Healing Back Pain promises permanent elimination of back pain without drugs, surgery, or exercise. It should have been titled Understanding TMS Pain, because it discusses one particular cause of back pain-Tension
Myositis Syndrome (TMS)-and isn't really a program for self-treatment, with only five pages of action plan (and many more pages telling why conventional methods don't work). According to John E. Sarno, M.D., TMS is the major cause of pain in the back, neck, shoulders, buttocks, and limbs-and it is caused not by
structural abnormalities but by the mind's effort to repress emotions. He's not saying that your pain is all in your head; rather, he's saying that the battle going on in…
This is my first online book review ever. I'm only taking the time because this book saved my health. I was a total non-believer regarding the whole concept of
psychosomatic injuries before this book… I was introduced to Dr. Sarno's method not by the book, but by a 20/20 piece by John Stossel 7-8 years ago. He described how debilitating his pain was, and how it was completely gone after following…
