Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection | John E. Sarno

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	Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection John E. Sarno Warner Books, 1991 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 360 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An accidental, miraculous find!

I've been fighting spondy in my L5/S1 region, as well as nerve damage, since 1993/94 (due to injury). The diagnosis and prognosis continues to puzzle my orthopedic professionals for many years now because I refuse to have a fusion until the day arrives that I can no longer walk. Arthritic flare-ups during winter months have pretty much turned me against cold weather. The bursitis in my left hip has become so much worse that I was referred to a physical therapist who specializes in hip/pelvic work. At present, I am only 42 years old, but my doctors have taken everything away from me that I love doing. Most activities require more 'back' straining than they say I can handle. This is a hard pill to swallow for someone who had led a very active lifestyle until the age of 29.

I don't take med's. I truly believe in PT as a way to keep myself motivated to do what I can. So I visited this newly referred PT. She's great; she found so many things going on inside me. But to touch me was excruciating. When we started talking about how the injuries occurred, she learned more than she bargained for. There is much traumatic history that goes with the damage. I told her I had finished writing my book about what happened and how I had to dig up a lot of the memories to get the details in print (not published yet). She told me about a book another patient had told her about. I immediately bought this book. To be honest, as a psychology minor, I was rather skeptical about the content as far as the first chapter. Amazingly, by the end of Chapter 2, I was 100% pain-free!

I visited the PT at mid-way of the book. I said nothing about how I was feeling; just told her I'd been reading the book she recommended. (Note, she had NOT yet read this book). As she was palpating all the trigger points of where my pain lived, she commented something was so not normal for me, that I had not screamed the first time that visit! I told her she has to read this book because it speaks to the subconscious mind, somehow, for I had done nothing but read. There had been no written exercises, just enlightened reading. The following week I returned to her and she found that I was still pain-free, even with adding cardio (walks) to my daily routine... something that was not even in the picture for so long.

I've been pain-free for 1 month now. I'm a newbie at this, and I'm so enjoying the feeling of 'freedom' from the pain that had bound me for years. I added another activity this weekend: I had to wash my lawn tractor. To my surprise, there is still NO pain!!! My friends talk to me on the phone and comment how "calm" and positive I sound. They are amazed at the change in me. Chronic pain messes with the whole of a person, not just an area or two. My mood is upbeat always, stress doesn't bother me now (I've been juggling home ownership crises with a smile!), and I just feel I can conquer any mountain now.

I spoke with my GP about this book, also, as I have about other 'non-traditional diagnoses and treatment' books. He's a great GP and his favorite pass time is endocrinology. As I showed him the book, his face lit up and he said, "I love that book!"

I've recommended this book to friends and colleagues who have struggled with unending pain, some for far longer than I. It is my hope that others will learn of this theory and realize that TMS is a part of our culture that continues to evolve in the arena of those who still 'practice' medicine. I believe Dr. Sarno has finished his 'practice' and has hit the nail on the head with this! Denial is a very powerful thing, and once the issues are acknowledged and validated, they (and the denial) find their way to release a person. It seems Dr. Sarno's sermon is that it's okay to be angry, but not okay to hide it for fear of what others will think. It hurts only the person who bottles the anger.

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Can not over emphasize the importance of this information.

"Healing Back Pain" is 90% as good as "Mind body Prescription" only because it's 1991, instead of 1999. Some of Sarno's assertions are not as confident. However, he DOES offer much more patient related stories and different examples than the later. I read "Mindbody Prescription" first, and I was cured of RSI. (I am a musician and didn't play cello for 2 years)
I then ordered "Healing Back Pain" as a follow up, and I enjoyed reading it as much as the first book. The two books a different enough that you should read both. I am currently reading "Divided Mind," and it is even more opinionated that the other two, but for good reason. Sarno is furious at contemporary medicine for their dangerous mis-diagnoses, and so am I.

Again, I HIGHLY recommend you read this book. If you haven't read any of Sarno's books, you may want to start with "Mindbody Prescription." It is a little more specific about treatment plans, although "Healing Back Pain" does this also.

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For the skeptics, these books are so cheap, what have you got to loose? I spent thousands of dollars on medical treatments that did practically NOTHING. Join me in a world of freedom where you can forget about all this pain insanity.

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Five Year Update

Dr. Sarno, who I first heard about on the Howard Stern Show, has developed a fascinating and incredibly helpful tool for the elimination of pain: your own brain. I purchased the video tapes and hoped for the best. But by this time I had been experiencing extreme pain for years. Pain so bad I would have welcomed amputation of the offending limb. At times I was unable to move my head and stupid things like turning to look behind while backing up the car was turned into a circus of pain and weird body contortions.

Nothing I did used normal, fluid body motions. Everything caused pain. I couldn't even lean over the sink to brush my teeth. Lifting my neck to shave below the chin was unthinkable. Sitting too long made my low back ripple with waves of pain. Standing to long made my back hurt. Sometimes my jaw would hurt so bad I wished I could just rip it from my face. My legs would pulsate with deep, deep pain that roamed from my butt all the way down to my toes. It was insane. I was miserable.

I had done all the things I could think of, chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, braces, straps, ointments, unguents, creams, lotions, magnets, hot rocks, salts, and more. An endless search for the relief of pain seemed to consume much of my time.

It was with a skeptical mind that began Dr. Sarno's prescription. And I meticulously followed all the Doctor's advice. And slowly over a period of weeks and months, my pain was slowly removed. It took time and it took introspection, repetition, perseverance but it was not difficult. And just watching the video the very first time had an amazing effect.

It has been five years and I am still pain free. I think about it sometimes and I am amazed. I have gone from spending hours doing "therapeutic" neck exercises to rowing a mile every day. And as I continue to add more physical activities, I am gloriously thankful to Dr. Sarno. I have resumed normal daily activities. I bend, twist, jump, lean, sit, stand, walk, run, and climb and the only thing I get is sore muscles.

If you are at your wits end and just wished the pain would go away, just to melt away for once, then try this Doctor's prescription.

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give it a chance

it wont work if you dont believe it. read the whole book, figure it out, and fix the pain

A Different Perspective for Pain

If you have a "bad back" Dr. Sarno's book is worth reading. There's an emotional component to all forms of chronic pain, and this book will shed light on how much thought is a factor. Some people think he's saying that you're to blame for your pain or that it's all "in your head," but this book is just giving you a different way to look at it. Very enlightening! I recommend it to all my clients with chronic pain.

Anita Boser, LMP, CHP, author of Relieve Stiffness and Feel Young Again with Undulation

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