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Dr. John Sarno's ideas on chronic pain -- Miracle of psychology, or woo-woo foolishness?
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[quote:BarbaricYawpSounder:MV80OTU0NDg0XzkwNTk5MzE1X0I4ODJDNTNC] [quote:91GMC:MV80OTU0NDg0XzkwNTk4NzgxX0QxOTg3NUQy] years ago, I got a chance to talk to the then-president of the national association of medical hypnotherapists, who had a practice in Manhattan he told me that by using hypnosis, doctors can reduce medication in patients with chronic pain by 25 to 30 percent [/quote] I believe you. The mind is very powerful. I mean, we have all heard of psychosomatic illness...but we usually think of that as being in nutty people or attention seekers. Looks like Sarno is saying MOST people with back pain have fallen for the idea that it is caused by slipped discs, etc -- which everybody has -- and it's all just bunk the medical establishment made up to get our money from unnecessary surgeries. I will say that the few people I know who have had back surgeries never had their pain go away due to these procedures...so there might be something to this. [/quote]
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There are no posts on GLP about the late Dr. John Sarno and his approach to healing chronic back pain (and other types of pain).
Pain originates in the mind, so the fix lies in talking the mind down off the ledge. That's the basic idea. Becoming aware of this, he said, causes pain to stop.
I really respect John Stoessel, and he swears Sarno cured his back pain of many years just by talking to him. He said in an interview that he's embarassed by the fact that it worked, especially since he's always been so rational and a skeptic of most woo-woo stuff.
Howard Stern and Larry David are two other high profile people who have spoken out about Sarno as if he were a miracle worker.
Have any of you read his books? Any success stories out there to report, or is this all foolishness?
I welcome all feedback and/or related discussions about healing back pain WITHOUT big pharma or surgical interventions.
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