What is pain neuroscience education and does it work?
Persistent pain is often attributed to tissue damage. Although tissue injury can be an important cause of pain, it doesn’t ...
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Growing research on mind-body pain treatment
If you have lived with chronic pain, you may have been told to look for a damaged structure, identify the ...
Preview - Discover the science behind the mind-body connection
Your body’s pain isn’t just physical. It’s shaped by the story your brain tells. Uncover how neuroscience is ...
New Book - “The Back Pain Cure Workbook”
Pain eventually stops being just a symptom and starts writing your life story. This workbook is your chance to ...
Why treating the whole person produces better outcomes
Medicine has long organized itself around individual body systems, diseases, and specialists. This approach has ...
How mind-body medicine is reshaping chronic pain treatment
If you’ve lived with chronic pain for months or years, you’ve probably discovered that there is rarely a single treatment that ...
Origins of mind-body medicine
The relationship between the mind and the body has fascinated physicians, philosophers and scientists for thousands of years. Yet for much of ...
What’s the role of the nervous system in chronic pain?
Chronic pain is rarely explained by tissue damage alone. Clinicians increasingly recognize that ...
What causes chronic back pain?
If your back pain has persisted for months or even years, it’s natural to assume that something in your spine has ...
Understanding the root causes of chronic back pain
When back pain lingers for months or years, it often leads to a persistent effort to understand its true...
What famous patients credited Dr. John Sarno with their recovery?
Dr. John Sarno built his reputation treating patients with chronic back pain who had exhausted conventional ...
How did Dr. John Sarno’s patients recover from chronic pain?
For thousands of people living with chronic back pain, neck pain and other persistent musculoskeletal ...
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What books did Dr. John Sarno write?
For more than three decades, Dr. John Sarno challenged one of medicine’s most deeply held assumptions that ...
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What is the science behind Dr. John Sarno's mind-body approach?
Chronic pain remains one of the most difficult conditions to treat, largely because it rarely has a single cause. For decades, clinicians have searched for a framework that accounts for the many patients whose pain persists long after tissue damage has healed, or who show no structural abnormality at all
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Is back pain psychological?
If you’ve lived with persistent back pain, you’ve probably encountered two very different explanations. One suggests your pain is ...
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Rethinking everything you have been told about back pain
If you’ve lived with back pain for months or years, you’ve probably heard the same explanations repeatedly. You may have been told ...
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How emotional repression drives physical symptoms
Physical symptoms are typically viewed through a biomedical lens. When pain, fatigue, muscle tension, or ...
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Can stress cause back pain?
Back pain is often explained as a mechanical problem. You may be told that a muscle has tightened, a disc has ...
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Link between emotional stress and physical pain
You may have been told that chronic pain is simply the result of worn joints, damaged discs, tight muscles, or aging ...
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Mind-body medicine versus traditional pain management
Chronic pain remains one of the greatest challenges in modern healthcare. Despite remarkable advances in ...
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What are the most effective treatments for chronic back pain?
Chronic back pain is one of the most common health problems in the world, yet it remains one of the most ...
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Why most back pain treatments fail in the long term
If you’ve lived with back pain for months or years, you’ve probably tried more than one treatment. Perhaps you’ve attended ...
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How do you know if back pain is muscular or structural?
Back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek medical care, yet it remains one of the most misunderstood symptoms in medicine. Many people assume that ...
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Difference between pain and tissue damage
One of the most important discoveries in modern pain science is that pain and tissue damage aren’t the same thing. Most people grow up believing ...