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Chronic TMS/PPD Pain
Acute injury and disease can cause pain. However, some people experience chronic pain that is medically unexplained. And, conversely, some structural abnormalities observed in diagnostic imaging are not accompanied by any pain. |
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For example, advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has enabled clinicians to identify even small changes in disc structure. However, even if a disc injury is observed, it may not be the cause of your pain. A study of over 1,200 healthy adults from the ages of 20’s to 70’s revealed that most people have disc degeneration, disc bulging, or disc protrusion without pain and that the percentage of disc abnormality increased with age (Brinjikji and others, 2015).
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John Sarno, M.D., author of numerous books dealing with chronic pain, contends much back and other pain is instead caused by the subconscious mind in an effort to keep you from thinking about or dealing with unpleasant or painful thoughts and emotions. That is NOT to say the pain is not real or “all in the patients' head”! No. The pain is very real. Rather, according to Sarno, when the emotions are repressed it triggers physiologic changes that cause pain in the physical body. He termed this tension myositis/myoneural syndrome (TMS), and subsequent researchers have termed it psychophysiologic pain disorder (PPD). |
Anyone can experience TMS/PPD. By constantly pushing themselves, self-motivated and successful people are often quite susceptible. After identifying stress, repressed anger, and other psychological factors in back pain, Sarno described the means by which many of his patients went on to heal themselves without exercise or other physical therapy - often within just a few weeks, in some cases within just days!
Overcoming TMS/PPD
With Resilience Relief™ Pain Self-Management, you will learn sensory tracking and other means by which to reframe perceptions of pain signals and other mind-body techniques many people find effective to relieve stress & anxiety and specific techniques to help recognize the emotional roots of TMS/PPD... and sever the connections between mental and physical pain!
Sessions can be focused solely on pain relief, or they can be an add-on integrated into sessions focused on other wellness modalities.
Overcoming TMS/PPD
With Resilience Relief™ Pain Self-Management, you will learn sensory tracking and other means by which to reframe perceptions of pain signals and other mind-body techniques many people find effective to relieve stress & anxiety and specific techniques to help recognize the emotional roots of TMS/PPD... and sever the connections between mental and physical pain!
Sessions can be focused solely on pain relief, or they can be an add-on integrated into sessions focused on other wellness modalities.
