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Enrique, thank you very much for this series of posts on your achilles tendon pain. I've been feeling a burning/tearing sensation in my left achilles tendon this week, which I feel when I bend my foot a certain way, though most of the time I don't feel it. It's more scary than painful, because...

Ellen, thanks for this article. You provide many tips which address my situation bang on (emotions, thought patterns, perfectionism, exercise). I've also found hatha yoga to be very helpful, for lower back pain. My yoga teacher is a long-time student of Desikachar (Gary Kraftsow's teacher), and...

Hi bikebum, Thanks for sharing your story, it's great. I was suffering from hip and leg pain this past year until I was told about Dr Sarno several months ago. I still have some pain and fear of the pain, but the pain is mostly gone. Your return to weighlifting, biking and other exercises is...

After work today, I went for a bike ride. I decided I would try to hop onto my bike from the ground. Lately I've been standing on a stair to get on, because I'm really inflexible in my hips, and I'm afraid I might rip something inside if I hop on. But I hopped on anyway, and felt a twinge of...

Jan, I just Googled Dr Gabor Mate and watched his interview with Democracy Now on YouTube. He's great! I really like what he has to say and how he says it. Such important findings. And that's what Amy Goodman looks like - I've been hearing her voice on NPR for years! SB

Thanks Jan for the really good tips and advice and for sharing your experience. SB

Around November 2014 my right hip area started hurting a fair amount. I don’t know what caused it, though I did remember feeling a slight muscle tweak as I was bounding up the stairs. After a while, I was limping about painfully. I remember doing a food run for our Christmas get-together, having...