This video is a public service. Everyone needs to watch it.

As a PT student it is so frustrating being told 100 different things when it comes to back pain. I think most of us have realised by now that pain does not equal structural damage. But we need new guidelines for rehabilitation and how to locate the actual issue. Even if it isn't structural. Because right now we're not learning how to deal with this problem. Love the video btw.

I take my hat off to you Prof O'sullivan. we need more people like you in the NHS

I have watched your video with interest but having struggled with back pain since 1997 (initially after a fall through floorboards then in 2010 after a traffic accident ). It took me six months the first time & five months the second time to brave going back out into the world and then returning to work. But back I went & I got on with my life, declining the surgery that I was told would be the ‘only’ thing that could help me. I dealt with the pain in a range of different ways, I went to stress management & relaxation counsellor, I went to an osteopath and a Chinese acupuncturist to aid my recovery (I’m a mother of four, worked full time, attended college part time so how could I just give up!) the pain has never left me. It goes through times when it is excruciating and some times not as bad but I can honestly tell you that it has ‘never’ left me. Part of my studies have be in psychology & I have a diploma in counselling. I have studied theories of pain for many years, the pain response, Somatosensory Cortex, Allodynia, Hyperalgesia etc, etc. I wish there were an answer that fitted everyone but I feel I actually know, from my own experience that ‘there isn’t’! I’m not sorry that I have carried on living my life and doing things I want to do. I am a Grandmother to 9 who range in age from 25 to 4 years so, needless to say, my life has been a full one, just never without pain!

Great interview! Prof O'Sullivan really hits the current problems why a lot of people don't recover from there back problems. Not only from a patiënt perspective but also how we as practioners must be carefull what we fuel our patiënts!

I am asking all my colleagues and patients to watch this video!!

this is indeed a great video, every professional who treats low back pain or in fact any other painful conditions must watch this....

Subscribed. Referred to you by PT, who is currently treating me for my pain. The breathing exercises reduce the pain. Unbelievable. Thank you for your brilliance. Hugs 🤗📿💕💖💕

Peter your work is amazing, if only doctors approached back pain as you do.

connecting and knowing your body is the key

Western society has gone so far down the rabbit hole attempting to "Fix" spinal pain, how we need the light of reality/truth back on the table...well done to Prof POS and all those voices strong enough to start telling the real story

Fantastic video. We arranged a workshop with Kjartan Vibe Fersum three weeks ago for all of our therapists, both naprapaths, physical therapists and personal trainers. Great knowledge in our encounter with patients.

I would very much appreciate an explanation for that. That was wonderful to see those individuals turn their life around. I'm 46, I have a history of trauma and injuries and I work as a physical therapist assistant. The narrative "brace your core and be careful how you lift" is passed out as often as MD's pass out scripts for pills and it perpetuates the pain cycle. It's like driving with the parking brake on. It seems the key is to engage the muscle of the body not brace and force into submission. I do understand the value of correcting postures, movement patterns and muscle imbalances to help bolster and protect the joints, but what made such a huge difference with these individuals. I would like to know as I have back pain and have bulging discs, facet arthritis and an annular tear and I'm tired of being in a holding pattern and watching the days go by and not doing the things I enjoy.

I’m studying clinical exercise physiology, and our lecturers are referring us to these videos to guide how we manage our patients with pain. Peter O’Sullivan’s work is gold, and I highly encourage everyone to rethink their pain - is bending/lifting really going to cause pain or injury recurrence, or is it a pain belief system that needs to be addressed? Sometimes our beliefs about pain are like a self fulfilling prophecy...

Greetings from Canada where I trained in PT. I realize that you have contributed to challenging many very traditional beliefs closely held by many, and I know there are a few others who seem to share some sense that change is necessary, but I have to be honest, I don't know how much hope can be realistically afforded PT in moving into the future. Nicholls, others use a vocabulary that is completely foreign to 99.9% and that is only related to his background in sociology. The psychological aspects are yet another domain that seems completely alien. Listening to Oliver Thompson et al, on Words Matter is both fascinating, but again, as if a completely different planet. How do you keep going? Thanks for posting info.

Finally someone who knows that doctors don't treat causes only symptoms. This also applies to a lot of other things such as depression, bipolar etc etc. The medication keeps them trapped in it. Doctors are not interested in anything else. Medication is big business all over the world!

"....because my GP said...." :(

This is mind opening, great resource! Thank you

Very powerful video that I use often to help clients address their beliefs. Thanks peter!

Physio’s I have seen via the nhs have worked wonders for me, but my pain wouldn’t have disappeared without me being very disciplined in completing my ‘prescribed’ exercises, only bug bear, physios don’t ask about how comfortable our furniture is, so you still need others help and advice, or end up buying something mediocre in terms of helping, but I am certainly not taking away the incredible help I have received from all the physio’s I have seen. They appear to be following this subject matters expert, school of thought, so how widespread is the dissemination of this knowledge over the past decade?Thank you.

Okay that’s great but how do I actually go about fixing my chronic lower back pain?

Dr john sarno look him up. Emotional distress!

This is me - I’m so glad I found this video.

Love this video, I've just started using NLP and Hypnosis techniques to enable some of my Personal Training clients to over come some of the areas where they feel they have a problems Great video

Thank you so much for this video! Are there video's available of the people we see in this video? Like a case report, how you get them to move again.

The music is so darn distracting in this video

Waiting anxiously translation into Portuguese so that we can send to our patients in Brazil

Thank you for this video!! Not enough medical professionals talk about the role of the sensory motor system in chronic muscle pain - whether back, neck, shoulder or hip pain. Muscles LEARN to stay tight due to our movement habits, thoughts, activities and emotional stress. This is called Sensory Motor Amnesia. And these "amnesic" muscles cause pain. Teach people to restore their internal awareness and control of the muscles and movement is freer, more pleasant and pain-free.

perception becomes and is reality

How about nerve pain!!!! I'm stuck with nerve pain in my back and foot for over 2 years.

Can ANYONE help with some advice on Klippel Feil Syndrome and congenital degenerative arthritis in ALL my joints? Nobody knows how to help me.

I must have missed something here. One minute these people are talking about their back pain on a very poorly miked stage (can barely make out what they're saying), the next minute they're bending over and jogging. What changed? Is it all just mental attitude? If so, why did my physiotherapist recommend this video and still give me exercises to do?

I'm a physiotherapist here in Brazil and i'm trying to develop a project to subtitle your videos. I was wondering if you allow us to subtitle it in brazilian portuguese, so more people could access these videos.

Is this the same for the 5% that have had a cord compression? Especially with residual limb weakness from the compression.

Can someone better explain this to me? Is O'Sullivan's suggesting that because pain is a perception (not musculoskeletal), in the context of back pain, that if you just change the way you think about your back, the pain will subside?

Wow, this video perfectly describes the last 10 years of bad advice and pointless medication that I have received since my MRI scan and ''diagnosis''

the chinese say money worries manifest as lower back problems. ..

A remarkable video - should be compulsory viewing for med students.

Very good information . One of the things I disagree with. I think its generally bad to slouch in chairs. Surely decent sitting posture is important. I agree with a lot of fear being created about back pain.

Hi is there any way I could get that paper from Ivan Lin about pain being healthcare system induced? I cannot find it online. Thanks

This guy is an absolute genius...

I can really find myself in these patients. I have also gotten bad help from health care services. But mostly i've been focusing on the stiffness and reinforcing it. Its been very hard to differentiate between made up things and actual things.

Excellent video!! This video can be shared on other accounts? Working with Orofacial Pain and would like to post on my channel.

But how do you even start when you are in so much pain?

Amazing. Thank you!

I need to see this guy I’m literally 20 I was an athlete and my whole life has stopped because of back pain and I can’t play sports and some days barely walk with the pain

Very informative video..thank you.😁

I have suffered with ddd bulging discs prutrusions sciatica in the l4 l5 discs and felt like I'm getting nowhere for around 10 years I'm hoping this video helps me

Brilliant video 😀

music is too loud

very interesting. must say I spent months in agony with my back going back and forth without any relief. told nothing wrong with it without a single person feeling my back. finally had enough after sitting on floor at work in agony one night. went to chiropractors . ten minutes later- three ruptured discs, popped and cracked. few sessions later like new. should embrace "false medicines" in healthcare and alot less people would have long term issues.

Would love to hear what they are saying without the unnecessary sensationalist music

Please don’t interview people in rooms that echo. I find it very hard to understand.

You. You.. Do not KNOW no matter what you think...back to your science!! Maybe you'll noodle it out on day. Sometimes you gotta just accept that the 75 year old guy is telling! It's not comfortable talking about it! I was Proud of my health & Vitality! Maybe too much so. But now I am mortally wounded. Bed bound due to constant severe pain, punctuated by ANY movement. It is awful. It came from Somewhere. It was not there. Then it....developed. I had a major abdominal surgery, I had a fall and a significant concussion impairing my mobility. I had some of life's disappointments, like everyone. Out of Something this back & hip pain developed. Leaving me to try & cope with it.

why this music is so manipulative??

Why isnt this gentleman writing to spinal surgeons and telling them stop operating on such conditions.He passed one in the corridor if a hospital he be like good morning hes quick to make you tube videos.A proffesor with no gonads and no back pain.

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I Think you need back pain

This is called bankrupt expertise.

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