New TMS Program posted tomorrow!

Hi Everyone,

Alan Gordon, LCSW, who recovered from a terrible case of his own TMS and started with Pain Psychology Center will be posting a new TMS Recovery program, starting tomorrow.

Starting tomorrow, he will post a new thread every day, Monday-Saturday. To participate, just visit our forum, read his posts carefully, think about them, and reply to them just as you would any other post.

I've been helping with the technical aspects of the program (since I'm the site's web programmer) and by mistake, I let my draft of his first post be visible earlier today. Sorry! The program doesn't actually start until tomorrow. (Please don't mention what happened in the new thread when it pops up again, as we want the program to be around for a while, and we don't want people who didn't see the first thread to be confused when they see people discussing how the thread appeared and disappeared. You're free to make fun of me all you want here, though. )

You may have gotten the announcement in email, but if not, here it is.

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Hello, fellow TMSers,

First off, I wanted to let you know about an exciting new TMS study. Howard Schubiner, MD, and Alan Gordon, LCSW, have been given the opportunity to do a randomized controlled back pain study, large enough and ambitious enough to help TMS treatment gain some serious traction in the medical community!

They started a fundraising campaign to help fund the study, and after a couple of weeks, it's completely funded! They're trying to raise an additional 40% to bring on an award-winning documentarian to help capture the study, and bring national attention to the TMS treatment approach.

They're offering cool rewards to people who contribute as well, such as sample sessions, meditations, and seminars on how to overcome pain.

And this brings me back to the new TMS program. To help raise awareness for the fundraising effort, Alan Gordon, LCSW (a TMS success story who is director of the Pain Psychology Center and author of the free TMS Recovery Program on the wiki) has volunteered to put together a NEW FREE TMS PROGRAM based on his most up-to-date treatment techniques.

He will be putting together a 21-day program, starting from the beginning of treatment and working though every step in the process.

Early next week, he will be making his DAY 1 post in the TMS Wiki Forum. Every day thereafter (Monday - Saturday) he will be adding another step in the recovery process and responding in the thread.

Alan is the most talented TMS therapist I know, and I'm really excited that he's willing to do this. I invite all of you to join in for day 1, and progress through this new program as it develops. I will be there and hope to see you as well.

Now, back to the study/documentary. Here's a link to their campaign video (it is unexpectedly hilarious...) Please consider contributing to this worthy cause. Documenting this important study can help legitimize TMS treatment in the medical community, and help many pain sufferers who don't yet know about the mindbody connection.


Click here to watch the video and learn about the study.

Best,
Forest

 

I think probably the General Discussion subforum. I could give it its own subforum but haven't decided yet.

 

I know, right? That's how I ended up starting this site. I found my cure, remembered how much I would have given beforehand, and decided to pay it forward.

Thanks for the donation. I hope the documentary of the study gets funded. The director sounds amazing. Alan is very excited.

 

Day 1 is posted!

 

Hi Lainey,

I think that it will be back pain only, as that will be considered more compelling by the doctors and researchers that will be reading the research.

The recovery program is meant to be a gift to the community and is meant to stay up in perpetuity.

Thanks for your donation. It's a donation I think you can be very proud of!

 

That makes sense. You can always use the following link to see all of the days of the program:
http://www.tmswiki.org/forum/forums/general-discussion-subforum.2/?prefix_id=128 (General Discussion Subforum)

The above link will hopefully also respond to Plum's feedback (good to see you!). I'm using a "prefix" to collect all of the posts. A prefix is like a subforum integrated within another subforum. This will keep it integrated within the main discussion (and decrease the number of proliferating subforums), but will also give people a single simple link to click on and see an organized view. I hate the idea of too many subforums as some of them die out and no one checks them.