These sections contain a wealth of proprietary
information not available elsewhere, to the author's knowledge.
Therefore, in order to access these topics, the reader
must become a member by purchasing a subscription or send
for a copy of the book: MAKING
YOUR BAD BACK BETTER, by William T. O'Connor, M.D..
If you review the above list and recognize that one or
more of these topics pertain to you and you have back
pain, you would be well advised to acquire that specific
information from this source since you are unlikely able
to acquire it elsewhere.
The full text of these subjects is only
available to members when they
purchase
a membership or purchase
the book.
As an example of the quality of contents,
please see the IN
PAIN NOW? side-bar selection, it largely
reproduces the above annotated ACUTE
PAIN MANAGEMENT STRATEGY Section's instructions
for an acutely painful episode. It is provided for free
as a service to browsers in pain to both give relief and
reassure them that the information that they obtain through
this author is of functional and realistic value. Quite
frankly, there are insights available here that are not
available anywhere else in the literature. Presented
as a good Samaritian gesture, the reader with acute, current,
confusing, and debilitating pain of recent onset is encouraged
to follow the recommendations given and in the process
will be better able to decide if the pain being experienced
meets the criteria most likely to be appropriate for use
of The O'Connor Technique (tm).
The section on PREGNANCY
AND DELIVERY is invaluable for anyone who anticipates
pregnancy with a history of back pain or if one wishes
to prevent the back pain complications of back pain. The
author believes that a majority of the 67% of women who
have back pain with delivery could have their pain revented
by applying the PRINCIPLES
of The O'Connor Technique (tm). This is extremely
pertinent for the 37% of women studied who still have
the pain 6 weeks after delivery and the 7% who still have
pain as much as a year and a half later. This becomes
relevant when one considers that as much as a third of
women with back pain associated with delivery describe
it as exceeding the pain of labor and delivery.
An extraordinary amount of people find that
they get their back pain while travelling. TRAVELING
WITH A BAD BACK recognizes this phenomenon
and gives the reader concrete methods to prevent having
their vacations ruined by back pain, neck pain or backache.
DEPRESSION
usually accompanies any long-standing back pain, backache,
or neck pain. This Section addresses this problem from
the perspective of a physician author who has witnessed
and treated the fear, debilitation, and depression of
an illness that seemingly has no solution.
Often, now-a-days,
there is a trend by other physicians who have exhausted
their therapeutic abilities and are unaware of The
O'Connor Technique (tm) to "put the cart before
the horse" by attributing the continued pain of a
spinal condition to a psychological inadequacy. They reason
that, because back pain is so common and most people get
over it within a short time period, those that don't get
better must have a psychological problem that is preventing
them from getting better. This is usually attributed to
depression. The following excerpt from a May 20, 2001
treatise on back pain in the physican's journal, Pateint
Care, exemplifies this phenomenon and directs the
physician in the management by attributing the problem
to the patient's failing in an ability to cope.
"Most people
visit a physician for low back pain not just because their
back hurts, but also because their ability to cope with
the pain is compromised. Try saying, "I know your
back is hurting. Lets's talk about why you're having trouble
dealing with it."
By practicing this approach, the physician
presupposes that that some condition, most often depression,
is preventing the patient from getting over the pain.
These physicians fail to recognize that it is the pain
that created the depression or the inability to cope in
the first place. This author's experience finds such
a strategy offensive. The physician would do better
to admit his/her inadequacy in managing the pain rather
than shift the blame to the patient; nevertheless, depression
plays a significant role in back pain and needs to be
addressed. Fortunately, this webbook gives a solution
to the pain problem and pays genuine attention to the
reality of depression resulting from chronic spinal pain.
The section on LUMBAR
SUPPORTS offers insight into the most successful
support device identified in the author's experience.
There are numerous products available, but most of them
for one reason or another don't work as well as the one
described in this section.
Too, SPORTS
play a dramatic role in back pain, backache, and neck
pain. This section demonstrates how applying The O'Connor
Technique (tm) PRINCIPLES
to specific sports can make these sports less painful
and gives the reader a perspective on the role sports
play in the creation of back pain and, thereby, its prevention.
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For instance, the section on PREGNANCY
AND DELIVERY is extremely valuable for
any pregnant woman who wishes to avoid back pain for the
rest of her life because the people who are participating
in her delivery are not educated in the principles of
The O'Connor Technique (tm). Two thirds of women undergoing
labor report the presence of back pain, and a third of
women have continuous, severe, low back pain exceeding
that of the contraction pains! As much as 37% still
have pain four to six weeks after delivery and 7%
still have pain a full year and a half after delivery!
These figures lead one to the inescapable conclusion that
the pregnancy and delivery process is traumatic to the
spine. The author believes that the bulk of this pain
can be prevented with knowledge and practice of The
O'Connor Technique (tm) PRINCIPLES.
The sad reality is that
it is unlikely that the caregivers assisting in the delivery
will become educated to these understandings within the
near future enough for a difference to be made in the
outcome. If you can imagine the value of a year and a
half of pain, you might consider gifting a subscription
or a copy of the book to someone you know or love who
is pregant. Expecially if they have a history of low back
pain.
