[lit-ideas] Re: Kyphoplasty?
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 02:33:56 +0000
Monday, February 14, 2005, 12:58:48 AM, Andy Amago wrote:
AA> Not only is it known, it's old news. Exact sites I can't supply at the mom=
AA> ent. It's all part of the mind-body connection. What originates in the mi=
AA> nd is manifested in the body.
The mind-body connection is also part of a complex feedback mechanism.
Also while certainly stress can exacerbate my back pain - but not all stress
does
-- luckily for me, even ordinary X-rays now show a spinal abnormality,
so I don't get fobbed off with "it's stress". A *renowned*
orthopaedic surgeon did though say (at a prior stage, when ordinary
X-rays showed nothing) that it was "psychological" (ignoring the case
history) and that prevented my GP from referring me for physio.. When
I moved cities, his opinion didn't matter; I do get physio now.
=AA> y in fact was not performed. Relaxation techniques are proven to reduce
ch=
AA> ronic pain. The University of Massachusetts Hospital has a whole departmen=
AA> t on this. Newsweek ran a cover story on it not too long ago. Old news, a=
AA> s I say, at least since the 80's.
How do you define chronic pain? As "non-acute"? as "long-term"? or
as pain whose known physical cause had been removed?
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