How To Deal With Chronic Pain?

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There is this doctor Sarno guy who has the most helpful information I've ever found on pain.

He was a standard pain specialist who realized that what he was doing was helping very few people and the fact that the ideas he was taught and how pain is treated by doctors doesn't actually match up with reality. He tells you how emotions and stress cause physical pain and what to do about it. This has helped me too.

There are tons of examples he gives of how the treatments don't match the facts. For example doctors frequently blame thing that look off on imaging as the source of pain. However there is zero correlation for most pains with how bad images look. People without pain also have images that look just as bad. In particular with back pain everyone will have a spine that looks bad if they reached an old enough age, yet most of them do not have pain. So an image that looks bad is meaningless. Other examples being fake surgery has worked as well as real surgery for treating knee problems, or that people who are not 'educated' in poor countries experience less pain issues despite a lifestyle that puts more physical stress on their body. The fact that people often get pain when stressful things happen, but no doctors ever ask about that, or looks for that as a cause.

I've linked to 4 videos that go into this in depth by another doctor trained by him.

He uses the terms (TMS) Tension myositis syndrome, and mind body syndrome (MBS) as the terms for people who have physical symptoms such as pain from emotions, and stress. (So you don't go huh what is he talking about?)

Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-mP2wqafnI (pay attention especially to how he shows how expectations of the pain often create the pain, and those who don't know they 'should' have the pain don't have!)

Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2G_QWFZ6F4

Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9T9imHHwD8

Video 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cccbHXWeo9g

[Kevin Dunlop]

I had some cronic pain that I finally learned how to fix. I was always unconsciously holding one side of my shoulder up. I had to realize that I was working all the time without knowing it. I had to straighten my posture and remember to force myself to keep it that way until it changed perminantly. I had to stretch the muscles deeply and learn to relax and imagine breathing fresh energy into the painful areas. Do you know why you have the pain?