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Dealing with back pain
I noticed you wrote about dealing with back pain a few weeks ago. Aside from using homeopathy, what else did you do to get back on your feet?
Having worked so long in this field, I know how hard it is to find a good practitioner but I was fortunate enough to get an appointment with a local (to me) cranial sacral osteopath who I am still working with to get back on my feet. I can now walk, six weeks later, but coping with that pain has taken its toll on my posture and flexibility.
Her name is Tracy Lomax and she has recently taken over Nature’s Pulse in Marlow, Buckinghamshire (01628 477707). If you live elsewhere, you can contact The General Osteopathic Council (0207 357 6655) to get a referral to a cranial-sacral osteopath in your region or visit www.osteopathy.org.uk for more information on this treatment.
The other technique you should not rule out on the road to full recovery is hypnotherapy. According to Charles Montagu, co-founder of The Health Partnership, an integrated clinic in London (0207 589 6414), and the first-ever trained hypnotherapist to have been funded by the NHS, pain is always an expression of emotional trauma of some kind and hypnotherapy is the fastest route to access that often sub-conscious memory, deal with its legacy and move on.
In a recent article on the subject, he quotes the physician who is often described as the “father” of psychosomatic medicine, Sir William Osler, who said at the beginning of the last century: “The hurt that does not find its expression through tears may cause other organs to weep”.
This whole experience has given me a much better understanding of how debilitating it is to be living with chronic pain and how depression must be almost inevitable for those whose discomfort continues for more than a few weeks; not only back sufferers but those with exhausting disorders such as chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia, making it crucial to get to the real root cause of the underlying problem.