Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

This book presents research on back pain and Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS), offering an approach to pain relief without drugs, exercise, or surgery. Dr. Sarno's program has helped thousands of patients with chronic back conditions. The book teaches how to identify stress and psychological factors that cause back pain and how to heal yourself and remain symptom-free. It explains why self-motivated and successful people are prone to TMS, how anxiety and repressed anger trigger muscle spasms, and how people condition themselves to accept back pain as inevitable. Using case histories and mind-body research, the book shows how to recognize the emotional roots of TMS and sever the connections between mental and physical pain to begin recovering from back pain.