Healing Back Pain promises permanent elimination of back pain without drugs, surgery, or exercise. It should have been titled Understanding TMS Pain, because it discusses one particular cause of back pain--Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS)--and isnt really a program for self-treatment, with only five pages of action plan (and many more pages telling why conventional methods dont work). According to John E. Sarno, M.D., TMS is the major cause of pain in the back, neck, shoulders, buttocks, and limbs--and it is caused not by structural abnormalities but by the minds effort to repress emotions. Hes not saying that your pain is all in your head; rather, hes saying that the battle going on in your mind results in a real physical disorder that may affect muscles, nerves, tendons, or ligaments. An injury may have triggered the disorder, but is not the cause of the amount or intensity of the resulting pain. According to Sarno, the mind tricks you into not facing repressed emotion by making you focus on pain in the body. When this realization sinks in ("and it must sink in, for mere intellectual appreciation of the process is not enough"), the trick doesnt work any more, and theres no need for the pain. (Healing Back Pain should not be used for self-diagnosis. Always consult a physician for chronic or acute back pain.) --Joan Price
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Healing Back Pain : The Mind-Body Connection
It really does work. It probably saved my life (
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I never believe in fads and "heal your self in 12 easy steps" type books. But I was getting desperate! I couldnt even walk at times. I remeber sleeping on the floor just 15 feet from the bathroom and how it took 30 minutes of terrible pain to get there. I was having back, neck and shoulder spasms th
Great Book! (
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Dr. Sarno is a true pioneer in regards to diagnosing and treating back pain and has made a tremendous contribution with his discovery of the mind/body connection for this condition. I did, however, as a number of reviewers have pointed out, after reading Healing Back Pain felt the need for additiona
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Several years ago I was off work for nine months because of what the doctors diagnosed as repetitive motion and then disc problems. AFTER major sugery, when they told me Id be out of work and in excruciating pain the rest of my life, I found this book--it was next to one of those "how to live with e
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