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ralphyde
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 Posted - 01/03/2006 : 20:26:11
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This week NBC Nightly News is doing a series on Chronic Pain and the scientific advancements in understanding it.
Tonight they did mention that the brain is more involved than previously thought, and they are discovering connections to the emotional part of the brain, but they are still way behind Dr. Sarno in finding a cure.
But this series will continue this week. Tonight's segment can be seen online at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/
Click on "The Mystery of Chronic Pain"
Maybe it will have something better as the week goes on.
Ralph
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ralphyde
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Posted - 01/03/2006 : 20:41:59
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On the health page, I found the script for the article. Here's an excerpt:
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For many years doctors have known the basics of pain perception. Specialized nerves throughout the body detect the pain and send a signal up through the spinal cord to the brain.
That is correct, but scientists now know it is only a small part of the story. Lots of new research shows that the brain plays the critical role.
"There are connections with the emotional parts of the brain," Oaklander says, "So that when we feel pain, it might make us sad or make us cry out or scream. It prompts fear."
Most of the time pain is temporary. But sometimes, for people like Tworoger, the complex interactions go haywire for unknown reasons, leading to chronic pain.
"I try to focus on the things that I appreciate and that are good in my life," Tworoger says. “But, you know, not everyday is a good day."
Dr. Oaklander believes she will eventually be able to treat Tworoger, but says research will someday find far better methods to cure such difficult constant pain.
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This link is to the written article is at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10696210/
Ralph
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ralphyde
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Posted - 01/03/2006 : 21:47:37
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I have just sent the following email to Dr. Robert Bazell of NBC who is doing the story on Chonic pain. I used the email address of Health@MSNBC.com which I found on the site above:
Dr. Robert Bazell,
To be cutting edge on healing Chronic Pain, you need to include something about Dr. John E. Sarno, who has been successfully curing chronic pain for twenty years or more with a cure rate of 90% or more.
Dr. Sarno is is a professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and attending physician at the Howard A Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University Medical Center. He developed the diagnosis for Tension Myositis Syndrome for chronic back pain and has cured tens of thousands of patients with his treatment methods.
His books including Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, and The Mindbody Prescription. He has expanded his very successful treatment methods to include all sorts of chronic pain, and other TMS equivalents such as asthma, excema, etc.
At 82, he is still seeing patients and curing them at a 90% rate. And he has long known that the pain originates in the brain and is psychogenic in origin. He has gone a lot farther than mainstream medicine in healing chronic pain.
Here's an article you should read:
http://www.wholehealthmd.com/news/viewarticle/1,1513,6,00.html
And you can watch the 20/20 segment on Dr. Sarno after he cured John Stossel of 20 years of chronic back pain in 1999 at:
http://www.goodnewsbroadcast.com/sarno2020.ram
Please do a story on this man who has become the guru of chronic pain. With the information about his methods, people are able to cure themselves. And more doctors need to learn about his diagnosis and treatement, which has been highly successful. This could save billions of dollars in medical costs and lost work for the economy, and relieve the pain of millions of sufferers.
Hopefully, this number is current:
John Sarno, MD
Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine
400 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016
http://www.healingbackpain.com
(212) 263-6035
Very truly yours,
Ralph Hyde
ralphyde@modified so no spam
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Edited by - ralphyde on 01/03/2006 21:51:54 |
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Posted - 01/04/2006 : 07:59:48
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| Unless these journalists have gone through chronic pain themselves, they should have no right to write about it. |
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ralphyde
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Posted - 01/05/2006 : 19:36:33
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Wednesday's article and segment on NBC Nightly News was bumped until tonight (Thursday) because of the mine disaster coverage.
It dealt with the biofeedback experiment at Stanford, using a cat scan to watch the brain activity while the patient tried various brain activities to try to affect the pain, and there is some promise here. Read the article at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10711288/
and watch the video portion on that same page.
Again, this is consistent with Dr. Sarno's techniques, such as: Think psychological instead of physical, and lose the fear.
Another article referenced under "related stories" on the same page tells that "back exercise" patients don't do as well as those who resume normal activity, and it even tends to delay healing. This one's at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9697152/from/RL.2/
Here's an excerpt from this article:
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Researchers found that of the nearly 700 patients with low back pain they followed for 18 months, those who walked and got other forms of “recreational” exercise had a lower risk of pain over time. In contrast, those who performed exercises specifically for their backs appeared to make matters worse.
Lower back pain is one of the most common reasons for Americans’ trips to the doctor, and the top reason people seek alternative therapies like acupuncture. Chiropractors and physical therapists often prescribe exercises to mobilize and strengthen the lower back, but growing evidence suggests that targeting the back does not help, and may even aggravate, the pain.
This, of course, also is consistent with Dr. Sarno's dictum to resume normal activity and discontinue specific exercises which imply a physical problem.
There are also a number of Chronic pain organizations listed, but still no mention of Dr. Sarno and his methods, which seem way ahead of the mainstream medical establishment.
Anyone else who wants to email Robert Bazell at Health@MSNBC.COM should do so to bring more attention to Dr. Sarno and his methods.
Ralph
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ralphyde
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Posted - 01/05/2006 : 21:07:43
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I just discovered that Robert Bazell has a Blog about his series on Chronic pain, and at the end are a bunch of comments by pain sufferers, but none by anyone who has discovered Dr. Sarno, evidently.
You can add your comments, as I just did, and they'll be there for others to see, so that they can have the benefit of hearing about Dr. Sarno and his books. Here's the blog and the link. Please add your praise for Dr. Sarno, especially if you have a success story to tell.
http://dailynightly.msnbc.com/2006/01/the_mystery_of_.html
Ralph
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ralphyde
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Posted - 01/06/2006 : 11:56:44
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My comment about Dr. Sarno and his work made it onto the comment section of Robert Bazell's blog on "The Mystery of Pain."
And better still was the comment of a woman, Cindy, who became pain-free by reading HBP after 7 years of chronic back pain and all sorts of unsuccessful medical treatments.
Read the blog and comments, and add your own comment at:
http://dailynightly.msnbc.com/2006/01/the_mystery_of_.html
The more favorable publicity for Dr. Sarno, the better, so that more sufferers will find out about him and have the opportunity to heal.
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ralphyde
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Posted - 01/07/2006 : 11:37:42
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The third segment of the series on Pain was broadcast on Friday. It dealt with those cases of chronic pain where the doctor can find no physical reason for the pain, and how frustrated the patients bacame. Unfortunately these doctors didn't prescribe The Mindbody Prescription, which might have helped them to heal. The link to the article is at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10740529/
And the blog to which you can add your story or comment is still at:
http://dailynightly.msnbc.com/2006/01/the_mystery_of_.html
Ralph
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Susie
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Posted - 01/07/2006 : 15:33:47
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| Ralph, I made it to the nbc blog as well as someone else touting Sarno. Hopefully some of the other pain sufferers will read our replys and check it out. It couldn't hurt. Good for you, Ralph!! |
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Posted - 01/09/2006 : 05:45:53
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| In fact, there were many pro Sarno postings on the board which were removed. So what's with that? |
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ralphyde
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Posted - 01/09/2006 : 12:06:08
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Not so, Peter.
There are still five comments recommending Dr. Sarno out of all the comments posted to the blog. They are just further down, as the newest comments are at the top.
Anyway, I'm glad that many are there, though I hoped that more of you would post your stories and successes for others to see.
I think the fourth episode of the series on NBC Nightly News is still to come, maybe today (Monday, Jan 9).
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ralphyde
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Posted - 01/10/2006 : 14:52:44
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I don't know if this series will continue or not. But the links to the three segments are still there, and the Blog is still there waiting for your comments.
A few more posts about Dr. Sarno and his success at healing chronic pain sure wouldn't hurt, might bring hope to thousands who had never heard of him, and might even lead to a segment on him and his approach. Here's the blog:
http://dailynightly.msnbc.com/2006/01/the_mystery_of_.html
It took two and a half years of pain for us to even hear of Dr. Sarno and TMS. The more well-known he becomes, the better for all.
Ralph
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