Chronic Back Pain

Here is a patient whose complaint is that of chronic pain in the low back, and chronic pelvic pain, some of which is associated with bladder emptying at night.

 

She has been treated with medication for the purpose of stopping pain with voiding, by affecting the muscle at the neck of the bladder. This proves unsuccessful. Additionally she has had an ultrasound and CT scan of the abdomen. None of these have provided a reason for her pain.

 

Because of the failure in diagnosis and treatment from a western medical perspective, we decide to investigate other approaches. We talk about chronic pain in terms of the approach of western medicine. Pain is seen, generally as arising from a particular place in the body, associated with a particular physical cause. Pain, however, is actually a perception within consciousness associated with a particular signal from the nervous system. This idea can be used to explain the fact that some women have taught themselves to experience an orgasm, while undergoing the process of childbirth.

 

Pain is a perception that is associated with a perceptual need to change the activity associated with the pain. It serves as a warning for the organism, about the present activity. This is the message of pain. Western medicine seeks to obliterate the sensation of pain. Consequently, when patients arrive with pain, they are assessed by ascertaining the level of intensity, and attempts are made to obliterate this level of intensity. This is usually in the form of anti-inflammatories or narcotics.

 

Information about the cause of pain and the activity that it is related to, which bears changing, can be extracted from consciousness. In terms of Quantum Mechanics, since consciousness is experiencing an event, pain is a feedback about the event. It is much the same as pleasure is also a feedback to consciousness about an event. To some extent, the perspective with which to see the event can be chosen. Again the evidence for this is the patient who chooses to have an orgasm with childbirth. The act of meditating on the pain, by placing the awareness into the pain is one way of extracting information, which we may perceive as intuitive. See the example the Knee I.

 

After this discussion she is examined and information obtained. While sitting she is observed and, here, noted to be asymmetric. Her entire right side shows a tendency for increased muscle tone. She reports that a nurse practitioner has told her that one leg is longer than the other. She has tenderness in the muscles of the back, adjacent to her spine on the right, while she is resting. While they are contracted, the muscles of her back have tenderness on both sides. But, those on her right side have more tenderness. Not surprisingly the rectus abdominus muscles in the front attaching to the pubic bone are also tender. Tenderness on the right is also greater than on the left.

 

She is told that while she rests, there is an unbalance in her muscular tone. She has more nervous tone on the right side than she does on the left. Her body’s further adaptation to this produces more pain. This asymmetric way in which her body is held, through the asymmetric nervous output, reflects the way her consciousness is interacting. This represents an asymmetric interaction from her consciousness. This is because, as her consciousness perceives that she is being treated within her environment, she responds by holding her body in a way reactive to that. That is to say, if she perceives threat then she holds her body in a way to be ready to respond to the threat.

 

Therefore, looking at this through the Quantum Mechanics framework, there is something asymmetric about the way her consciousness is approaching reality. From this framework the body’s expression is a result of the input from consciousness. This can be likened to the way in which input into software, determines the output of the hardware, the computer. This pain would be better assessed by entering into the meditative space and gleaning information from her consciousness. It can be seen that the benefits here from a psychiatric approach, may well have nothing to do with inappropriate psychology, but rather from the ability to tap directly into consciousness.

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