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miggy
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 Posted - 12/03/2008 : 10:12:55
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Hello all,
I'm new to this forum. This might be long winded so bear with me. For the last year, maybe year and a half, I've had minor lower back issues. I am a avid surfer and am in very decent shape. But I also work behind a desk which for the last 9 years as kept me seated for 8-10 hours a day (it's my own business, so I'm highly self motivated and driven, hence the long hours). About 3 months ago I received an offer to go on a Surf Trip of my life to Fiji so I began training which included some very aggressive yoga poses.(I wanted to increase my flexibility). After a few classes my back and right hip had some pain. I went surfing and did a maneuver which really hurt my lower back. Over the course of that day the pain increased to the most brutal pain I have ever felt, siatiaica down my right leg and butt check. No sleep, hard to move, want to die kind of pain. This pain continued for a month. I started with the Lose the Back Pain program and Egoscue which both theorize that I have muscle imbalances due to the sitting, shortened hamstrings, strong quads, pelvis that is tilted forward which put pressure on the disk and caused it to buldge/hurinate). I've begun to improve to the point where I can walk a little straighter and less pain. I also read Sarno's book and it really hit home with me and I've started to work his "think emotional". I cried about my pain, I told my subconscious that I realize it's trying to hide my stress and emotional issues. Still I have pain. Here's my question: I am struggling with the conflict between a real physical issue and "TMS". Sarno says to stop all treatment and, in my case, I believe he would say I should go surfing now, but is there not a real possiblity that I could really F___ myself? There has to be some physical component to my injury and thus I could really set my self back? Please help me resolve this conflict, I leave tomorrow and am packing my board bag!
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scottjmurray
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Posted - 12/03/2008 : 15:09:54
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only you can make the decision whether or not it's tms. i remember how difficult and scary it was for me to stop trigger point therapy, but it was the best decision i've ever made. i'm unburdened by the medical community's nonsense now. really though, it's up to you to make the call. not us.
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armchairlinguist
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Posted - 12/04/2008 : 09:00:06
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There has to be some physical component to my injury and thus I could really set my self back?
No, there doesn't have to be. Like Scott said, we can't say, it's up to you, although I'd go ahead to say the way you describe your pain progression sounds classic to me. You identify triggering events, but don't really say how those events created the pain -- it's like you're assuming that you can hurt yourself easily by doing yoga and surfing, when in fact you've surfed for a long time and many people do yoga with no issues. And you talk about the pain increasing further during a day even though you don't talk about more triggering events. Also, you seem to think that working at a desk is bad for you - it isn't. Our bodies are tough and adapt, especially if we keep them in generally good shape by being active outside of work. And buying into the Egoscue stuff won't help either, it's basically BS. You might have imbalances or not, but most people do and most people aren't in pain.
It takes a while to start thinking about pain in a TMS way and throw off the injury worries. If TMS 'hit home' for you I'd guess it's just taking you some time to adjust thinking.
You have a critical time to decide because of your trip schedule. You might want to go and think TMS and have fun; you might want to not go because you aren't sure yet and are worried about increasing your association of activity and pain. Trust yourself and take the decision that feels right. I don't think Sarno would insist that you throw yourself into activity (he advocates a gradual approach in cases where pain doesn't go away immediately), but he would say you are capable of it.
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johnaccardi
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Posted - 12/04/2008 : 14:44:51
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mala
Hong Kong
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Posted - 12/04/2008 : 18:10:05
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A lot of people hurt themselves doing Yoga. It's crazy but yoga was never meant to be one of those things you do in a class of 20 and many people who are teaching these classes have very little training themselves. It doesn't matter how fit you are you just can't go in and start doing aggressive poses.
Anyway assume that you have hurt yourself so give yrself time to heal and don't push it. Egoscue is good. You should heal in due course. That is where Sarno comes in. He says your body is very capable of healing itself and that is what you need to believe. Perhaps you are getting anxious that you are not getting better as soon as you had hoped. Perhaps you are putting pressure on yrself that you are not as fit as you though you were. These thoughts may be actually preventing you from getting better. These kinds of thoughts may be causing more tension.
ACL might disagree with me but I do think you need to relax and allow your body to recover first.
Good Luck & Good Health
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Real Injury VS TMS?
