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| marytabby |
Posted - 05/22/2006 : 17:01:16
So on the segment tonight with Elizabeth Vargus on back pain and the young lady who had surgery to have an artificial disc replaced...
To recap, she had a trampoline mishap when she was 9.
Now as a young woman she's got excruciating back pain since a "car accident" in her recent past. Hmmm... she was fine all these years and then a car accident brings on a disc problem so bad that she underwent the disc replacement surgery. Not sure about you all but I'd say if she had a problem she'd be in pain since the age of 9, not since an accident last year.
So she had the surgery and two days later she feels like dancing.
I say placebo. What say you?
P.S. THe segment says 75% of all Americans have back pain.
Ya, no kidding, cause we're all stress balls. |
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| ralphyde |
Posted - 05/30/2006 : 20:22:06
Great posts, Logan and Dr. Ziggles! Now there are at least nine good posts about Dr. Sarno out on that blog. Maybe Dr. Tim will wake up and take notice. Maybe he'll ask John Stossel about him. Maybe he'll do something positive. We can hope so anyway.
Ralph |
| Logan |
Posted - 05/30/2006 : 00:49:31
I tried to post but for some reason my post did not show up. I resent it multiple times so maybe several will show up later. Here it is...
"I don't know how many times I said, "I just want my life back," while I suffered from chronic upped body pain. I've seen that phrase here so many times too.
I hope that somebody reading this post does the same thing I did when reading a similar post three years ago and that is read The Mindbody Prescription by Dr. John Sarno.
I know there is a tendency to feel insulted and incredulous when someone first mentions Sarno's work to you when you are in pain. I know because in 2001, the first time somebody told me about his patients' amazing recoveries, I said, "That's great but he can't help me. My pain is real, physical, the result of a documented car accident."
It took me another year and a half of suffering and trying everything: PT, chiro, accupuncture, myotherapy, drugs, more drugs, surgery to deaden nerves in the affected areas etc.
I experienced continous increasing pain after a "rear-ender" car crash in 1998; by 2002 I was suffering from what I thought to be a full-blown case of fibromyalgia triggered by the soft tissue damage from the accident.
In the fall of 2002 I read Sarno's books and by the spring of 2002 after doing some basic exercises, I was pain free and doing everything I had done before the accident and more. I took up downhill skiing at the age of 33.
I would have been pain free sooner had I let go of the fear that the cure was too good and too "easy" to be true.
I have been pain free for over three years. On top of that, I no longer have the mild knee pain I had before the accident.
It is so tragic that we are willing to take drugs with dangerous and chronic side effects or to subject ourselves to lasers and scalpels yet we are afraid to take a look at the cause beneath the very real physical pain that our very powerful psyches are capable of generating.
The pain is real; Sarno knows that. He never says "it's in your head," what he does is explain how the mind and the body are intricately connected and how the nervous system makes pain.
What he says is that many, many people have "structural abnormalities," and that they only appear to be the cause of the pain.
What he offers is a way to get free of it.
What do you have to lose to find out if he's right? Only your money and your life, wasted years of your life. The thing that spoke to me the most clearly about Dr Sarno's intentions, is this, he doesn't want your money.
He's too busy to see you, really, there's too many patients who think they need to see him in the flesh for the cure to work - I never have met him but if I ever do I'll shake his hand for saving my life.
What he says on his website is to read the books (available at your local library for free) and to buy the CDs only if you really think you need them. Compare that to the thousands of dollars you've already spent on practicioners and doctors who can't help you but won't tell you that.
I know this sounds like Dr. Sarno is paying me - he's not, for the record - but I just want to save somebody from spending unnecessary years in pain like I did. I feel it's the best way to repay the good Doctor for his services."
Did you notice that one of the paid advertisers on the blog was a laser surgery center? Kind of makes you wonder about journalistic objectivity. |
| ralphyde |
Posted - 05/22/2006 : 19:16:52
Go to Dr. Tim Johnson's blog on this series and tell him about Dr. Sarno and TMS.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2006/05/dr_tim_johnson_.html#comments
I already did, but we need more testimony there.
Ralph |
| scorsese |
Posted - 05/22/2006 : 19:01:22
TMS |
| Allan |
Posted - 05/22/2006 : 17:10:16
Well said Mary.
Allan. |
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