Literally thousands of people have stories like mine. People who've had pain for decades, and have been bedridden even, have made astounding recoveries. He's written several books, spoken to congress and been on 20/20. **[/QUOTE]


There may well be (probably is) a psychological component to many cases of TOS - the workings of pain and the mind body connection are simply not fully understood. But I find Dr. Sarno's reasoning - essentially that "it's all in your head" - limiting and paternalistic. The notion that TOS symptoms/pain is the brain's way of dealing with compulsiveness, perfectionism, anger (Dr. S's theory), does not apply to me. But we are all differently constituted and Dr. S's theory may resonate with others. I'm glad it helped you.