BACK PAIN AND SCIATICA

The commonest problem that we saw in the clinic is low back pain, with or without pain radiating into the leg. 
The most important part of our treatment for this condition over the past 30 years has been ‘no needle’ electroacupuncture, which often proves to be the answer even in patients with longstanding pain.  You can experience the same benefits with our at home treatment.
With our treatment you will tap into the body's own healing mechanisms and pathways. By careful selection of points and areas on the body we can stimulate anti-inflammatory pathways, boost pain-relieving substances such as endorphins and produce changes in other chemical signalling systems such as dopamine pathways which lead to change and even remodelling in the brain itself. 
Many patients with back pain will have been told that they have a ‘slipped disc’ which is causing their pain, and many of them will have the Xray or MRI scan which seems to prove it. 
So a question that is frequently asked is “How is this treatment going to help me when my MRI scan shows that I have a slipped disc?  Surely the only treatment is surgery?” 
In fact, there is ample evidence that there is no correlation between findings on MRI scans and the presence or absence of back pain.(1) (2)  In other words, most people who have low back pain do not have changes on MRI scans to explain their pain, and many patients who have no pain whatsoever have very definite changes on their scans. Far from explaining the cause of back pain, it seems that MRI scans and Xrays can be positively misleading and may lead to inappropriate treatment. 
However if we stop thinking about low back pain and sciatica purely in terms of structural changes and damage to the spine and think more in terms of pain patterns which respond to other approaches, then we have more options for successful treatment, relief of pain and the goal of long term resolution of the problem. 
‘No needle’ electroacupuncture and GHET tap into  the body's own healing mechanisms and pathways. By careful selection of points and areas on the body we can stimulate anti-inflammatory pathways, boost pain-relieving substances such as endorphins and produce changes in other chemical signalling systems such as dopamine pathways. These changes lead to fundamental and lasting change and remodelling in the brain itself resulting in long term improvement.

​(1) Tonosu J, Oka H, Higashikawa A, Okazaki H, Tanaka S, Matsudaira K. The associations between magnetic resonance imaging findings and low back pain: A 10-year longitudinal analysis. PLoS One. 2017;12(11):e0188057. Published 2017 Nov 15. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188057
(2) Deyo RA, Weinstein J. Low Back Pain. N Engl J Med 2001; 344:363-370 DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200102013440508