Healing Back Pain
Dr. John E. Sarno is a medical pioneer whose program has helped thousands of thousands of people overcome their back conditions--without or drugs or dangerous surgery. Now, using his grounbreaking research into TMS (Tension Mytostis Syndrome), Dr. Sarno goes one step further: after identifyig stress and other psychological factors in back pain, he demonstrates how many of his patiens have gone on to heal themselves without exercise or other physical therapy. Find out:Why self-motivated and successful people are prone to TMS How anxiety and repressed anger trigger muscle spasms How people "train themselves' to experience back pain How you may get relief from back pain within two to six weeks by recognizing TMS and its causesWith case histories and the results of in-depth mind-body research, Dr. Sarno describes how patients recognize the emotional roots of their TMS and sever the connections between mental and physical pain... and how, just by reading this book, you may start recovering from back pain today.
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- Reading Dr Sarnos book "Healing Back Pain" was an off switch for me.
- experienced something very similar. thought I would leave my field permanently out of frustration and despair. I like my work now, but faced with that burnout again do not think I could power through it a second time.
Apropos, I had chronic pain throughout this experience. I thought it was just aging, irreversible, and something that compounded my hopelessness. It's very surprising to be 10 years older now but feel 20 years younger. Books like "The Body Keeps the Score" or "Healing Back Pain" used to seem woo to me, but now I am convicted that health comes from within as much or more than it does from without.
- I had sciatica for years and inflation in my hips so bad I could barely walk 500 meters while in college. Basically only kept going by iboprufen, naproxen and paracetamol. I tried everything. Acupuncture/LSD/ultra sound/kiro/physio/yoga had mri’s/xrays/you name it I had dr. Sarno’s healing back pain for 2 years on my shelf before I took a holiday and read the whole thing in one go. Fell asleep for 4 hours and woke up pain free for the first time in 7 years. Started to come back a few times but I would just read the book again and go for a run. Been smooth sailing for 10 years now.
- I had the same experience. For years, like clockwork I had monthly episodes of debilitating back/neck pain that only my chiropractor could "fix".
After reading Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by John E. Sarno ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144873.Healing_Back_Pain ), I recognized that my body was trying distract me from my troubled relationship at that time. On my next painful episode, I mentally said "F*ck it, there is nothing wrong with me physically" and the next day the pain was gone, never to resurface again. The whole thing coincided with my relationship finally ending, so that might have had a positive impact as well.
It still blows my mind though, how much grief my brain gave me over the years.
- I had intermittent, debilitating back issues for years after a grappling injury in my 20s - spasms that would come in an instant or appear overnight and take me off my feet for weeks. Brutal. Multiple people recommended Sarno’s “Healing Back Pain’, and I resisted it as woo for years until yet another recommendation got the best of me. I needed to read only the first chapter to recognize that while some of Sarno’s conjecture about the actual mechanism of action may be wrong, his thesis about much (not all) back pain applied perfectly to my situation, and since then - years ago now - I’m effectively cured of my issue.
Passed the book to my dad, who had similar issues, and he’s had only a few such incidents in the intervening years - a huge improvement.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/well/mind/john-sarno-chro... “Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection.” By John Sarno . This definitely helped me through my back pain
