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pericakralj
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 Posted - 06/04/2007 : 12:35:30
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Hy everybody.
Just wanted to ask did anybody expirienced symptoms to disappear when engaging some physical activity?
I just realised whenever i do any kind of physical acivity my symtoms are gone.I played tennis for two hours yesterday and totaly forgot about TMS.I had great time paying and after we finished i stared to think abot it again and symptoms came back but they were much more smaller then usuall.
Does anybody know why this happens? |
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Stryder
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Posted - 06/04/2007 : 15:37:36
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| Yes, this is often the case if your TMS-induced pain is not too severe, meaning that physical activity does not "hurt". Your enjoyment of playing tennis is acting as the distraction to the harmful repressed emotions. Since you are distracted (even in a positive way), your brain is not playing the movie of you obsessing about thinking out your pain. Also, the Good Doctor has written that activity increases the blood flow to your tissues, and that additional blood flow reduces the oxygen deprivation that is theorized to cause the muscle pain. Take care, -Stryder |
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shawnsmith
Czech Republic
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Posted - 06/04/2007 : 15:44:31
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Distressingly, my case is the opposite. When I particpate in physcial activity my symptoms increase in intensity:
Note that Dr Marc Sopher wrote in his book:
"On the flip side, it is important not to be discouraged if symptoms
arise during the course of an activity. It simply means that more
mental work must be done. It is easy for fear and its compatriot,
doubt, to creep in. “Maybe it isn’t TMS, maybe I do have a physical
problem” are common thoughts. The best advice is to simply
acknowledge this fear as part of the old conditioning, of the brain’s
strategy to have you believe there is a physical problem." - Pg 173
Pericakralj asks if anybody knows why is it so that in the course of a vigorous activity, such as tennis, the TMS pain would actually go away, which is the opposite outcome from the above quote from Dr. Sopher. My opinion is that in the course of the activity the person is taking their mind off their symptoms as well as facing and challenging the fear of physical activity and the pain backs off when the person shows he/ she means business. Increased blood flow, as a result of the activity is a physical explanation, but. for TMS purposes, we should look behind the pyschological factors leading to decrease of pain. Burning off stress may also be a factor.
*******
Sarno-ize it!
Do you have a pain-prone personality?
http://www.bradyinstitute.com/aboutBook/painProne.asp |
Edited by - shawnsmith on 06/04/2007 16:46:11 |
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pericakralj
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Posted - 06/04/2007 : 16:19:08
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| Stryder,i think the same way you do.THX for replay. |
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