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For me mindfulness is the most important tool in dealing with my pain etc. What it does for me: - Keep the attention in the present moment - Awareness of nonproductive thought patterns (especially pain-related) - Non-judgmental awareness of pain cancels out the painfulness of the pain - Draw the...

This is a very interesting article I wanted to share with you: http://saveyourself.ca/articles/central-sensitization.php From the point that my own knee pain got really bad, I also started getting all kinds of pains in other parts of my body, with relatively little activity. What in TMS terms...

Good luck! Your life will be better. :)

I ordered The Divided Mind, and tbh I never reread MBP, but I will for sure. I am definitely improving. After about two weeks not worrying about structural damage etc when in pain became automatic for my mind. Now I sometimes go for a walk without even having to think about pain/TMS which is...

Strategies that I use: - Meditation. 20 minutes focusing on my breath. People seem to do this for all kinds of different purposes. For me it is a way of calming the mind, taking a pause from the common chains of thoughts. Also by meditating I learn more about the way my mind works which I can...

Not sure if this is the right place to do this, but anyhow.. Do I have TMS? Arguments pro: - At some point I completely adopted the physical overuse hypothesis, that is: every sign of pain I interpreted as a sign of knee damage, so I avoided all activities that induced pain -> total...

Yeah I have the same feeling. Your knees started to hurt 2-3 months ago. I do not think that is very long per se. If you have a physical problem, I imagine adopting the TMS hypothesis could hurt a lot. I think I'll start a thread about that point, since it worries me a bit.

Well I am not so sure about this TMS thing specifically, but I think the psychology is a huge factor in how my pain developed. Probably the same holds for you, since you posted on this forum and you developed some other random pain issues.

I have knee problems too (patellofemoral pain syndrom) and just started the TMS program. In my experience climbing stairs/jumping/running are all very aggravating and could reasonably keep your knees from healing. So I guess you could try resting with even more discpline. It won't hurt to...

I have struggled for a couple of years with knee pain. About a year ago the pain started persisting and got significantly worse. While it first only hurt after running, or cycling with high resisting, I started to get pain during virtually all daily activities where both my knees weren't resting...