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Dr sarno and herniated disc
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Northwood
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In Healing Back Pain, Sarno writes "...herniated disc material is rarely responsible for pain or any other neurological symptom"(p. 101) And: "My conclusion that most disc herniations are harmless is based on seventeen years of treating such patients with a high degree of success, leading to the impression that the extruded material is not hurting anything; it's just there (p. 101) He writes more about this in The Mindbody Prescription. Just check the book's index for relevant passages. Years later, these early finding are backed by other big names engaged in the science around TMS, Howard Schubiner, for example.
Cactusflower
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Here’s a great podcast about a herniated disc, tms, surgery, anxiety and fear: https://audioboom.com/posts/7947598-episode-152-back-pain-sciatica-coccydynia-and-unnecessary-surgery-with-jacqueline (The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW / Episode 152 - Back Pain, Sciatica, Coccydynia, and Unnecessary Surgery with Jacqueline)
hawaii_five0
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Dr Schubiner has a great series of videos, see #6 "All MRIs are Abnormal":
See the chart at about 4:00 in that video, which is from a study of MRIs of 3,000 some people with NO back pain. At age 50, 60% of them have disk bulges, 36% have disk protrusions, 80% have disk degeneration, etc. These are all people without any back pain. I.e. having something "abnormal" with your back is completely normal, particularly once you get above about age 30.