Why do you think there are so many instances of treatment-resistant chronic back pain? Why do so few people find a true cure for their pain, rather than just symptomatic relief? Any guesses?
Of course, it is impossible to cure a pain condition if you are not treating the actual cause of the problem. Treatments, drugs and surgeries will not help a back pain condition that is caused by a psychological process. This is the reason why so many patients never find real relief from their suffering. It is so sad, but so true. This fact is one of the main reasons for the back pain epidemic.
The incidence of pain surrounding a spinal abnormality or other bodily irregularity is not coincidental. Dr. John Sarno writes about this often in his books, stating that the mind recognizes the unusual structural condition and often will place pain in proximity in order to convince us of a purely structural model for pain.
This is clever, but if you correlate many symptoms to the expected diagnoses, there will often be a selection of criteria which will not match. In these cases, the structural issue can often definitively be ruled out as the true source of symptoms. This takes a skill that many doctors no longer care much about or concentrate much upon: Proper diagnostic technique.
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