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Fox
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 Posted - 12/16/2015 : 12:54:24
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| I'm a poster from way back but I haven't visited the forum for quite a while because my sciatica has been MUCH improved and I attribute that to Sarno. I had 3 laminectomies and one spinal fusion many years ago with no improvement in the original problem - sciatica of the left butt and leg/foot. Also, I had every other possible procedure and therapy before I really turned my attention to Sarno...One question for the readers - because I am starting to drift into the oppressive morass of structural/physical explanation...I was in karate for 10 years. I never returned after the sciatica hit (over 30 years ago) but I still love to spar around gently with my college age son (I do leave out the kicks nowadays). However, I can't seem to punch using the rear hand without turning on the sciatica for hours or days. That's whether I am in an orthodox or southpaw stance. I am fine throwing lead punches - you know - jabs, hooks, or back-fists. I realize throwing a "right cross" puts a lot of twist and torque on your spine as you are "closing the door" with your hips. The ridiculous thing is - I can feel the pain (although it is mild pain) in my leg BEFORE I throw the "forbidden" punch - when I am just thinking about throwing it. However, if I do throw the punch I usually get intense pain (the same pain I feel just thinking about throwing the punch but much amplified and more spread out - like now involving the butt and not just the leg and more pronounced in the ankle and foot)...Now, it seems like the explanation must be TMS conditioning in both instances, but my son threw me a curve ball. My son said, yes, the pain that occurs upon thinking of throwing the punch is obviously TMS conditioning. He then added that the more intense pain after actually throwing the punch could be structural - with a TMS overlay - since I had all that back surgery. Like all good TMSers, I am just a bit OCD, so now I can't get his explanation out of my head. Could it be right? Should I continue throwing the "banned" punches via Fred Amir challenge mode or just accept that this is one small area in my life that I need to avoid and count my blessings. |
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Fox
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Posted - 12/16/2015 : 13:38:36
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| More detail/overthinking? - If I choose to not throw the rear hand but still light spar with my son, I can still use the rear hand effectively for defense - just not offense - but then I am not giving my son the "full experience" of sparring/providing effective defense and I feel uncomfortable showing him my "weakness". (He puts no real pressure on me to throw the rear hand.) |
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tennis tom
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Posted - 12/16/2015 : 16:52:02
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Sarno says the back is strong--it's the mind that's weak. Your son is right. When are you going to act your age and play sports for mature adults?--like tennis or demolition derby.
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TAKE THE HOLMES-RAHE STRESS TEST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_and_Rahe_stress_scale
Some of my favorite excerpts from _THE DIVIDED MIND_ :
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2605
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional." Author Unknown
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” – Plato
"Happy People Are Happy Putters." Frank Nobilo, Golf Analyst
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." Mark Twain and Balto
"The hot-dog is the noblest of dogs; it feeds the hand that bites it." Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter
"...the human emotional system was not designed to endure the mental rigors of a tennis match." Dr. Allen Fox
"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise" - Thomas Gray
"All my friends in Los Angeles are the sensitive type. They all have like all the diseases like Chronic Fatigue, Epstien Barr, Fibromyalgia. Like all the diseases where the only symptoms seem to be you had a really crappy childhood and at the prospect of full time work ya feel kinda achy and tired."
Posted by Skizzik @ TMSHelp from comedian Maria Bamford
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"If it ends with "itis" or "algia" or "syndrome" and doctors can't figure out what causes it, then it might be TMS." Dave the Mod
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TMS PRACTITIONERS:
John Sarno, MD
400 E 34th St, New York, NY 10016
(212) 263-6035
Dr. Sarno is now retired, if you call this number you will be referred to his associate Dr. Rashbaum.
"...there are so many things little and big that are tms, I wouldn't have time to write about all of them": Told to icelikeaninja by Dr. Sarno
Here's the TMS practitioners list from the TMS Help Forum:
http://www.tmshelp.com/links.htm
Here's a list of TMS practitioners from the TMS Wiki:
http://tmswiki.org/ppd/Find_a_TMS_Doctor_or_Therapist
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Fox
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Posted - 12/19/2015 : 13:36:44
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| Thanks, Tennis Tom, it's good to read your posts again. I hope you are still participating in your favorite sport...What I really was asking about was the second instance - when I actually throw the rear hand - and I get worse pain. (I realize the first instance - mild pain generated by anticipation of specific feared activity - must be completely TMS conditioning.) In regard to throwing the rear hand, can it be that I actually have a structural defect in the lower back per the surgeries and this is the cause of the pain, physical in nature, perhaps exaggerated by TMS conditioning fears (that's what I meant by overlay), rather than this worse pain being brain-generated/TMS (autonomic nervous system pinching off blood flow to disc area). |
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