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Positive thinking can be a big help with back pain

Positive thinking can be a big help with back pain

All most anyone who suffers from chronic pain knows very well that pain is a depressant; it’s not an incentive to “rise and shine”.  When we are in pain it is difficult to concentrate on anything else, much less to enjoy going to work, [...]

The Alexander Technique trials

The Alexander Technique lessons have recently shown through a new major clinical trial done in the UK, to be beneficial to people with back pain. The trial consisted of people who all had chronic back pain and the pain level was measured on the Roland Morris scale which indicates the activities one can do based [...]

Mental therapy for back pain

New research has shown that, potentially, mental therapy is just as effective as physical exercise in reducing back pain, a possible welcome relief for chronic back pain sufferers.

The Daily Mail online reports that a researcher at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, Rob Smeets and his colleagues studied 223 chronic back pain sufferers and [...]

Mental exercises help back pain sufferers

According to a new study just out, back pain can be controlled through mental exercises, which is great news for the suffering. The study of more than 200 chronic sufferers of back aches discovered the benefits of mental control. In fact, mental exercise could be a replacement to physical therapy, according to the Daily Mail.

The [...]

People feel the amount of back pain they expect

Pain catastrophizing, which is basically the patient’s expectation of pain, is an influencing element of actual pain, according to recent studies.  Patients with pain catastrophizing condition and patients without were studied in an attempt to determine how the anticipation and negative expectations of pain might influence the actual pain itself.

Interestingly, the study concluded that patients [...]