Recent content by GregA

Hi, I’m glad to hear things worked out well for your brother. My father has been dealing with heart issues also and it can be very discouraging. Sometimes we really need that feeling of hope coming from a physician we trust. I agree that sciatica has definitely been the most irritating TMS...

This is a complicated set of mind-body interactions. The more I think about things over the past five years—i.e., “accidents” and other pain events/flare-ups—the more they seem related to some subconscious drive. For example, in 2017 when sciatica first appeared on the scene for me, I was...

Duggit, Thanks for the pointer on that. I was unable to find a chart in the particular Schubiner book on my desk, but on page 11 of “Unlearn Your Pain”, noted the following: “When you take a large number of people with no back pain at all, you find the following on MRIs: 50% of healthy...

Thanks so much! I’ll read this today. I Also downloaded Ozanich’s book for reading over the holidays. I have a lot of work to do here, as it seems clear that a good deal of my emotions are still buried. I’ve been really good at pushing things away in order to stay focused on goals over the...

Hi, Good point on the timing of the worst symptoms. I thought of this also when reading “Healing Back Pain” sometime back. There’s a section where he describes the “Weekend-Vacation Syndrome”: “When we generate anxiety depends mostly on the details of our personality structure. Not uncommonly...

Hi, ::X-ray/MRI diagnostics further below:: I’m new here and am currently in the process of going through earlier threads. Please forgive me if I’m asking about something that has been answered fifty times already :) My first herniated disc was back in late 2005. Over the years since, I’ve...