I am fairly new to discovering TMS and have been reading all Sarno's books and starting to do the work. I am trying to stop focusing on the physical, but have one question stuck in my head. The question I have is about the lack of blood/oxygen that Sarno mentions causes pain. Would this lack of blood flow/oxygen show up on a circulation study? The reason I ask is that I recently had a MRI that studied blood flow and circulation and it came up normal, the day I had it I was having a really bad pain day in my one foot, which is where my pain is. In a person with TMS, would lack of blood flow/poor circulation show in a circulation study? Just curious! I believe I have TMS as I meet most of the "criteria", but still trying to convince my whole being I have TMS!!
The oxygen deprivation Dr. Sarno talks about is not a measurable reduction in blood flow. It takes only a miniscule drop of oxygen to muscle or nerve tissue to introduce symptoms.
Also keep in mind that this mechanism is really just a theory and has never been proven in a lab. The exact mechanism the brain uses could be different, perhaps something beyond our current comprehension of human physiology. Luckily, that doesn't matter. We just need to believe that it happens; we don't need to understand the details of how.
Blood Circulation
Posted - 07/10/2006 : 11:51:29
