Healing Back Pain

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English language

Published March 15, 2001 by Grand Central Publishing.

ISBN:
978-0-7595-6193-9
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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 …

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Sarno has one of these pet theories that he's so excited about that he's convinced it explains everything. Much of the book is a run-down of a long list of diseases and disorders that can now be subsumed under the "Tension Myositis Syndrome" diagnosis he's invented, and of a large variety of treatments for these diseases and disorders that are now obsolete thanks to his talking cure, which mostly consists of convincing patients that they have TMS. If you come to have the same faith in TMS that Sarno has, you will be healed, apparently. Throw down your crutches and believe.

Sarno's evidence for his theory is weak (or at least the evidence he shares with us in this book): anecdotes and hunches for the most part. The logical leaps he asks us to take in order to dismiss alternate hypotheses and diagnoses are enormous. But faith healing will always …

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