Recent content by MJA

Hi Loui, Here are a couple excerpts from Healing Back Pain by Dr. John Sarno that address this topic: "...a common complaint of people with low back pain is that it is invariably brought on by sitting. This is such a benign activity one is mystified by the fact that it initiates pain. But...

Hi Lauren, I had terrible lower back pain that got so bad I became bedridden. A chiropractor told me she thought it was one of my SI joints, but her adjustments didn't help. Another person told me it was my psoas muscle. An MRI showed a herniated disc. I later learned that my pain was being...

Hi Mitch, I haven't gone through the app's program, but I've listened to many of the episodes of the podcast associated with it. I've learned a lot of great information from the podcast. They discuss founding Curable on a couple of the episodes, could be worth listening to...

Glad it helped, Kathryn!

Hi myjourney, Sounds like you’ve had quite the experience with pain! Sorry to hear it. It’s very likely that your pain from golfing went away when you began swimming because it subconsciously taught your brain that your body was ok, causing it to release the neural pathway it had created for...

Hi Kathryn, Congrats on becoming a mother! What a wonderful blessing. I can’t say definitively whether your symptoms are from a true physical cause or TMS, but what I can say is that in either case, it is amazing how our minds can initiate real physiological/chemical changes so that even if...

Hi! My husband and I both had lateral shifts. In The Mindbody Prescription, Dr. Sarno says: "The pain may be in the muscles on one or both sides of the lumbar area and/or lower down, including the upper buttock, occasionally out to the hip area. Lumbar muscle involvement may tilt the trunk to...