Healing back pain - bookrastinating.com

193 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 1991 by Warner Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-446-39230-3

(1 review)

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 …

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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I was recently talking to someone about this book. I spent years with debilitating back pain and I was only in my 20s at the time. I was frustrated because I could never figure out why I was at times having back pain that left me lying on the living room floor. I heard about this book on a talk radio show and after trying all sorts of things from chiropractic to my family doctor I gave this book a shot. This book changed by life.

As soon as I was partially through the book I began to just do things that before I was afraid to try anymore, I went back to traditional strength training, deadlifts and barbell squats, all things I avoided, I avoided anything that might tax my back for fear of being barely able to walk, because in the past they had, although I told myself …

I was recently talking to someone about this book. I spent years with debilitating back pain and I was only in my 20s at the time. I was frustrated because I could never figure out why I was at times having back pain that left me lying on the living room floor. I heard about this book on a talk radio show and after trying all sorts of things from chiropractic to my family doctor I gave this book a shot. This book changed by life.

As soon as I was partially through the book I began to just do things that before I was afraid to try anymore, I went back to traditional strength training, deadlifts and barbell squats, all things I avoided, I avoided anything that might tax my back for fear of being barely able to walk, because in the past they had, although I told myself they would before I did them.

Twenty years later this book came up in conversation with a new friend, as it has many times over the years. I am still doing strength training and now I even run marathons and my back is no longer an issue.

Subjects

Backache -- Psychological aspects
Neck pain -- Psychological aspects
Mind and body