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Spine Health | Last Active: May 11, 2022 | Replies (22)Comment receiving replies
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Siltan. Thank you!
I recommend going to the Pain Cure Clinic website and reading about their method. It's based on John Sarno's work describing the important role of stress in causing back pain. And this program is part of a broader approach looking at the mind-body connection and the significant positive effects of meditation on relieving back pain from any source (changes the neural pathways of pain).
To Lioness2001: you don't say what the nature of your back pain is. Unless you know of some structural problem that's pointing you toward fusion, it might be helpful to consider Sarno's work. Perhaps stress is indeed causing your pain.
I am currently taking the 8-wk Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program online, offered by our university medical center, to help me control the anxiety associated with having an ailment (numbness) for which there seems to be no cure, and which can only be "managed." (You can find LOTS of info about MBSR online if you're interested.