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Summary: If you have an open mind, this book will cure you.
Review: I've had a mysterious back problem for over a year. I was diagnosed with sciatica and sacro-iliac joint dysfunction. After too many trips to the Chiropractor only to be relieved temporarily, I decided to take the issue into my own hands and research it. I came across many materials and decided on Dr. Sarno's book and within 6 hours started to feel an easing of the pain. Within two days I was cured and have not had one problem since. He gives you the courage to believe that your back is strong and healthy and can endure much more than medical professionals lead you to believe. Now when I get stressed, I talk to myself and recognize the problem...before it becomes a physical issue and manifests itself in my lower back. If you are open-minded and truly want to live life to it's fullest and eliminate the limitations that back pain cause, get this book, read it and put it to work for you! It has changed my life.
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Summary: I was a skeptic too
Review: I was completely skeptical when I heard about this book. But I'm serious - it really, honestly worked for me! To persuade all of you back sufferers out there that I know whereof I speak, I had episodes of back pain bad enough to keep me bedridden on and off for 7 years. At one point I spent most of 2 months laying flat on my back on the floor and at the age of 27 I had to walk with a cane for weeks because the pain of trying to hold up my upper body was so excruciating I couldn't do it. In those 7 years I had physical therapy, took muscle relaxants and serious painkillers, tried acupuncture, and nothing helped for long. In May 2000 I had surgery for 2 herniated discs, with no particular improvement. A passing mention of Dr. Sarno's book led me to look it up on Amazon.com. All of the comments from people who said they cured their back problems by reading this book amazed me. I didn't see how it was remotely possible. But it seemed worth $(...) or so to see what they were talking about so I read this book over a year ago, and while it took months to recover fully, I have that "new lease on life" you hear about. I started running again. I can rollerblade. I can do yoga. I can lift weights. I can kickbox. I can sit in any position I want. Please, just read the book (and his other book, the Mind-Body Prescription) with an open mind, no matter how crazy you think the theory is at first. It drastically improved the quality of my life.
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Summary: Didn't help!!!
Review: This book may help some people as I see it did in the customer
reviews. As for me reading this book didn't help me at all.
I wouldn't recommend it to a person that has been diagnosed with
a herniated disc plus degenerative disc that I have especially if
you have any pain down your leg!!!
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Summary: This book has no useful information
Review: This book's basic premise that the pain is all in your mind is insulting and not helpful. If you are in crippling pain and it is due to a real condition such as a herniated disk then wishing the pain away is not going to work. My advice, bypass this book.
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Summary: Genius of our Century
Review: Dr. Sarno is a genius, this is the first book that I have ever read, that actually does what it say's. All you have to do is read the book, and your pain WILL disappear. By reading his book and understanding medically why it is impossible to have ongoing back pain, it disappears. Dr. Sarno should win the Noble Prize for this, but because the medical community doesn't like quick inexpensive fixes, he won't. Any and I mean anyone with back pain should read this book.
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Summary: less pain more gain
Review: The more people there are that read this book, the less back problems there will be.
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Summary: Unmask your back pain!
Review: I strained my back at work in July, 1996. Prior to reading John Sarno's book, I even carried my purse on a wheeled luggage cart because the strain of carrying it over my shoulder was unbearable. I used a headset to answer the phone to spare my neck. My arm and leg were often numb. My hip ached constantly. I visited a chiropracter weekly. I carried a mental list of hundreds of things I couldn't do/attempt "because I have a bad back." These included lifting anything over 5 pounds, moving furniture, painting, golfing. Since I read Healing Back Pain two years ago, I have been pain-free. My strong, healthy back no longer limits my approach to an active, physical lifestyle. It seems like a miracle cure after so many years of pain and I recommend this book to everyone I know. If stress threatens, I re-read several key passages to remind myself to unmask back pain.
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Summary: Fantastic Book!
Review: This book is fantastic. Dr. Sarno is a genious. I am completely cured from my back pain. I also recommend two other books: Back Sense and Rapid Recovery from Back and Neck Pain.
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Summary: Nothing Short of a Miracle
Review: I had severe back pain for five months. My brother had it for over two years. He sent me a copy of this book as it had cured him. I read the book over one weekend (I was flat in bed as usual with nothing else to do). I then sat down with my wife and went over all of the things that were causing me stress, mostly business-related. I then got up and walked down the hall...without pain. It was gone! I wouldn't have believed it was possible, but it happened to me. It has now been two months and I'm still pain free. My back was stiff for a while from being cramped so severely, but it's since loosened up and I haven't had any pain at all. Amazing!
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Summary: like a miracle
Review: the title is misleading, not just about back pain. I read this for my "restless legs syndrome" who the Dr's could do nothing about. Haven't had a problem since. A friend's TMJ worked the same way. Get this book...it's worth the dollars for the chance of ridding yourself of pain.
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