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marsha
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 Posted - 09/05/2009 : 14:40:02
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On August 25th my husband underwent complete hip replacement surgery. He had been suffering from groin pain for about two years and life was becoming increasingly difficult for him. He couldn't golf or play racquetball and even taking a walk was too painful. I had , long ago , given up trying to get him to see the mind body connection even though he had attended Dr. Sarno's lectures with me.
He came out of the surgery quite well..with no pain at all. Amazing, don't you think considering the taking out of his hip joint and inserting a titanium hip joint into his femur and screwing the hip socket into his pelvis..No pain. His scar is about 12" long and was stapled neatly together with abut 24 staples. After spending 3 days in the hospital he was transferred to an Acute Care rehab where he spent 6 days. He has been home for 3 days now and is walking with a cane..NO Walker for him.
Although he aches a bit after doing his exercises he is "pain free" and has not experienced a recurrence of his "hip pain'.
OK, don't go thinking I have changed my mind about the mind body connection..I have not! This for me is just a further example of the power of the brain.
He has also had rotator cuff surgery and arthroscopic knee surgery.
We went for a walk today..him with his cane and me with my 2 feet. He felt fine and I thought I would die.
I walked through the pain..know it is psychological based, talked positive to myself..HE is good I am a wreck.
The mind is a powerful thing.
Marsha |
Edited by - marsha on 09/05/2009 19:15:09 |
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flutterby
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/06/2009 : 02:52:00
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Hi Marsha
Someone I know had both hips replaced in the few course of a few months a couple of years ago and was immediately pain free like your husband.
I think we have to be a little bit careful about putting all chronic pain down to TMS. |
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marsha
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Posted - 09/06/2009 : 06:51:47
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Hi Judy,
I agree not everything is TMS but he had no pain at all. Not from the incision,nor from the 24 staples , not from the screws drilled into his bone and none from the removal of the hip joint which required sawing away at his femur and drilling into the bone to insert the hip joint. He is swollen and black and blue..No pain? How come?
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scd1833
USA
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Posted - 09/06/2009 : 10:04:08
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| he's not having any pain because he "believes"(knows) that he has been "fixed", and if he believes(knows) it, it's true! |
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flutterby
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/06/2009 : 10:55:54
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quote:
Originally posted by scd1833
he's not having any pain because he "believes"(knows) that he has been "fixed", and if he believes(knows) it, it's true!
That was certainly the case with the person I know - absolute and unshakeable faith in the medical profession! |
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The Mind is a Powerful Thing
