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MAbbott
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 Posted - 12/14/2009 : 09:15:15
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There hasn't been much on the forum about Metatarsalgia as TMS. Sarno mentions it in MindBody Perscription.
For me, it came on after doing some severe downhill hiking and then ignoring it. I also developed an ingrown nail which exasperated it. But it persists, making me suspicious. It is a common condition of pain, (feels like a bruise) on the ball of the foot.
Do readers have any feedback about this?
Thanks,
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Twig
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Posted - 12/16/2009 : 22:51:36
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Happened to me 3 days before an important marathon 11 months ago. I thought I had just stepped on a rock, gotten a little bruise. Ran the marathon pain free - desperately sore the next day and for the next couple months. I kept running, had 3 opinions, 1 for a stress fracture/2 just bruise etc. And still I just ran, tried various orthotics and padding -- then my list of aches and pains shifted to other areas and the foot stayed the same.
In June/July when I read an article in Runners World about a fellow who consulted with Dr. Sarno -- the light bulbs lit up the sky over my little abode!!! Over the next 2 months I virtually eliminated all my nagging aches and pains (including a doozy of a shin splint which erupted on my last long run before my first 50 mile ultra marathon)
Completed the ultra with NO sign of the excruciating pains I ran through all spring and summer. And although I train fairly hard and expect some soreness -- I have been able to mentally dissolve every emerging pain, I just put my attention to the offending area, offhandedly say "you're just TMS, there is nothing to indicate I have an injury..." then I ask myself what stressor or mental dilemma is bothering me, ruminate on that, and the pain disappears, either gradually or right away!!
I even think some bouts of IBS were my minds way of trying some last ditch efforts to distract me when the more mechanical problems weren't doing the trick...
JMHO and YMMV
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