sufficient necessity to cash in some of the
monetary credits you have accumulated. If you do not want to spend alot of your money on yourself, the website has most of all the answers, but it takes much more time and
effort on your part to learn it. Nevertheless, many other people have been
successful an! d there is no reason why you can't be for $15.00. There are
very few people who can't afford that-they just have to invest the time and
effort to study it and practice it. Alternatively, they can come out to Vacaville, California (midway between Sacramento and San Francisco) and let me give them my best effort.

Best of Luck,

William T. O'Connor, M.D.

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Mathews
To: woconnor@inreach.com
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 7:31 AM
Subject: purchase book


I wish to purchase your back book, send info or backorder for me

Patrick Mathews
9441 Via Amorita
Downey, CA 90241

562 8692148

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Dr O'Connor,

Thank you for helphing me with my neck pain. I can now reverse my car much easily without much difficulty. The pain if any is very slight and dullish and it seems to be improving each day.

Thank you again, your help was totally unexpected.
Masami Aito

----- Original Message -----
From: William T. O'Connor
To: Masami Aito
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: The O'Connor Technique


Mr. Aito:
Two weeks ago I had an identical patient who woke with a similar inability to look over one shoulder. I never laid a hand on him, I just directed him in the proper maneuver on my exam table and he got up without the pain.
If you didn't have trauma as the source, the probability is very high that you simply have a piece of disc material that went out of place and with some effort, you can get it back in so long as you go gently and don't use any force.
Most likely, the reason why you have the pain is because your circumduction is stopped by the piece of disc material. Look on the website under the heading Diagnosing your disc and there is a technique for proving that is the source of the problem. The intermittancy says that the piece is mobile. When it is out, it hurts, when in it doesnt.. It most certainly would be worth your while to spend the time learning the techique.
William T. O'Connor, M.D.
----- Original Message -----
From: Masami Aito
To: woconnor@inreach.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 1:36 PM
Subject: The O'Connor Technique


Dr O'Connor:

About 5 years ago, my neck xray had shown that I have degerative cervical disc. Occasionally, I do have some light to moderate pain, especially when I have to turn my neck to look back while attempting to reverse my car.

I am now 73 with a minor case of diabetes and a near painless osteo arthrities in my fingers. Otherwise, I am in good health and visits my doctor (internist) every four months for a regular checkup.

Would you be kind enough to tell me if the O'Connor Technique can help my neck before I order the book?

Thank you,
Masami Aito

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I am a long-sufferer of back pain! In my long quest for pain relief, it is the first time I have found someone who has made it so clear to me that my problem is disc related and what I should do about it. I have done lots of sports in my youth and have hurt my spine several times. Over the years I have gradually reduced the activities that hurt, but have continued walking(which does not hurt), and doing sets of strengthening and stretching exercises, which now I understand have damaged my back more than improved it.

I am a woman who will be soon completing 64 years. I have read through all the sections of your Webook and I have the confidence that with help of the spinal pain relief maneuvers, I still have a chance to improve my back. I would like to purchase a membership subscription, but I live in India, how I do make the payment? I have relatives living in the U.S. Is it possible that I request them to pay the subscription on my behalf? I will be extremely grateful if I could be advised as to how I can go about it.

Thanking you in advance.

Yours sincerely

U.M.Patel


----- Original Message -----
From: Gthayera@aol.com
To: woconnor@inreach.com
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: Sorry to be a pest. THANK YOU SO MUCH


I have been able to get in now. I have tried the maneuvers for the neck and have obtained relief. I will continue and feel confident that all is well. Your explanations are excellent, and I appreciate the depth to which you have obviously gone to explain how to do what is needed.

Thank you doctor. I want to honor my end of this, and must make certain you receive payment. I do not know if the card was accepted. Even if it was, I insist on making sure you receive payment. Let me know where I might send a check and I will do so ASAP.

I will refer as many as I know suffering from back problems to your location. Thank you for being there and willing to help.

In the future if you need futher testimonials, kindly let me know. I can see this is the direction I needed.

In gratitude
Jeffrey

 

Jeff:
I can always use a good testimonial describing how long you have suffered, the practitioners who were ineffective, how much money was spent on other medical modalities, the actual simplicity of the technique, how rapidly the relief was recognized, and the genuinely uniqueness of the offering in the context of your experience. You might add that I spent alot of time to insure that you got access and wasn't just neglected, after all $15 isn't really realistic compensation for the actual effort I expended.
If you really want to show your gratitude, send the information to a local media (newspaper letter to the editor, TV station, radio talk show that you listen to, etc.) I'm in real danger of not being able to keep the site up very long because the advertising costs are so high and the return is so low. Every day you recall how much pain you were in and how it was taken away should motivate you to try to help others. At least that's the sort of mindset that motivates me.
Nevertheless, I am actually happy to hear your results; however, for me that is a very common occurrence. The lucky people who learn about me or happen to be my patients find out how simple the technique is at removing their pain bu t really don't appreciate how long they would have suffered or how they most probably would have gotten worse because the rest of the medical world is absent such a simple device. And, without some better exposure to my method, they will undoubtedly remain suffering.
You have just experienced a very unique phenomenon. Some might even consider it "miraculous" --in that people literally crippled by pain have it instantly relieved. In essence, by viewing, reading and applying the information I created and contained in MAKING YOUR BAD BACK BETTER, you have learned how to alleviate pain and have been made better by the website's influence alone. It would not be too grandiose nor incorrect to assert that what has happened to you is historically unique.
Not too long ago, the prospect of such an accomplishment would have bordered on the fantastic, and, in a sense, been relegated to the IMPOSSIBLE or MAGICAL because someone in another part of the world, never seeing you or touching you, took away your pain simply with the transference of images.
If examined to the limits of man's understanding of the physical universe, the electromagnetic energy that constitutes my being has changed the electromagnetic constituency of this planet (and perhaps the universe) through solely an electromagnetic energy transference vehicle (computers and the internet) such that human pain is being eliminated at a distance without physical contact. There are people alive today that, if you had claimed years ago that they could someday sit at a machine without moving parts and take away pain that had never been relieved by any other means at a site thousands of miles away--they would have called it science fiction. Our present sophistication makes that scenario less amazing a feat; yet if you think about it from a different perspective, there are centuries of people before you who were denied that pain relief, not to mention a countless number alive today who might never experience that relief.
You are one of the first to experience a cybermolecular surgery of sorts in that I sent my intellect out into cyberspace, met with your consciousness, and stopped your pain at a distance without physically contacting you–a feat that no other human has or could have successfully done before. As a direct result of my actions, your physical structure was beneficially altered . If you adhere to my principles, your physical structure will continue to remodel over time and what would have been an inexorable degenerative process that leads to disability, depression, and unremitting pain probably has been largely prevented. That is amazing if you actually take the effort to think about what really happened. I performed an act that has never been accomplished in the history of mankind. You, incidently, are one of the living proofs of its reality. What was done was no small feat; and it took me years to formulate the understandings, assemble the tools, and put them to use. It is on par with other great scientific discoveries and achievements like the cure for leprosy, TB, etc. in its capacity for relieving suffering; however, it is very much unrecognized. Only someone who has suffered, as you have and witnessed the relief, can ever hope to understand the equivalency.
William T. O'Connor, M.D.

----- Original Message -----

From: "Matthew Herber" <mherber@nwhealth.edu>
To: <woconnor@inreach.com>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 9:50 PM
Subject: QUESTION


> Dr O'Connor-
>
> As an MD, do you really think that you have the knowledge and
> understanding of spinal bio-mechanics so much to ethically "teach" the
> public through your writings how to take care of their spine? That is
> dogma and until you obtain a DC degree or go to any continuing ed
> dealing with motion palpation of the spine or spinal biomechanics can
> you even write such non-sence, what do you think you are doing- As far
> as testimonials... of course people are going to feel better- they are
> self adjusting (which is very, very, very BAD- Hypermobility at the
> WRONG segments) Yes, people may feel better, but are they focusing on
> the root of the problem? AND can YOU actually teach a patient to
> "manipulate their own herniated disc". This is the most absurd thing I
> have ever heard- my word! Please do not downgrade our profession by
> stating these falsehoods. DC's promote optimal health by facilitating
> neurological and biomechanical integrity of the spine- this is not to
> be put "in the wrong hands" so please think about the people you are
> interfering with and stop thinking $$$... Read some articles on
> Dysafferentation and how chiropractors actually influence the nervous
> system... Thanks Matt

Matt:
I'm a little fatigued by constantly confronting your Chiropractors' delusional thinking. Yes, people can manipulate their own spines, its not that difficult. They don't need to schlep up to some quack everytime they need relief. It is actually pretty simple and the testimonials attest to that. It isn't $$$ that motivates me, it is pain. I'm not going to let so many people suffer when they don't have to . On a daily basis now, I am seeing people who I have released from the agony of back pain and sent on their way empowered to prevent their own pain..
Live with it, the proverbial "cat is out of the bag;" but don't you or your buddies worry, the word of my method is getting spread so slowly that your careers are safe for your lifetimes. The fact of the matter is I am so honest that I won't refrain from making the perceived to be outrageous claims that I can alleviate the pain and restore the range of motion in torticollis, cure certain forms of scoliosis, and immediately stop the majority of spinal pain in a majority of people. Those claims are too fantastic for the standard medical community to accept as fact, so they don't believe me and are disinterested in confirming my method through scientific study. You believe me, though, because that's why you are writing to try to convince me to stop.
Rest assured, most people are too lazy to invest the time or too cheap to buy the information it takes to learn to fix their own problem. I suspect that the world will be stuck with chiropractors for the forseeable future.
William T. O'Connor, M.D.


 

 

 

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