I read his book (http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Back-Pain-Mind-Body-Connection/dp/0446557684/ref=pd_sim_b_2 http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Back-Pain-Mind-Body-Con

I read his book (http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Back-Pain-Mind-Body-Connection/dp/0446557684/ref=pd_sim_b_2 http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Back-Pain-Mind-Body-Connection...) expecting to have a similar reaction. While he doesn't make the strongest scientific case, you are not doing his proposition justice. It's more about people who injure themselves maintaining unconscious tension in areas which leads to stiffness and pain well after the physiological healing has finished, because they fear re-injury. I found some of his advice helpful insofar as it suggests that mindfulness meditation can help ease tension-induced back pain (which I have found to be true for me) and that there is a mental component in overcoming the fear of re-injury and allowing yourself to resume your full range of motion without subconsciously tensing up. As someone who struggles with anxiety from time to time, I can even believe his statement that he's referred some patients to therapy before attempting to treat their back pain.