Why
Can No One
Legally Claim to Heal Pain?
By Darrell Stoddard - Copyright 2007
Part 2
of 4 Dictatorial Judgment of
the
Federal Trade Commission against
Darrell Stoddard
Abstract:
• No One Can Legally Claim
to Heal Pain
• The Physiology of Pain is
Unknown to Western Medicine
• Testable Theory of the Physiology
of Pain
• Pain Management Definition
of Pain
• Do Doctors Know the Cause
of Pain?
• No Pain Medications Should
be Used
• Is Biotape More Than
a Placebo?
No One Can Legally Claim to Heal Pain
What makes the Judgment against Darrell Stoddard so ludicrous
is that even with double blind studies, no one and no product is
legally allowed to even claim to heal pain – they can only offer
symptomatic relief for minor aches and pain. This is treating the
symptom, not the cause, and then it is only for minor pain. What about
unending excruciating pain? Can no one heal that? No one, not even MDs,
can legally claim to do so.
The Physiology of Pain is
Unknown to Western Medicine
This mind boggling
enigma exists because the underlying cause and physiology of chronic
pain has never been discovered by Western medicine. If no one
knows what pain is, then no one can claim to heal pain. Even medical
doctors cannot legally claim to heal or cure pain but must manage the pain instead. I will boldly answer
the question of what pain is and tell you how to heal your own pain
(without drugs or surgery) even if I go to prison for doing so.
Benjamin Rush physician, Revolutionary war hero, and signer of
the Declaration of Independence stated:
“Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution, the time
will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover
dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men
and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of
medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic.”
Do we have an undercover medical dictatorship? Years ago in Utah,
an Indian medicine man was sent to prison on the testimony of eleven
people that claimed he healed them. Not because he failed, but because
he healed them. I could go to prison or lose everything I own on
the testimony of thousands of people that claimed Biotape,
or I healed them.
Testable Theory of the Physiology
of Pain
There
is a significant difference between myself and other defendants
charged with making false and misleading medical claims to relieve
pain. I offer a scientifically testable theory for identifying
the underlying cause and physiology of pain:
Pain occurs when the endogenous electrical signals between
cells are broken, disconnected, shut off, or suppressed.
After measuring the electrical resistance at the site of pain
on more than 18,000 patients, I unequivocally state that 100% of
the time there is more electrical resistance wherever there is
pain. If you can reduce the resistance (which is what Biotape
does) the pain is relieved with no harm done. When applied to
the skin, Biotape becomes, electrically, a living
part of the body
Any electrical conductor such as silver, copper, or the inside
of a banana peel applied to the skin will connect the broken circuits
on the surface immediately. This often gives almost immediate relief.
If you leave the conductive element on longer, there is reason
to believe that it helps repair broken connections deeper in the
tissue.
When you hit your thumb with a hammer, the reason it hurts is
because you have broken the electrical connections between cells.
It stops hurting when the body reconnects the broken circuits. This
is how the body heals pain and the only way we can heal pain, by helping
the body to reconnect the broken circuits that are the underlying cause
of pain.
The Chinese call the endogenous electrical signals (that can
be measured and quantified) in the body "Qi" or “Chi” and believe
that pain is caused by the "breaking" or “blockage of Chi.” This is
the foundation of my research to discover the underlying cause and physiology
of pain. I am indebted to the 2000 year old Chinese tradition for what
I have learned.
The body knows how to heal itself. When it doesn't heal, is when
the electrical signals (Chi) can't get through to tell cells how
to repair. Biotape not only connects
the broken circuits that cause the pain but it allows for the signal
to go through telling the cells how to repair or heal.
You can find out if this theory will help your own pain for ten
cents. You don't need to be a medical doctor or a scientist. You
don't need a college degree, or even a grade school education. And
you don't need double-blind placebo controlled studies. (See “Stop
Pain for Ten Cents” on the internet.)
Pain Management Definition
of Pain
A pitifully vague and wholly inadequate definition of pain, given
by pain “management” doctors and subscribed to by most medical
doctors, states, “Pain is an unpleasant sensory
and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue
damage, or described in terms of tissue damage”
This is like saying, 1. Pain is when you hurt. 2. Pain is associated
with tissue damage 3. Pain is associated with tissue that is going
to be damaged. 4. Pain is described in terms of tissue damage.
Brilliant, isn't it? Does anyone not know that pain is an
unpleasant sensory and emotional experience? Does anyone not know
that when tissue is damaged it causes pain? Can anyone in this world
please tell me what “potential tissue damage” is, and how do you
explain pain in terms of tissue damage? The more damage the
more pain? Not so, because you can have extensive damage and little
pain, or little or no damage and severe pain.
In
defense of the infomercial that sold Biotape, Smart Inventions
hired a well known pain specialist to testify. It harmed their
case when he parroted the above definition of pain (what his pain
management association had collectively decided was the cause of
pain). No wonder medical doctors know of nothing but drugs and surgery
for pain. They automatically endorse the above definition of pain
without giving it any thought.
The first two parts of this definition of pain subscribed to
by every doctor of “pain management” are certainly true, “Pain
is when you hurt” and “Pain is an indication that your tissue is
damaged.” This describes pain but it tells you absolutely nothing
about how to treat pain, how the body heals pain, or what pain is.
The definition begs the questions, “What is pain” (the actual underlying
physiology of pain)? How does the body heal pain? Why do people hurt
when they have not been injured (damaged)? Why does pain continue
long after the damaged tissue has healed?”
Because pain specialists cannot answer these questions and because
they do not know the underlying cause of pain, doctors treat the
pain signal (symptom) instead with 50 billion dollars of drugs each
year (world wide sales of analgesics) – medications that cause gastro-intestinal
bleeding, cause liver or kidney failure, reduce motor and mental
function, increase the risk of heart attack and strokes, or with
narcotics (that addicts kill to get) which paralyze the bowels or
cause respiratory suppression, all of which may lead to total loss
of function and death.
Do Doctors Know the Cause
of Pain?
If you find it hard to believe that doctors do not know or understand
the physiology of pain, the next time you go to any doctor,
ask him or her to treat the underlying cause of your pain, not
just suppress the pain signal with drugs.
If you do ask, the doctor may say that inflammation is the cause
of pain; so they prescribe an anti-inflammatory medication. There
is something seriously wrong with this. It is an indisputable biological
fact that inflammation is a vital function of the healing process.
Most injuries cannot heal without inflammation. Should you take
something or be given something that is anti healing? Inflammation
is a symptom not a cause. The answer is to correct what causes the
inflammation and then let the inflammation heal the injury.
Pain is most often called a symptom, and that is what virtually
all medical doctors think it is; so it is treated as a symptom with
medications that do a lot of harm. If modern medicine ever learns
what pain is, then pain will be treated as a disease (instead of
a symptom) with methods that “do no harm.”
Then it will be possible for doctors to live
up to their Hippocratic Oath.
A surgeon
might tell you that your pain is caused by a pinched nerve from
a herniated disk (or from stenosis or from arthritic spurs) which
is the justification for nearly all spinal surgery. If pinched
nerves are the cause of pain, then surgically “un-pinching” the
nerve would stop the pain. The problem is, too often it doesn't do
so. People can be in more pain after surgery when the nerve is not
pinched than they were before.
Decompression back surgery fails
often enough and the results are so devastating that we question
if the practice should even be done, and if the theory is even true.
You can have a herniated disk (pinched nerve) and no pain. You
can also have excruciating back pain when the nerve is not pinched.
The definition of pain that I have given explains this; modern medicine
cannot.
See
Spinal Surgery is Unproven in part three of this paper for some
of the leading authorities in the world who say “spinal surgery
for pain should never be done” and scientific research that concludes
“back surgery is helpful only 1% of the time.” See the book
Pain Free for Life to learn why scar tissue,
arthritis and “bone on bone” due to worn out cartilage, cannot possibly
be the cause of pain either.
A Canadian professor of medicine, with 13 letters behind his name,
did a 138 page study for the Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova
Scotia. The upshot of the study was that it was a serious waste of
Canadian resources to look for the cause of pain with costly imaging
devices and expensive medical tests, because the cause of chronic
pain was just not going to be found. He cited a Mayo Clinic study
which found that the search for the cause of chronic pain was unsuccessful
94% of the time.
We assume that 6% of the time (when
they claimed to find the cause of pain) they discovered a broken bone,
herniated disk, tumor, or some other pathology. Even then the
question remains unanswered, "Why do
people hurt when they have not been injured and there is no underlying
pathology?" My definition of pain explains
this; modern medicine cannot.
Until the physiology and underlying cause of chronic pain is known,
we will continue to treat the pain signal or symptom with 50 billion
dollars worth of drugs a year (world wide sale of analgesics) that
only mask or cover up the pain.
“No Pain Medications Should
Be Used”
Elliott
Antman, MD, from the Cardiovascular Division of the Brigham
and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, recently made a
statement for the American Heart Association stating that
no pain medications should be used, because
all of them (over the counter and prescription) can increase the
risk of a heart attack or stroke.
Now that the FTC has prohibited me from selling
a product (to relieve pain) that does no harm,
I will not be able to pay the $86,000 fine. They may take away my $24,000
house (admittedly worth more now because of inflation) and then send
me to prison, but they cannot silence me. I will continue to speak out
against harmful medical practices especially pain medications because
they kill thousands more each year than the war in Iraq. It is
estimated that Vioxx alone killed from 26,000 to 55,600 people.
Is Biotape More Than
a Placebo?
Biotape may be no more than a placebo. I cannot
say for sure because the FTC complaint against me made it impossible
to do a double-blind placebo controlled study. Two things lead
me to believe that Biotape is more than a placebo and that Biotape
does in fact correct the underlying cause of pain:
First: Thousands of chronic pain patients have been helped
after countless years of going to numerous doctors and pain specialists
and trying everything. Why did nothing or no one else have a placebo
effect? Why was Biotape the first placebo to work?
Second: The percentage of people helped is greater than what
could be attributed to the “placebo effect.” It is a scientific
medical fact that thirty, and even as high as forty percent of people
will be helped by a sugar or starch pill (placebo) if they really
believe it is going to help them.
Australian national television filmed
me treating sixteen chronic pain patients. One hundred percent
were helped! Dennis Remington, M.D. for 13 years presided over 12,000
of my treatments for pain. He concluded that overall my treatments were
successful 80% of the time. I’ve learned to help even a higher percentage
of people since then.
This is still not conclusive evidence and Darrell Stoddard may
be the best placebo in the world, but if anyone will provide ten
patients who are scheduled for spinal surgery, I will make five or
more of them better with one or two treatments. In my own mind I believe
I can make nine of them better (if they are properly hydrated and not
on too much pain medication).
The judgment against me presents an opportunity to tell why pain
medications are a catastrophic medical mistake and to reveal safe,
effective, drug free treatments for pain.
Darrell Stoddard,
Founder - Pain Research Institute www.healpain.net
Author – Pain Free
for Life
and a future book
Cure
Pain
And other Diseases for a Dime
(Read about my new book in part 4 of this paper.)
Email: Stoddard@healpain.net
266 East 3200 North, Provo, UT 84604 U.S.A.
Phone 801-377-3891
To find out
how to buy Biotape or Biotape products,
you will need to do a Google Search on the Internet. I am forbidden
in the judgment by the FTC to sell any pain product or even tell
you where to buy.
The bourgeois today
burns as heretics
and hangs as criminals
those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow
- Herman Hesse
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