Millions of people worldwide suffer from chronic back pain, often not knowing if it will ever improve. Physicians Brenda Lau and Ted Findlay say successful treatment requires both education and rehabilitation.
Millions of people worldwide suffer from chronic back pain, often not knowing if it will ever improve. Physicians Brenda Lau andTed Findlay say successful treatment requires both education and rehabilitation. Millions of people around the world suffer from chronic back pain everyday, often not knowing if they'll ever recover. Pain specialist Dr. Brenda Lau offers advice on how you can manage chronic back pain, as well as some of the newer treatment options that can offer relief.
The persistent discomfort associated with chronic back pain affects men and women relatively equally, with most people experiencing chronic back pain between the ages of 25 and 55. Instead, Lau says, medical images done on people with back pain can look a lot like images of people without. "There's an inflammatory soup, if you will," Lau said. "All types of host defences call into action when injury of any tissue occurs."Dr. Ted Findlay is a pain physician with the Calgary Chronic Pain Centre.
"Pain reprocessing therapy is all about utilizing a combination of active ways of thinking that is going to inspire you to move the body, to eat well, to reduce the fears around the pain itself," Lau said.
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