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moose1
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 Posted - 03/02/2006 : 07:17:12
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All,
This morning I heard the first in a series of pieces on back pain on Morning Edition. Of course, it was the same old clap trap about disc pain, facet joints and arthritis. The ultimate message at the end of the program was that doctors don't really know how to treat back pain and patients are left to their own devices regarding "treatment" and surgery. I'm curious to know if they'll touch at all on the mind/body approach. This story really pissed me off because it's all such a pack of lies, and if I were in pain today like I was 5 years ago, I would find this program very depressing. Did anyone else hear this this morning?
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ralphyde
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Posted - 03/02/2006 : 10:20:54
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Yes, I also heard this report on NPR, and was angered by it because there was no mention of Dr. Sarno and his highly successful methods. It is a series that will continue this week. So I went to NPR.org where there is a place for questions for Dr. Weinstein, an "expert" on back surgery at Dartmouth, that may be answered on the air. Here's what I wrote: quote:
Why was there no mention of Dr. John E Sarno of the Howard A Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU, and his treatment of TMS (tension myositis syndrome), which accounts for 90% of chronic back pain and other limb pain, and for which he has a 90% cure rate over decades, has healed tens of thousands of patients, and is still seeing patients at 82 years of age? His book, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, has by itself given healing to millions of back pain sufferers. This is real. This is fact, yet you and other members of the Medical community ignore him and his huge success at healing chronic back pain. Why?
I urge others of you to go to http://www.NPR.org and deluge them with questions.
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Edited by - ralphyde on 03/02/2006 10:35:15 |
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moose1
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Posted - 03/02/2006 : 11:22:59
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Originally posted by ralphyde
[quote]Why was there no mention of Dr. John E Sarno of the Howard A Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU, and his treatment of TMS (tension myositis syndrome), which accounts for 90% of chronic back pain and other limb pain, and for which he has a 90% cure rate over decades, has healed tens of thousands of patients, and is still seeing patients at 82 years of age? His book, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, has by itself given healing to millions of back pain sufferers. This is real. This is fact, yet you and other members of the Medical community ignore him and his huge success at healing chronic back pain. Why?
Yes, I submitted a comment, too, essentially saying the same thing, and aruging that to ingnore the mind/body connection in back pain, or any chronic pain, is a crime. Of course, you can't tell anyone from almighty Dartmouth anything about medicine. They know it all. |
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Jena
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Posted - 03/02/2006 : 13:29:58
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Back pain series on NPR
