How A Nearly-Forgotten Eighty Year-Old Technique Can Erase Chronic Pain And Fibromyalgia
If You Suffer From Chronic Pain or Fibromyalgia, You Will Learn About a Method for Treating Your Problem That
- has been used successfully for over 80 years
- has relieved pain for thousands
- has been proven effective by clinical research (see references 1 & 2)
I have been treating people with difficult pain problems for more than thirty years. Early in my career I mastered a unique method to treat pain – and the results have been fantastic.
But before I tell you more about this special method, let’s talk about the reason this method is so important --to help you with fibromyalgia or chronic pain.
People with Fibromyalgia or Chronic Pain are Some of the Most Tragically Unhappy People I’ve Known.
No one, even for a day, should have to go through what fibromyalgia sufferers experience day after day after day for months and years.
Fibromyalgia sufferers live with a level of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual pain and exhaustion that seems unbearable to those of us on the “outside,” who have been lucky enough never to have been afflicted by fibromyalgia or its sister conditions: chronic pain syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, and the like.
And What Makes It Even Worse....
If you have chronic pain you are all-too-familiar with the “secondary effects” of your condition – those due to misguided (or misinformed) medical interventions:
- Built-up frustration and anger due to medical misunderstanding.
- The side effects of medications.
- Gnawing depression when nothing you try seems to work.
Fibromyalgia patients suffer from Rodney Dangerfield Syndrome – you don’t get no respect. Doctors don’t know what to do with you. They run a bunch of tests, but nothing useful shows up. They prescribe some drugs, which might help up to a point, but which don’t fundamentally alter the pain state. Sadly, many doctors just give up.
This State of Affairs is Entirely Unacceptable to Me
I refuse to accept that there exists a human being on planet earth who cannot be helped. In some respects, this is a naïve point of view. But I don’t care.
Throughout my career I’ve been committed to learning all I can about fibromyalgia and chronic pain, in order to offer the best treatments. I want to make my own personal dent in the mountain of pain and suffering that these conditions represent.
Your Unique Web of Symptoms
Fibromyalgia, chronic pain syndrome, and their sister disorders cause dozens of symptoms that show up in thousands of unique combinations. No wonder doctors have had such a hard time coming to an understanding of fibromyalgia!
What is your unique experience? What does chronic pain or fibromyalgia feel like to you?
- Achy pain that seems like it’s taking over every square in of your body?
- Fogginess enveloping your brain so that you can’t think straight?
- Having to marshal your energy every hour of the day, forcing yourself just to get out of bed, go to work, or accomplish the simplest task that other people take for granted?
- Discomfort, cramping, or sluggish behavior of your digestive tract, so that you no longer enjoy a tasty meal, nor can you get any nutritional value from it since your body can’t digest food properly?
- Lying in bed without sleeping, feeling even worse with each passing hour?
- Running endlessly from doctor to doctor?
- Wild mood swings?
- Strained relationships?
- Worry about the amount of pain medication you’re taking? Fear of medication side effects? Worry that you might run out of a prescription at the wrong time? Or that some pill you’re taking might stop working?
- Frustration that doctors don’t understand you, or think it’s “all in your head”?
A Thousand Theories, A Thousand Remedies
Attitudes, opinions, and theories about fibromyalgia abound in the medical world.
Some doctors don’t accept “fibromyalgia” as a concept at all. They think it’s a bogus diagnosis for people who are depressed and just like to whine and complain.
Other popular ideas link fibromyalgia to disturbed sleep. Or hormone imbalances. Or to build-up of toxic chemicals in the body. Some doctors think fibromyalgia relates to loss of integrity of the lining of the digestive tract. To spinal joint misalignments sapping the vital power of the nervous system. To environmental allergies.
I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I don’t have a new, genius theory that explains fibromyalgia or chronic pain. All of these ideas (and many others) have some merit.
I Don’t Have A New Theory About The Cause Of Fibromyalgia, But I Do Have A New Way Of Doing Something To Help You
Actually, it’s not a new way. It’s a newly re-discovered, almost forgotten, 80-year-old way: NeuroTactile™ Therapy.
- It was originally developed in Germany and is still widely used there.
- It’s gentle – it feels relaxing and invigorating at the same time.
- There are no drugs or surgery – it’s safe.
- It erases pain signals and changes the way they’re processed in the brain.
NeuroTactile™ Therapy Starts With Our Scientific Knowledge Of How The Nervous System Operates And Turns It Into A Workable System Of Treatment
Your nerves are the source of everything you know about the world. This includes everything you know about the world outside: what you see, hear, and smell. And it also includes everything you know about the world inside: everything going on under your skin.
You don’t usually pay much attention to what goes on inside your body. Until it hurts. Then the nerve signals from inside your body start getting most of the attention. If it gets bad enough, it can seem that pain is the only thing you can pay attention to.
Every square inch of your body is chock full of millions of nerve endings. If you are in pain, it’s because these nerves are screaming that you’re in pain. NeuroTactile Therapy™ will give those nerve endings a new message – something invigorating, calming, rejuvenating, relieving – to completely change your pain experience.
NeuroTactile Therapy™ uses a special finger-tip stroke over the low back, spine, and throughout the body. The stroke wakes up those nerve endings like crazy. Pain relief follows close behind.
When you first experience NeuroTactile Therapy™ you’ll immediately feel that it’s like nothing else. Like my other patients who used to have severe pain, you’ll soon experience how great you feel after a NeuroTactile Therapy™ treatment. And how a treatment program can help you toward a life free of pain.
How Come No One Has Ever Heard Of This?
Why isn’t this method better known? Why am I one of only a very few practitioners to use it?
I have no idea.
It makes no sense. It’s true that it takes a little extra time to perform NeuroTactile Therapy™ as compared to other treatment methods; maybe most doctors can’t be bothered. Most of the written material on it is in German; that makes it harder to learn. And of course, it takes a long time to master.
Even so, NeuroTactile Therapy™ is so effective, and is so widely applicable, it should be in constant use in every pain clinic, chiropractic office, rehab center, hospital department, etc.
I know this method can help a lot more people with fibromyalgia and chronic pain if only they knew about it! NeuroTactile Therapy™ can help me make that dent in the mountain of pain and suffering that I dream about making.
What Makes NeuroTactile™ Therapy So Special?
-It’s gentle, but creates a distinct, powerful stimulation of the nerve endings.
-It changes the pain input going into the brain. Your brain is overwhelmed with pain information – let’s put a stop to it!
-It changes the way the brain processes pain. Fibromyalgia sufferers need this most of all. You’re so indoctrinated with pain messages, your brain needs an entirely new way to think.
-It can change the blood flow to your skin and muscles. (Are you one of the many fibromyalgia sufferers with cold hands and feet? Wake up extra stiff in the morning? Want to do something about it?)
-It can even change the level of hormones circulating in your body. These unbalanced hormones are responsible for many of the otherwise unexplainable side-effects of fibromyalgia.
-The results are great! If your condition fulfills the basic criteria, it’s likely to work for you!
“Doctor, This Sounds Too Good To Be True. How Can Your Method Make A Dent In My Fibromyalgia? I Have One Of The Worst Cases!! And I’ve Tried Everything Else Already!!”
If you are like most of my patients, you’ve already tried a whole slew of other treatments. You’ve probably gotten some partial or temporary relief now and then throughout the months and years you’ve struggled with your problem.
What I do is combine NeuroTactile Therapy™ with other, proven, ALL-NATURAL methods, to create the ULTIMATE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ASSAULT on your fibromyalgia and chronic pain.
Based on the results of your examination, if it appears that these methods can help you, I will recommend a treatment plan to address as many pain-producing factors as possible. When needed, I work with some of the top practitioners in the area to make sure you’re getting all the added benefits of these complementary, all-natural methods.
NeuroTactile Therapy™ will be a key piece of the overall puzzle, the missing link that finally, once and for all, gets you solidly on the road to long-lasting recovery.
These treatments, working together, offer the best hope for chronic pain and fibromyalgia sufferers. I assure you, no matter how severe your pain, I’ve worked successfully with patients like you (or even worse).
Here Is The Most Important Part: You!!
All of these methods are effective for one reason only: they enhance the inner strength of your body, mind, and spirit.
If you suffer from fibromyalgia, your fuel tank is just about on empty. It will take time to refill it. But I have confidence in you. You are going to invest the time, money, energy, and self-love you need in order to move forward toward a healthier future. And with the help of a comprehensive program like the one outlined above, you will succeed!
The Time Has Finally Come To Stop
Stop..... living with pain
Stop..... feeling hopeless, frustrated, angry, or depressed
Stop..... taking increasing dosages of medication
Stop..... wondering what the best treatment for your pain is
NeuroTactile™ Therapy
The Eighty Year Old Treatment Of The Future
The Year Is 1929
A physical therapist in Germany has such a serious circulation problem in her leg that she is scheduled for an amputation. She is lying sleepless in her hospital bed the night before her surgery.
She begins idly stroking the skin of the low back and pelvis with the tip of her finger. The skin is very taut and almost feels numb. As she works, she notices slight sensation returning to the skin of her low back. Soon the leg itself becomes a little warmer and life starts to flow back into it.
The next morning the surgeon notices a healthier pink glow in the limb that was slated for amputation. They decide to postpone surgery.
Over the next few days she continues working on her back, and proceeds to treat the skin of the leg too. She has totally reversed her condition and saved her leg!!
She develops and expands her technique, trying it out on a variety of patients, sharing it with colleagues, adapting it for a range of conditions, and, along with neurologists and other physicians, developing a scientific understanding of the way it works. She calls her technique “Bindegewebsmassage” or “Reflexive Therapy of the Connective Tissues.”
The German name for the technique has the word “massage” embedded in it, but it is no ordinary “massage”. It is a sophisticated nerve reflex technique that erases pain signals and changes the way they are processed in the brain. It can change the way the internal organs function, too, and enhance the healing of any injury.
Within a few years Bindegewebsmassage is being used in German hospitals for a variety of conditions:
- circulation problems,
- orthopedic injuries,
- headaches,
- digestive tract disturbances,
- chronic pain, and
- “muscular rheumatism” (That was the term for fibromyalgia back then.)
Fast Forward To 1978
In 1978 I was a student at New York Chiropractic College. To pay my tuition, I worked painting apartments in New York City. (I wasn’t that great of a housepainter – but that’s another story.)
One of my customers was an elderly German doctor. He knew I was a chiropractic student. When I finished his apartment, he said to me, “You should learn to do bindegewebsmassage. It’s a great technique they use in Germany. Patients will flock to your office.”
I said, “Thank you very much. That will be $245.” I gave the matter no more thought.
As luck would have it, later that year I heard about a training course being taught by a German physical therapist in a special technique I couldn’t even pronounce. It turned out to be the same method the doctor had told me about.
Over a period of a few months, the instructor taught us the basics. I read all the textbooks about it. (They’re now out of print.) I researched the neurological basis for the technique, and studied all the clinical research that’s been done.
I was eager to put my knowledge to use, and began using the technique while still a chiropractic intern. I was encouraged by the results and continued to refine my approach. It has become a cornerstone of my practice ever since.
Over the thirty years I’ve used this method the results have been great. I rely on it more than any other technique. (I no longer call it bindegewebsmassage. I made up my own name for it – NeuroTactile™ Therapy.)
What You’ll Experience
NeuroTactile Therapy™ uses a special finger-tip stroke over the low back, spine, and throughout the body. The stroke wakes up the nerve endings in the skin. Oftentimes, you’ll feel a sense of scratching or cutting — like I forgot to cut my fingernails or something.
But the scratchy, nerve-stimulating feeling means that the technique is working just the way it should.
When the nerves are stimulated, pain signals are erased. And the pain pathways in the brain are altered too. Whatever pain signals continue to get through, the brain has a new way to interpret them.
When you first experience NeuroTactile Therapy™ you’ll immediately feel that it’s like nothing else. Like my other patients who used to have severe pain, you’ll soon experience how great you feel after a NeuroTactile Therapy™ treatment. And how a treatment program can help you toward a healthier, pain-free life.
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References:
- Brattberg, Gunilla, Connective tissue massage in the treatment of fibromyalgia, European Journal of Pain (1999) 3: 235-245.
- Frazer, FW, Persistent post-sympathetic pain treated by connective tissue massage, Physiotherapy 1978 64(7): 211-212.