Is Arthritis, Back Pain, Fibromyalgia or Rheumatism making your life miserable?
Over 9 million Britons suffer with Arthritis in one form or another and according to a BUPA report 8 out of 10 adults are forced to endure back pain at some point in their lives.
I often meet people whose pain I cannot even begin to understand. Constantly nagging at their body, eating away any joy that they might have in life. I have had clients confess more than once, “I just want to die”.
But they still have so much to give, and I know what they really mean is “If only I could do something to reduce the pain or even take it away.
Many people are taking so many tablets they would rattle if they could move. And as much as we long for the little relief the painkillers give us we know that every drug has its side effects.
I know one man who had to shuffle down the stairs on his bottom every morning because of the pain of osteoarthritis. Now he walks down the stairs.
I met another man in Bridlington whose garden had beautiful stone steps leading down to the beach, each day he would struggle down slowly with the help of a rail but he had to crawl on his hands and knees to get back up to the house. After a half hour treatment he walked up the without pain for the first time in several years. He now enjoys the treatment daily and has a relatively pain free life.
I meet people every day who just two or three years ago were walking in the park, feeding the ducks with their grandchildren, or wandering round the shopping centre enjoying some relaxing retail therapy.
When I ask them about the prospects over the next 2 to 5 years they are often in despair. We are called in to offer hope and on many occasions, better than eight out of ten in fact… we have been able to help increase mobility and relieve or even eradicate the pain.
Fibromyalgia is a condition that causes chronic pain at 18 points all over the body. Its mainly though not exclusively ladies that suffer and around2% of the population is affected. Age is not a factor but the pain can be so intense it inevitably leads to chronic fatigue and other conditions that destroy quality of life.
Prof J C Jongbloed and his colleague, Doctor R Soerjanto of the Academisch Zekenhuis, in the Netherlands worked with nearly 60 sufferers and found “in around 95% of those treated the pain at the treated place is eliminated practically or completely.
Dr Soerjanto concluded his medical study report with these words…
“To my knowledge there is at present no alternative whether physical, chemical or whatever other area, which produces better results in terms of better management and functionality improvement.”
