Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
Mar 2001 · Sold by Balance
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Dr. John E. Sarno's groundbreaking research on TMS (Tension Myoneural Syndrome) reveals how stress and other psychological factors can cause back pain-and how you can be pain free without drugs, exercise, or surgery.
Dr. Sarno's program has helped thousands of patients find relief from chronic back conditions. In this New York Times bestseller, Dr. Sarno teaches you how to identify stress and other psychological factors that cause back pain and demonstrates how to heal yourself--without drugs, surgery or exercise. Find out:
Dr. Sarno's program has helped thousands of patients find relief from chronic back conditions. In this New York Times bestseller, Dr. Sarno teaches you how to identify stress and other psychological factors that cause back pain and demonstrates how to heal yourself--without drugs, surgery or exercise. Find out:
- Why self-motivated and successful people are prone to Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS)
- How anxiety and repressed anger trigger muscle spasms
- How people condition themselves to accept back pain as inevitable
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4.4
39 reviews
Michael Stickler
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December 17, 2013
This book is full of misinformation and will guide patients in the wrong direction. As I lie in bed with an acute L4/5 disc herniation with subsequent radiculopathy, I am unhappy with the course I must take to remedy. Due to my consequential motor deficits (foot drop) I will likely require surgery. I had an epidural last pm which has helped with pain but is not a permanent fix. I am not surprised that both buttocks have point tenderness as ALL muscles in close proximity participate in the guarding phenomenon. This book for those with disc herniation is the worse information possible. If you have pure muscle pain read on....
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A Google user
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August 13, 2014
Worthless book I have ever read. Main cause of LBP is chronic stress - the only idea. Why do u need to write 133 pages?
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William Gallo
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June 19, 2014
The mind is by far the most complex thing in our bodies, and we have yet touch the tip of what effect it has on our well being. This book is a clear case study on the matter. Loved it.
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About the author
John Ernest Sarno Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 23, 1923. He attended Kalamazoo College in Michigan for three years before leaving in 1943 to join the Army. During World War II, he worked in field hospitals in Europe. He received a medical degree from Columbia University in 1950 and spent nearly a decade in family practice. He returned to New York in 1960 for a residency in pediatric medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and then another residency at the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York University. He joined N.Y.U.'s Rusk Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine in 1965 and practiced there until his retirement in 2012. He maintained that most instances of non-traumatic chronic pain - including back pain, gastrointestinal disorders, headaches, and fibromyalgia - are physical manifestations of deep-seated psychological anxieties. He wrote several books including Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection; The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain; The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders; Stroke; and Mind Over Back Pain: A Radically New Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Back Pain. He died from cardiac failure on June 22, 2017 at the age of 93.
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