Healing Back Pain (Can Howard Stern's Doctor Help Rush Limbaugh?)

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Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by John Sarno — Dr. John E. Sarno, author of the revolutionary book Mind Over Back Pain, is a medical pioneer whose program has helped thousands of patients overcome their back conditions — without drugs or dangerous surgery. Now, using his latest research into TMS (Tension Myositis Syndrome), Dr. Sarno goes one step further: after identifying stress and other psychological factors in back pain, he demonstrates how many of his patients have then gone on to heal themselves without exercise or other physical therapy. Find out:
· Why self motivated and successful people are prone to TMS
· How anxiety and repressed anger trigger muscle spasms
· How people “train themselves” to experience back pain
· How you may get relief from back pain
· How you may get relief from back pain within two to six weeks by recognizing TMS and its causesWith case histories and the results of in-depth mind-body research, Dr. Sarno describes how patients recognize the emotional roots of their TMS and sever the connections between mental and physical pain and how, just by reading this book, you may start recovering from back pain today. (an ‘Owner Exclusive’ eBook — requires activated MS Reader)
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Sample of Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

Introduction

This book is the successor to Mind Over Back Pain, which was published in 1984. It described a medical disorder known as the Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS), which I have had reason to believe is the major cause of the common syndromes of pain involving the neck, shoulders, back, buttocks and limbs. In the years since that first publication I have further developed and clarified my concepts about how to diagnose and treat TMS, hence the necessity for this book.

Over the years the increasing incidence of these pain syndromes has created a public health problem of impressive proportions. One continues to see the statistic that somewhere around 80 percent of the population have a history of one of these painful conditions. An article in Forbes magazine in August 1986 reported that $56 billion are spent annually to deal with the consequences of this ubiquitous medical disorder. It is the first cause of worker absenteeism in this country and ranks second behind respiratory infections as a reason for a doctor visit.

All this has happened in the past thirty years. Why? After a few million years of evolution, has the American back suddenly become incompetent? Why are so many people prone to back injury? And why has the medical profession proven so helpless to stem the epidemic?

It is this book’s purpose to answer those and many other questions about this widespread problem. The thesis will be advanced that, like all epidemics, this one is the result of medicine’s failure to recognize the nature of the disease, that is, to make an accurate diagnosis. The plague ravaged the world because no one knew anything about bacteriology or epidemiology at the time. It may be hard to believe that highly sophisticated twentieth-century medicine cannot properly identify the cause of something so simple and common as these pain disorders but physicians and medical researchers are, after all, still human and, therefore, not all-knowing and, most important, subject to the enduring weakness of bias.

The pertinent bias here is that these common pain syndromes must be the result of structural abnormalities of the spine or chemically or mechanically induced deficiencies of muscle. Of equal importance is another bias held by conventional medicine that emotions do not induce physiologic change. Experience with TMS contradicts both biases. The disorder is a benign (though painful) physiologic aberration of soft tissue (not the spine), and it is caused by an emotional process.

I first appreciated the magnitude of this problem in 1965 when I joined the staff of what is now known as the Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University Medical Center as director of outpatient services. It was my first introduction to large numbers of patients with neck, shoulder, back and buttock pain. Conventional medical training had taught me that these pains were primarily due to a variety of structural abnormalities of the spine, most commonly arthritic and disc disorders, or to a vague group of muscle conditions attributed to poor posture, underexercise, overexertion and the like. Pain in the legs or arms was presumed due to compression (pinching) of nerves. However, it was not at all clear how these abnormalities actually produced the pain.

The rationale for the treatment prescribed was equally perplexing. Treatment included injections, deep heat in the form of ultrasound, massage and exercise.

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Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by John Sarno — Dr. John E. Sarno, author of the revolutionary book Mind Over Back Pain, is a medical pioneer whose program has helped thousands of patients overcome their back conditions — without drugs or dangerous surgery. Now, using his latest research into TMS (Tension Myositis Syndrome), Dr. Sarno goes one step further: after identifying stress and other psychological factors in back pain, he demonstrates how many of his patients have then gone on to heal themselves without exercise or other physical therapy. Find out: · Why self motivated and successful people are prone to TMS · How anxiety and repressed anger trigger muscle spasms · How people “train themselves” to experience back pain · How you may get relief from back pain · How you may get relief from back pain within two to six weeks by recognizing TMS and its causesWith case histories and the results of in-depth mind-body research, Dr. Sarno describes how patients recognize the emotional roots of their TMS and sever the connections between mental and physical pain and how, just by reading this book, you may start recovering from back pain today. (an ‘Owner Exclusive’ eBook — requires activated MS Reader)      Microsoft Reader eBook: $9.95 / $9.95 (retail $9.95) Put in Cart or Buy it Now!

The Readers Say…

“If you’re suffering from an ailment that is difficult to diagnose or not responding to conventional or even alternative cures, read Dr. Sarno’s book.”
— Green Living

“John Sarno has changed my life and the lives of everyone to whom I have recommended him. He is a true miracle worker.”
— Anne Bancroft

“Dr. Sarno describes in clearly written and understandable language how emotions influence and cause illness… He has cured thousands with debilitating chronic back pain and now offers curative approaches to other painful conditions… I recommend this book highly.”
— Benjamin J. Sadock, M.D., Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Medical Center

“Dr. Sarno has had great success in treating TMS simply by explaining to patients the true nature of their pain. I’m convinced that Dr. Sarno is right and that all chronic back pain should be considered TMS until proved otherwise.”
— Dr. Andrew Weil, author of 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

“My life was filled with excruciating back and shoulder pain until I applied Dr. Sarno’s principles, and in a matter of weeks my back pain disappeared. I never suffered a single symptom again… I owe Dr. Sarno my life.”
— Howard Stern

“For fifteen years, my life revolved around my back. I took time off from work, conducted meetings lying on the floor, and slept with ice bags. Could this be psychogenic? I had considered Dr. Sarno’s idea preposterous, but ten years ago I was talked into seeing him. I haven’t had back problems since. If Dr. Sarno is right about other psychogenic pain, America is wasting billions of dollars. What a tragedy.”
— John Stossel, correspondent, 20/20

[PJ-Comix]

Can Howard Stern's back doctor help Rush Limbaugh get rid of his back pain? And, remember, it wasn't only Howard who was cured by Dr. John Sarno. As you can see, reputable people such as Anne Bancroft and John Stossel also had their back problems cured by Dr. Sarno. It's definitely worth a shot for Rush to consult Dr. Sarno to get rid of the back and neck problems that caused him to use the painkillers.

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[lelio]

When are my royality checks coming in for the picture of my back?

[PJ-Comix]

I remember when Howard Stern had HORRIBLE back pain. He had to lie on the floor of his studio. Then he consulted Dr. John Sarno and within weeks his back pain was totally gone. Howard was so happy that he dedicated his first book, Private Parts, to Dr. Sarno. Maybe it's a longshot but it can't hurt for Rush to consult Dr. Sarno.

[taildragger]

PJ

How about hookign Rush up with Jerry Lewis's Doctor as well and his Pain Blocker Electric Implant?

[PJ-Comix]

Calling Dr. Sarno!

[PJ-Comix]

How about hookign Rush up with Jerry Lewis's Doctor as well and his Pain Blocker Electric Implant?

Dr. Sarno has helped a lot of people WITHOUT surgery or drugs. Rush might want to check him out. Maybe you don't agree with Dr. Sarno's methods or theories but if it helps Rush, who are we to argue with the results?

[COUNTrecount]

Twenty years ago I was a patient of Dr. Sarno's. Before he would see me he had me screened by his nurse to see if I fit the profile of someone he could help.

He gave me an extensive exam and spent a lot of time answering my questions about what I thought was causing my pain.

I was required to attend "Back School" for six weeks at the Rusk Rehabilitaion Center in NY.This part of the treatment consisted of sitting in a large theater, filled with other patients, some that had come in wheel chairs.We were lectured by Dr. Sarno, who explained the physical symptoms of back pain, and what caused the excruciating pain.


We learned to understand that when the pain hit we could control it with our minds, using the information we had learned.


After six weeks those in wheelchairs walked out of the lecture hall.


Dr. Sarno said that when one of his patients has a bad back attack he would prescribe very strong mediation to break the cycle of pain. He said that after the pain stopped none of his patients became addicted.


I am currently pain free, but when I have had back attacks I have been able to control the pain with over-the-counter medication.

[PJ-Comix]

So would you recommend that Rush consult Dr. Sarno?

[COUNTrecount]

Rush needs to deal with the psychological reasons that caused his addiction before he deals with the physical cause of his back pain.

I hope he gets all the help that he needs.

[jwalsh07]

I don't know if Sarno can help but I can. Tell Rush to stop playing golf, it puts tremendous stress on the back.

[ravinson]

I saw that Stossel report and it was pretty convincing. Rush may be subconsciously convincing himself that he has back pain so he can justify taking pain pills and getting the euphoria they induce.

[PJ-Comix]

Rush needs to deal with the psychological reasons that caused his addiction before he deals with the physical cause of his back pain.

The reason for the addiction is simple---back pain. So if Dr. Sarno can get rid of Rush's back pain there will be no reason for Rush to take painkillers. BTW, do you think it would have helped if Rush had consulted Dr. Sarno when he first had the back pains and before he took the painkillers?

[PJ-Comix]

I had some horrible back pains after lifting a heavy air conditioner. The pains lasted about 3 years with really painful back pain attacks at least a couple of times a month. Once it hit me so hard in a supermarket that I had to lean on the shopping cart just to stand up. Then about 10 years ago, the back pains simply vanished and haven't had them since.

[gdani]

Tell Rush to stop playing golf, it puts tremendous stress on the back.

Rush's frequent golfing & his own admission of being an addict is what makes the "tremendous pain he's in" angle smell fishy.

[COUNTrecount]

Due to Rush's overuse of very strong narcotics he needs to go to drug rehab to get detoxed.

Perhaps if he had gone to Dr. Sarno when his pain started he might have avoided addiction.

Rush is addicted, and sitting in a lecture hall learning about muscle spasms and how to control them using his mind won't change his immediate and very dangerous need for drugs.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Is there any evidence of Limbaugh's back pain?

[uncbob]

Rush is addicted, and sitting in a lecture hall learning about muscle spasms and how to control them using his mind won't change his immediate and very dangerous need for drugs.

And if he has a disk pressing on a nerve and not spasms the pain ain't going away with mind control

[budwiesest]

Then about 10 years ago, the back pains simply vanished and haven't had them since.

My back problem started in the third grade when a fifth grader stabbed me in the lumbar region with a stick and dislocated/ruptured a disk. Since then, my experience with back pain has been all over the map.

Physical activity seems to help(laying around and taking meds has never been an option for me). My last episode was in June '88 which is easily remembered. I've gone this long without another episode by remaining physical on the job and taking precautions in the lifting of heavy objects.