Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

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Summary: This book has made a huge, positive difference in my life.
Review: I was always glancing through the self-help back cure section of the bookstores hoping to find a miracle and I stumbled on this book. I had been suffering with chronic backpain for over a year at the time and was willing to try just about anything. I had already exhausted traditional medicine, chinese medicine and acupuncture. I was constantly applying ice to my lower back to numb it. It was having a decidely negative effect on my home life - my husband and children were suffering right along with me . For the first weeks after reading the book I continued to have spells of terrible pain but refused to resort to using ice, etc. I took the back pillow out of my car, I resumed all regular activities including cross country skiing which I had blamed for the pain in the first place. It has now been four months since I read the book and I am 90% free of pain and expect to be 100% free. It is a tough journey - I had learned to expect pain during certain activities and had to retrain my thinking. It also wasn't any fun thinking of all the ways anger was affecting me. In other words, it took some time, work and soul searching on my part to apply his theories but the payoff has been a complete return to my old life. I even went downhill skiing this spring. Please read the book and see for yourself. It could work for you too!

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Summary: experienced this first hand--it works
Review: Was told by a doctor that I would be paralyzed & incontinent over 3 years ago without emergency surgery--Dr. Sarno showed another way while still having me follow through to make sure that I was mediclly sound via conventional means--referred me to a neurologist who gave me "the benefit of the doubt" and here I am stronger than ever without any surgical procedures. It's hard and emotionally painful--but it works...

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Summary: End back pain forever!
Review: I was told about this book by a business associate. He was unable to bend down to tie his shoes much less play with his infant son. After reading this book he was pain free in a matter of days. Sounds too good to be true, but I had been through 10 years of pain, chiropractic, exercises, medication, hanging upside down - all to no avail. The doctors wanted to operate, the diagnisis was a herniated disk at L5. Two weeks after reading this book I was pain free. I was sceptical at first but had nothing to loose. Everyone that I have referred to this book has been 100% cured. Read it and change your life.

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Summary: If you have back pain you MUST read this book.
Review: This book will change your life and your outlook on many illness'. I was told I would never regain use of my leg unless I had surgery on my back. By reading this book and by seeing Dr. Sarno my back pain was eliminated. His focus is on tension and anger and how it affects your body.

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Summary: Will it work for you?
Review: I read this book over a year ago and I've been "liberated" from my backpain. It took a few months of hard work working with the book. I have tried giving this book to other "back sufferers" but most people, for whetever reason, can't relate to this book. Perhaps they need the emotional crutch of being a "sufferer" or they can't admit to having "problems" or perhaps they don't have the time and patientence to "work" through this book. Pity

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Summary: This book will change your life.
Review: When I was told by somebody else who read Dr. Sarno's book that he read the book and his back pain was gone, I became an immediate skeptic. But after trying every other precedure short of surgery for my back pain, I figured reading the book couldn't be too painful. And I was right--it was actually painless, as I have been ever since. After trying Chiropractors, physical therapy, exercises, drugs, Cordozone injections, epideral taps, back braces etc., it was this book that cured me. I read the book 6 months ago and have not had any pain since. It sounds too good to be true--but it is true. Anybody with back pain must take a few hours to read this incredible book. It seemed that on every page, Dr. Sarno was describing me and my condition. I have gone from having pain all day long at work, limiting all of my activities, to living a pain free and very active lifestyle. I HIGHLY recommend "Healing Back Pain" to anybody and everybody suffering daily from this pain. You won't believe it but it truly has healing powers

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Summary: This book will make your back pain go away in no time!
Review: Dr. Sarno explores back pain from an emotional perspective that most doctors don't even acknowledge. He empowers readers to get rid of their back pain without drugs or surgery. Reading this book gave me the knowledge to eliminate my back pain--I'd been suffering for more than a year--and my headaches as well. I've been pain free for more than a year.
If you're suffering from chronic back pain, read this book

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Summary: A review of the mind's role on causing back pain
Review: This is a very readable book on the way the mind can affect real pain - in the back. It is very readable and convincing. It offer that stress and repressed anger can actually physically constrict nerve impules and its related affects in ways that cause the lower back pain that affects millions of Americans. The key to Dr. Sarno's remedy - and this is the key to being able to believe it and apply it - is to confront the psychogenic origin of the pain and drop all other therapies and aids. In other words, no more physical therapy, braces, exercises or adjustments since these are crutches that preclude confronting the mental origin of the problem. His argument is convincing and worth reading - but as one who suffers from chronic back problems, its an awful tough call to quit the physical remedy in lieu of the mental one. Nonetheless, its worth a read because it does provide insight whether one takes on Dr. Sarno's remedy or not.

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Summary: Healing Back Pain by Sarno
Review: This book links the mind and pain sensations to the gastrointestinal tract. There is an association between the pain signals and the gastrointestinal tract; however, the curative
result is in controlling inflammation. The author provides a good
analysis of peripheral nerve involvement in the management of
pain. Specific coping strategies are cited, as well as
testimonials in the form of numerous letters from satisfied
followers and adherents. The author cites Vitamin C in megadoses
as a preferred treatment option. He relates pain to specific
anger as an undercurrent which magnifies the pain sensations
in proportion to the degree of anger/resentment present.
The author describes the oxygen deprivation in muscles and
specific trigger points for pain. These ideas complement
existing knowledge in conventional medicine,as well as
known oxygen therapies in Europe.

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Summary: This Works and Should Be Required Reading
Review: Several years ago I was off work for nine months because of what the doctors diagnosed as repetitive motion and then disc problems. AFTER major sugery, when they told me I'd be out of work and in excruciating pain the rest of my life, I found this book--it was next to one of those "how to live with excruciating pain" books.

Within two hours of starting to read Dr. Sarno's Healing Back Pain I could turn my neck. Within two weeks the pain was completely gone, and I've been a ball of fire since. I wish I could thank him in person. Buy this book, if you can, do it before you commit to major surgery.