News - Daily Mail Ireland : Bi-Aura treats Back Pain
Tuesday 30 May, 2006
by Angela Epstein from Daily Mail Ireland
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 | Pain-free : Bi-Aura helped Regina Stanley after 20 years of agony |
WHEN conventional treatment failed to help housewife Regine Stanley, 45, she despaired of ever being cured. But now Regine is free from pain after being treated by a new complementary therapy called Bi-Aura. Here, Regine, who lives in Dublin with her husband, Noel, 47, and their children Fabian, 18, Eric, 10 and Isabelle, 6, tells ANGELA EPSTEIN her story ...
WALKING your children to school should be a lovely way to start the day. But even though my daughter's school was only a ten minute walk away, each step was agony.
Each morning as I dropped Isabelle off, there were tears of pain in my eyes as I steeled myself for the journey home. I couldn't drive her, as sitting behind the wheel when your spine is locked in spasm is impossible. But with each painful step I took I wondered if I would ever be free of a back problem which had plagued my life for over 20 years.
I would still be suffering today had one of the teachers outside school not spotted me one morning. Through gritted teeth I told her about my bad back. But instead of getting the usual sympathetic comments she actually had a solution.
She explained that a friend with similar back problems had been cured by a new form of alternative therapy called Bi-Aura. And although it sounded a very strange concept, I was desperate and set out to find a practitioner. It was a decision that would turn my life around.
My problems started back in 1984
My problems started back in 1984 when I was working as a nurse's aid and had to lift a heavy patient. I started getting pains in my back which triggered bouts of sciatica – inflammation of the sciatic nerve that runs down each leg.
At first I would treat this with bed rest and physiotherapy. I learned to live with a dull ache in my back. But over the next few months the problem got worse, coming to a head when I was pregnant with my son, Eric. I would get sharp pains in my lower back and couldn't straighten up.
In 1996 the pain got so bad that I was referred to a specialist who gave me an MRI scan. This revealed that I had a protruding disc in the lower part of my back. Since surgery to correct this is quite risky, my consultant recommended that I try physiotherapy, which I did once a week for: ten weeks. Though there was initial relief after each appointment, within a couple of days the pain came back.
OVER the years I learned to live with the throbbing ache in my back. But with no sign of any improvement my consultant suggested I saw a chiropractor, which was incredibly painful. Meanwhile I took drugs to deal with the pain.
Eventually I was given a 24-hour epidural - more commonly used to control the agony of labour to tackle my pain. But while it numbed me and took away the pain for a day, once it wore off the pain was worse than ever, and the consultant was out of options.
I battled on but it was so hard trying to look after young children with such a bad back. Even the slightest physical activity was agony. I would wake three or four times a night in dreadful pain.
So when the teacher outside my daughter's school recommended I see her friend's therapist I felt I had nothing to lose. Looking into it though, I was extremely sceptical that it could work as Bi-Aura seems to work on such a flimsy premise.
Bi-Aura practitioners are trained to locate blockages
Bi-Aura practitioners are trained to locate blockages and imbalances in the body's energy system - which could cause pain and illness - by using a series of hand movements. Then by raising the frequency and vibration of their own energy, again with special hand movements, they are able to attract energy to the damaged areas and to draw trapped or blocked energy out of the body.
It was hardly scientific and sounded highly unlikely to work. Where was the equipment, the medicine that could make this happen? How on earth could someone heal me if they weren't even going to touch me?
Even so I went to see the therapist, Grainne Walsh, at her clinic in Dublin, who talked through my medical history before recommending four hour-long treatments over four consecutive days.
At the start of the first session I stood painfully still as she began to pass her hands over me. It sound ridiculous but my body felt very strange, as if it was made up of millions of tangled electric wires. After ten minutes I was told to lie down on the massage table while she continued to pass her hands over me, supposedly pulling energy from blocked channels.
At the end of the first session I still had pain but also felt very cold and tired. This is never going to work, I told myself, as I got home and wrapped myself in warm clothes. I slept covered in several blankets but when I woke up the pain in my back was less acute and more of a nagging ache.
Incredibly, after the second day the pain began easing up slightly. By the end of day four my back felt so relaxed and when I walked my daughter to school I found I had done it almost without complaint.
Having had success with other short term treatments before, I fully expected my back to become painful again after completing the' four day treatment. However it stayed away. I couldn't believe it.
Not wanting to lose momentum I saw Grainne four weeks later and have peen seeing her every month since then. Sometimes when Grainne passes her hands over me, my body takes on a life of its own and I find myself stretching according to my body's will or lifting my arms up without meaning to. I sometimes find my body bending in ways I never thought it ever would. Within five months I felt better than I had in years.
Obviously I know I haven't been physically cured - the disc is still out of place and probably will be for the rest of my life. But life is liveable. I can walk, sleep easily and manage to get around without discomfort. Something I never now take for granted.
MY FAMILY say they have noticed an enormous difference in me. They tell me I'm not irritable any more and friends say my face looks so calm and relaxed.
After some sessions I do feel worse than before - but this never lasts more than an hour and I always feel better afterwards.
I move within my limitations. I don't lift anything heavy and I'm not going to run marathons. But now I can enjoy the simple pleasures in life again. I've started cycling and swimming which gives me a great sense of freedom.
I still find it hard to believe that I have been treated without a single drug, needle or even a stroke of massage. But knowing that my only alternative is back surgery for which there are no guarantees - I'm grateful to have found something which has literally changed my life.
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