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John Sarno, MD
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Dr. John Sarno is an American doctor and professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. He is also the attending physicians at the Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Medical Center. In 1950, Dr. Sarno graduated medical school from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He then worked on an internship at USPAS Hospital from 1950-1951. From 1960-1961, Dr. Sarno was in Residency Training at Babies Hospital Columbia Presbyterian, after which he did a clinical fellowship at the NYU Medical Center in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation from 1961-1963.He became the Director of the Outpatient Department at the Rusk Institute in 1965. Dr. Sarno has been board certified in Rehabilitation Medicine since 1965.
Dr. Sarno began his career using the standard treatment protocols for patients with chronic neck, shoulder, and back pain. However in the 1970s he started to doubt the diagnosis and treatments for these conditions since his patients were not getting better. Upon further research into his patients, Dr. Sarno found that 88% of his patients had a history of tension or migraine headaches, heartburn, hiatus hernia, irritable bowel syndrome, asthma, eczema, and a variety of other disorders that were commonly thought to be caused by tension. He also noticed that most of his patients tended to be hardworking, conscientious, compulsive, and perfectionist; traits that he thought might lead to unconscious rage. Sarno then developed the theory that repressed rage and emotions can cause physical manifestations, such as pain, to distract the conscious mind from recognizing feelings it may find unpleasant. Dr. Sarno called the condition Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS)[2]. In an interview with Larry King, Dr. Sarno stated that at the time of coining the term TMS, he thought that the condition dealt only with the muscles, however he later found that it covers a wide range of chronic symptoms. During the interview Sarno stated, "If I were putting a name on it now, it would be somewhat different."[3]
Since the 1970s when Sarno first developed TMS, through today, Sarno claims to have treated over 11,000 patients. He estimates that he has cured over 90% of these patients. Some of his most notable patients include, Howard Stern, Anne Bancroft, 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel, and television writer Janette Barber.[4] Howard Stern was so pleased with Dr. Sarno that he added a blurb to the back of Sarno's book, The Mindbody Prescription, in which Stern states, "My life was filled with excruciating back and shoulder pain until I applied Dr. Sarno's principles, and in a matter of weeks my back pain disappeared. I never suffered a single symptom again...I owe Dr. Sarno my life."[5]
Dr. Sarno has published four books about TMS which are Mind Over Back Pain, Healing Back Pain, The Mindbody Prescription, and The Divided Mind. He has also published several journal articles including Psychosomatic concepts in chronic pain, and Psychosomatic avoidance of conflict in back pain. As the originator of TMS, Dr. Sarno has also trained many physicians and therapists on how to diagnosis and treat patients with TMS.
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[edit] Contact Info
Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine
New York, NY 10016
Books / Video / Website1 / Website2
[edit] Books
- Mind over Back Pain, 1982
- Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, 1991.
- The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain, 1998.
- The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders, 2006.
[edit] Media Appearances
- 20/20 Segment and Interview with Dr. John Sarno, 1999
- Larry King Live: How Chronic Back Pain can be Cured, 1999
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show
- "Your Healing Power with Psyche and Soma" Online Radio Show, 2010
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[edit] Sources
2. Sarno, John. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection. Warner Books: New York,1991.
3. Larry King Live. How Chronic Back Pain Can be Cured. August 12, 1999.
4. John Sarno, Wikipedia.com article.
5. Sarno, John. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain. Warner Books: New York, 1998.
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