Healing Back Pain

John E. Sarno · Argues chronic back pain stems from repressed emotions, and explains how to treat it without surgery.

6 people say it helped them, in their own words on Hacker News.

What people said

I read the book anyway, and I swear, the pain began dissipating. I began to adopt a new mindset -- my back is fine, the pain is arising out of my stress and awareness of the injury, not the injury itself-- and it truly worked.

Genuinely life changing for me. Ever since, on the rare occasions when it does flare up again I reflect on the ideas from the book and apply them. Works amazingly well.

it has helped me deal with a 7+ year "chronic" upper back pain, though it did take a bit of time to swallow the concept at first.

Helped me with back pains and a plethora of random pains. Also helped my partner with hers.

litreally gave me my life back. Suffered back pain which I thought was from sitting and coding for 11 years.

by just reading his books I got cured of my years of chronic back pain

What people got from it AI summary

Best if you have long-lasting physical pain and are open to a mind-based explanation.

• Eased chronic pain
• Gave life back
• Changed how pain is understood

Style

Reflective & spiritual · 193 pages

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