> Frozen shoulder is almost certainly a manifestation of TMS, at least for some large number of people. For those who understand the mechanism, it's clear that

> Frozen shoulder is almost certainly a manifestation of TMS, at least for some large number of people. For those who understand the mechanism, it's clear that 2020 is going to be a bad year for people in terms of chronic pain. It doesn't need to be. I like Dr. Sarno's work but his thinking around TMS is IMO the weakest part. The main insight is really just the fact that a lot of pain doesn't reliably map to any physical conditions. Beyond that we don't know too much. We can infer the brain is involved but not necessarily how. Dr. Sarno takes a psychoanalytic approach focusing on repressed emotions and so forth. But one can come up with many other explanations. One's ideas about pain itself may be a factor. If deep seated psychological problems were to blame it wouldn't explain how so many people get tremendous relief by simply reading the book.