Recent content by tezzasponger

I have been open about stress and TMS to patients when I used to practice back at home, this was met with an open mind from a lot of my patients. However, this is not the case here in Singapore. It is a culture thing here. They believe that pain is caused by a structural abnormality especially...

I am a PT. For me its hard as well, as I was trained to associate pain with structural abnormalities (that takes some shifting in my mind to do). As said when I treat people and I see they have TMS attributes, I don't say anything and just follow the trend and say its structural, but I hate...

Hi Kenneth, I also live in Singapore. I came on to this forum a while back and was advised to follow the structured education programme. It helped along with continuous reading of Healing back pain. My pains still jump from my back, with occasional sciatica, to my knees to my achilles and...

Thanks Eric

Hi everyone, Sorry I haven't posted anything since my initial post. Thanks for all your help. I have stopped looking on Dr google as it makes me more anxious and nervous. Once I started telling myself I have TMS, surprise surprise the sensations have gone and the pain has reduced. However...

Hi everyone One week ago I had right sided inguinal hernia repair which unfortunately needed to be done. All was well until Sunday when I started getting funny sensations on the groin, pain on the right SIJ along with sciatica down my right leg (This especially doesn't make sense). Plus I...

MorCommon thanks for your story. I have never seen anyone with complete paralysis who had a bulging disc. Let me tell you about some cases I have come across personally. I recall when I was student a patient who had a back problem, he had PT to start with which did not help. He went away on...

Thank you Forest for the response and the advice. Of all the things that scares me the most is the picking up heavy objects and flexing my back, as soon as I do I get my symptoms in my left side and sciatica down the leg... which is annoying. And theses symptoms take time to go. I think about it...