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My wife had serious back issues. MRI showed multiple issues with lower discs etc...surgery was being pushed strongly. She wasn't keen because her sister's surge
by scandox 3y ago
My wife had serious back issues. MRI showed multiple issues with lower discs etc...surgery was being pushed strongly. She wasn't keen because her sister's surgery had not really helped much.
She found Dr Sarno. To this day I'm not entirely on board with it...but whatever went on it worked. The surgeons looking at her MRI were totally baffled. It still showed all the issues and as one said "you shouldn't be able to even walk around without pain".
One thing Sarno says which I find interesting: he claims that the correlation between MRI imagery and pain is very weak. In other words you have people with a clean MRI who are in agony and you have people with all kinds of issues showing who are absolutely fine.
- d0mine 3y ago> correlation between MRI imagery and pain is very weak It is not just some fringe opinion from a single doctor e.g., here's recommendations from Barbell Medicine https://youtu.be/mdwj5ORPmX0?si=DOVVJCGgLe_U0GDT https://youtu.be/mdwj5ORPmX0?si=DOVVJCGgLe_U0GDT
- _cenw 3y agoA lot of people have bulging disks without pain. About half in this study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8208267/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8208267/ So the MRI should be treated as a correlating factor only. No bulging disk and pain is probably the more immediately useful finding, because you take out a likely cause.
- slekker 3y agoPersonal/anectodal/non-scientific: having read his book, I understood that in my specific case my wrist pain was psychosomatic in nature and the pain itself could be caused by blood flow restriction. Just being aware of this and what may be causing it (stress, anxiety) helped alleviate the pain. I imagined the veins in my wrist expanding and allowing more blood to flow through it.