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Another person just told me that they had their RSI cured by Sarno's techniques: https://t.co/RGGfCxVHy7. While it sounds like preposterous woo, it has worked in 4/4 cases of people I personally know trying it. (One account: https://t.co/8ie9NkJfWF.)
Oh, and, it was recently the subject of an RCT, with apparently encouraging results: https://t.co/7p2MIchUnh.
@patrickc Hey Patrick, I have a lot of direct experience with the Sarno method and know there are some very cool things happening around it, with skeptical MDs (I've donated to one) doing double-blind tests to see how it fares. @InfiniteL88ps with the Dr. and a TMS therapist drops soon.
@patrickc Cured my co-founder and many other friends too. We made a whole module about it for our diabetes product because so many patients struggled with pain. Truly groundbreaking stuff. I'll dropbox you his documentary.
@patrickc This post is an advertisement for functional medicine. Data and diagnostics are starting to move “root cause care” from niche to mainstream. The number of chronic conditions that can be effectively treated with methods like this is massive. Cc @Rupa_Health @TaraViswanathan
@patrickc This video covers it really well from one of Sarnos students https://t.co/1xmsKLrtFE
@patrickc A good friend of mine had this experience, & recommended Sarno's work. It's the real deal - it works. BTW I studied pain perception & management in neuroscience grad school - & given what I learned, these mind/body mechanisms make complete sense within a scientific context
@patrickc @lndian_Bronson I’ve done yoga/meditation to remove mild chronic pain. My theory is we can enter these states though deep concentration that let us edit “root files” within our software, and can reprogram out-of-sync negative feedback loops. Like booting into the bios.
@patrickc I had RSI bad enough I thought I’d have to drop out of the CS phd. Many doctors and physical therapists were well meaning but useless. Sarno’s technique worked, thankfully. Not sure I buy the claimed reason it worked, but: All models are wrong, some are useful.
@patrickc Btw Dr Sarno claimed that it’s not just back pain but all sorts of chronic illnesses work like that. He opens the book with an observation that they come and go like fashion (apparently ulcers was all the rage in the 90s).
@patrickc From what I understood, the root cause is similar to what Vipassana talks about as well. During Vipassana, I was in tremendous pain a long sit, & as I shifted awareness, realized a specific muscle was stiff. As I grew aware, muscle relaxed, pain was gone - unbelievable!
@patrickc On the mechanics of Sarno's approach and in general on how pain is not a signal of damage but of vulnerability https://t.co/dNBnV3FbYd https://t.co/rTn5XLfPWt
@patrickc Chronic pain (and it’s subcategories) was recently added to the list of global diagnostic codes, meaning treatment for chronic pain like what you mentioned will likely be covered by insurance at some point soon (insurance coverage follows ICD 11 codes)
@patrickc Dancers tend to have had many strong experiences showing close connection between old/repressed emotions and physical movement that you’d expect to be unrelated. But they don’t tend to be people we listen to about this stuff (not undeservedly since they are pretty wacky).
@patrickc fwiw, like 90% of the top mds/hospital admins/payor execs I’ve met so far are so far into woo medicine we’d want to institutionalize them. these people are keeping the HC alive and are talking in private about balancing chakras and if Ray peat didn’t go far enough
@patrickc Related: https://t.co/pEJgVNzVxy
@patrickc similar genre, there's tons of reports of people using psychedelics (5ht2a agonists) to "rewire" muscles that were once hurt, healed, but got stuck with the hurt range of motion. Apparently on them it's easier to teach "hey you're healed and have range of motion again"