false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172167163m/144873.jpg 144873 6 <I>Healing Back Pain</I> promises permanent elimination of back pain without drugs, surgery, or exercise. It should have been titled <I>Understanding TMS Pain</I>, because it discusses one particular cause of back pain--Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS)--and isn't really a program for self-treatment, with only five pages of action plan (and many more pages telling why conventional methods don't 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 mind's effort to repress emotions. He's not saying that your pain is all in your head; rather, he's 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 doesn't work any more, and there's no need for the pain. (<I>Healing Back Pain</I> should not be used for self-diagnosis. Always consult a physician for chronic or acute back pain.) <I>--Joan Price</I> 2291234 1 2 1991 Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection total:87|5:24|4:25|3:31|2:4|1:3| 87 324 142 28 3 1 false false Mon Nov 24 08:17:49 -0800 2008 Sat Sep 27 08:55:46 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 08:17:49 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Feb 10 23:07:17 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 15:07:08 -0800 2008
What Dr. Sarno (NY University med ctr) has discovered (and mainstream medicine has ignored) is that chronic pain is usually a psychosomatic phenomenon. That means it's real physical pain/tension, caused by the mind.

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