I love this guy - he’s so non-alarmist and easy to listen to. I’m not “the lady” he refers to in the video but I am struggling with facial pain and muscle tension in my head due to ongoing jaw clenching. Felt like he was talking to me!! ❤
Thank you for this video. I have scoliosis and that diagnosis has been ingrained in me since I was 10! I’m 28 now. I know I can do this! Thank you Dan 🙏
Hi Dan, you are so right! After many years of stretching and exercising, I realized it was self made tension. Why, because I could be limping in horrific hip, leg, back pain and when I got down on the floor and rolled out my tight muscles, I could get up and be 98% better. Now, I can almost talk myself into loosening up the area by thinking about it! Ugh....I wasted so much time and worry for nothing. Fear, fear, fear...have had doctors who told me it is age and I should get used to it because I will not ever heal. Thanks for all you do!
Dr. Schechter discusses this topic in his book, Think Away Your Pain. He says he has a nuanced view of pain that includes “only TMS, only structural, or sometimes in a VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE of patients it can be a combination of both.” I agree with him. I damaged my left inner ear when a firecracker exploded an inch away from it. There is irreparable damage. It’s not going to heal. I will never hear normally in that ear ever again. But I know that my hypervigilance and anxiety have made the pain and hyperacusis worse. And I know that doing the TMS work will get me significantly better. It has in the past. When my life gets better, my ear pain and hyperacusis get about 80% better. When I’m under severe stress, when I’m focusing on the ear all day long, when I’m depressed, the ear pain and hyperacusis get much worse. My favorite quote these days is “love your life more than you hate your pain.” Dr. Schechter concludes by saying that while this combination of TMS and structural represents a “relatively small percentage of my overall TMS practice, I think this may be helpful to those who struggle with the black and white, either/or approach of some writing in this field.”
Thank you! Finally, someone who is willing to say it is a combination of both structural and Mind Body Syndrome. I’m getting tired of hearing experts say it is ALL Mind Body Syndrome, and only considering the prospect of Mind Body preceding and causing chronic illness, and not the other way around, where chronic illness can cause Mind Body Syndrome. It is well-known that people with Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s or MS, can have Mind Body Syndrome as a comorbid condition. I have had chronic illness for 34+ years, but because I have always prioritized exercise my whole life, I managed to avoid symptoms of Mind Body Syndrome for 30 years. Basically, my chronic illness finally took it’s toll on me, and I am glad to have found out that my new symptoms are Mind Body Syndrome, because that means I have hope of reversing my new symptoms, but that doesn’t make my pre-existing conditions go away. According to your reference from Dr. Schechter’s book, my situation is apparently unique, but I do wish more people would address this situation.
My grandmother was a genius. She had sciatica and it allowed her to do what she wanted and protected her from doing the things she didn’t want to. She had structural damage that was apparent and the pain kept her from doing things..But her brother had the same structural thing she did (a genetic hip deformity) and he did whatever he wanted..it did not hinder him at all. Our MindBody can be much smarter than we give Credit. I am Stuck in a nasty addiction and my MindBody is not going to let up until I gain control and move forward with my life. I know this but addictions are hard.
You are greater than the program Kathleen!! You will overcome this! its not easy, but you can and will do it. Make the decision and be persistent . Your brain naturally does not like change, so you will be uncomfortable. But like Nicole Sachs says , we have two choices. What hurts vs what hurts worse. Pick your struggle. Choose to go with the temporary short term discomfort of getting rid of the pain programming in your head.
I find this video verrryyyy helpful. I had low back pain, and a big scoliosis . I heard about TMS, believed in it, and my pain went away, and my scoliosis too!! Here I am, few months later, my pain came back, this time It feels harder to accept that it is not structural, because the scoliosis came back, and I have been diagnosed with scoliosis and degenerated disc, but what is "funny" is that when I relax very much, my scoliosis seems to reduce. I stayed scoliosis too many times right 😅😋 So yes, thank you for explaining this, because we are told that if the body is doing funny staff it must be the cause of the pain, but yes as you say it actually may be the other way around! 😊
Scoliosis is a deformity of the bones. That doesn't go away and come back. Just like my body was all twisted, it was simply muscles that were out of balance. You don't have scoliosis. You likely have muscles that go into spasm, get tight and pull the alignment of your back crooked. That is way different than scoliosis. It's all TMS and will go away. Implement the concepts in this one video and you can become pain free. ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
I've had this question floating in my mind for a while. It's just really hard for me to believe that pain/tension doesn't come from being sedentary. On the other hand, over the summer, I challenged myself to walk and run everyday (and move around a lot during the day) and my pain didn't decrease. I didn't notice a difference in my anxiety or depression either. People always say exercise heals, but it didn't do anything for me, except the post workout endorphin high. I keep feeling like maybe I need to lift weights to strengthen and tone my muscles and maybe that'll heal me, because that's one thing that I've never tried. I've been told that my muscles were really tight and pulling my bones/joints out of alignment (like you stated in the video), and that's what causing my discomfort. But, there have been many times in the past where I've felt zero pain/tension and I didn't exercise. *SIGH* I wish I never got so deep into the world of health/science. It's so many arguments and theories and they all make sense, which causes further confusion and frustration. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss. Lol One thing that I do know about me: I keep feeling like I'm not doing enough, whether that's in my health, professional life, love life, etc. I'm constantly feeling like I need to do more and more. That's probably why relaxation is challenging for me. I keep coming into these clarifying moments in regards to my habits, behavior, and hidden emotions, and it'll make me feel good for a few moments, but then I'm right back to being anxious and searching for more answers.----As I reread this last sentence, it honestly sounds like an addiction. Holy shit. 😳
Listen to your Body. I think we sometimes listen to our Mind and that is what messes us up. I have an addiction and I know I will not feel better until I overcome this and move on with my life. This thing takes some Introspection.
Pain comes from your brain. If you are afraid of being sedentary you will feel more pain. If you are afraid that your weight causes tissue damage you will be afraid when you move and your brain interprets the novel sensations you're having while moving as dangerous. We need to decouple weight stigma and the messaging around being at a higher weight or being inactive as the trigger for pain. The fear is a far greater trigger. There are lots of bigger folks who are not in any pain at all.
If you can implement the concepts in this video, you can end your pain. Being sedentary does not hurt. I do not work out much at all. I'm at my desk much of the day. Zero pain for over 10 years. Here's the action plan. Watch. Take notes. Take action. ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
That's exciting. I have a hypermobility syndrome diagnosis with daily subluxations starting in childhood. I've been told there's nothing more that can be done other than manage the pain and fatigue. I refuse to accept that.
Dear Dan, thanks a lot for this video! I do have jaw joint disc displacement with reduction, but for most people its asymptomatic change and even some maxiofacial surgeons said it shouldn't be the cause of the sensations I have in face and that they are rather muscular. But as nothing was helping I kept "pursuing" joints as cause and wanted a confirmation for that. I was searching desperately for the cause as it would give me some kind of "safety". Strange but true. And because pain started after getting teeth braces, it was a perfect "thing" to blame for discs and also for the pain. So, when this one specialist later did confirm it comes from joints, I got some kind of "relief". And final confirmation I am not crazy or "imagining" the pain. Anyway, cause no physical therapy or teeth splints really helped, I started doubting in tmj. This specialist did have some other kind of protocol: mandibula protraction and suggested me getting new splint. But actually, I am sick of trying, sick of splints, sick of that nothing works. So, the idea of tms as accepting the pain and stop trying to fix it sounds so heavenly to me. But it is not easy and it is especially for me difficult to distance myself from that structural abnormality. I also have cracking in joint..what I have never ever noticed in my life before all of this. The question is..maybe I was born with this disc displacement and braces had nothing to do with it. Maybe its just "accidental" discovery on mri. So many maybes...But your video definitively cleared this a bit up for me. Why would it be the cause of my pain if most of people are asymptomatic? And if it is tmj why it doesn't resolve with time as It does for most people. Why it doesn't respond on therapies? So, the only possible answer is...because it is tms. Thanks once more! :)
I had a really bad back pain as a kid. So much so I was kept at a hospital for 2 weeks. At that time, my family was going through some very hard times. I was the eldest child and way too much was put on my shoulders (and back!). Doctors told me I have a mild scoliosis and that I have to stop ridding. My horse was my only source of freedom and support then and I still remember vividly, as the doctor was speaking, I had already decided in my mind that there’s no way I would stop ridding. I was 11. Thanks to a great public health care, after that 2 week hospital stay, I was also sent into 2 week rehabilitation-spa program for kids. First “holiday” I have had as a kid, i had such a great time that whole month. My back pain disappeared after that. Even though family struggle got even worse in the years after. No sign of scoliosis again. I think that “threat” of taking my horse ridding away in combination with finally feeling safe, having fun and being taken care off did the trick.
Thank you, Dan! Important framing of a topic that comes up a lot for those of us in the struggle. I would really appreciate seeing those “before” images of your back. The visual helps reinforce the talk in a powerful way. Thank you again for your work! ✊🏽
Cheers Dan, I'm some way into this and am 100% convinced it's TMS. On the odd occasion in the middle of the night I have seconds of doubt. You videos bring me bsck where I need to be.
Hi Dan! Thanks so much for the video link you had given me to watch. That video and watching your other daily videos has really helped me to keep what I have known for a long time to be true about TMS but just got sidetracked in my thinking. Funny cause my pain has been traveling this week as I reconfirmed in my own mind what is going on with me. It even caused a toothache to the point where someone could think they have a problem enough to see a dentist and get that addressed. I kept telling my brain that I knew it was another place TMS was trying to hide and lo and behold, woke up today to that tooth being just fine. Amazing! Thanks for what you do! 😊
God bless you Dan.... This is very important video for when you think its structural. It is easy to think it is but ur explanation is crystal clear. Thank you 🙏
This was excellent.. i have exactly the same back you had.. bottom right .. twisted hips from ache .. you're really getting me through this .. i beat bsck pain reasding gis book 7 years ago.. i must again..
Hello Dan! My first post here even though I’ve been watching your videos for months. I’ve got a compendium of issues in my back: protruding disks, loss of the natural lordosis, facet joint syndrome, scoliosis and arthritis in my spine. Luckily all surgeons say it’s not worth operating as it would represent a risk. I’ve been in pain for almost three years and for half that length of time, I’ve followed a TMS treatment. I’ve got better days than others. Two days ago I went for a run despite the discomfort and I might have overdone it because last night I had quite intense low back pain and today I am moving like a 90 year old man even if I am 50. This video was magically very relevant to what is going around in my head now. It’s hard for me to accept it’s not structural with all the number of things which came up on my MRIs.
As you learn more about TMS, you learn that 2/3 of people with NO pain have abnormalities on their MRI's. Our bodies are not perfect. These are NORMAL abnormalities. Your brain perceived that the run was dangerous so it amped up the pain to make sure you don't run again. This video explains the way to end the pain: ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
Not necessarily. Pain can begin for any reason. TMS or a real injury. Chronic pain is learned pain. Meaning, fear and attention on the pain can teach the brain there is something "wrong" there so it keeps the pain going to protect us from "hurting ourselves" further. Here's a video on that topic: ruclips.net/video/UiJhpwfPpcw/видео.html
Bummer I can’t show pics, but I went from in shape, to Achilles tendinitis at the beginning of Covid, to getting fat because I couldn’t walk for five months so I would just sit around drinking beer. Four years and a few gout attacks later, I dropped 60 pounds. In the meantime, I spent that driving in a Toyota Corolla doing sales about six hours a day in the car. I’m 6’0” 180lb now, I was up to 235 then. When I decided to lose weight, I starved myself and didn’t do any exercise whatsoever during the weight loss or in the four years prior. In my case, I really do feel like the rapid weight loss revealed a bunch of restrictions that I had been compensating for in my body, and working through those to my goal of correcting my posture, there has been undeniable tangible changes. My girlfriend is witnessed some wild joint repositioning such as my knee, as well as seeing restrictions. Release leading to lots of immediate digestive sounds. I wish I could show the pics of how twisted up my leg was from all the driving, years of compensations, probably working around the tendinitis and gout flareups that never chilled. So unless words, our persistent compensations, and TMS pain the same thing?
Hi Dan, I commented on another video yesterday and I leave a comment here to as I also have the diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. My jaw joints dislocated a lot already as a child, and in my late 40's I had so much structural damage in one of my jaw joints (in a way that prevented the joint to move enough to chew). I was in alot of pain at that time and I will never know how much of that pain was TMS. I got a total jaw joint replacement, so now I have a functional jaw joint (and the pain disappeared right after the operation). I have other pain problem (pelvic pain) but the MRI doesn't show structural damage, I am sure that's TMS, because any damage should have healed by now.
There are certainly times when medical interventions are necessary. But it is much less than we are lead to believe. I'm really glad they got your jaw situation handled for you. And I would agree with your assessment that the pelvic pain sounds like TMS. How pain behaves is much more important than any imaging study. Danbuglio.com/paintest
I had a work accident and seriously damaged my neck in 2016. I had a cervical fusion at c6/7. I was out of work for nearly 2 years. I’ve had numbness and tingling in my hand and fingers ever since. The pain stays away for long periods of time then returns. Recently it’s returned pretty intense. If it’s structural would the pain come and go. I answered yes to nearly all the TMS questions
If symptoms come and go and you score high on the assessment, then your body has healed from the accident and surgery. Symptoms are due to the brain perceiving danger. My fast start playlist explains what is happening and what to do. DansFastStart.com
Hey Dan! Your videos have been so refreshing and this one was spot-on for me. After a year of shoulder pain, I finally got an MRI showing a partial rotator cuff tear. I got referred to an ortho Dr. who is most likely going to send me to PT. But from what I’ve learned and seeing this connect to this video, they say you can live with it w/o treatment. Feel like I know what your answer will be, but wondering if I should continue with OT or just stick to the TMS work? Thanks for all your wise words!
My last comment might read frazzled but I'm pretty calm. I'm not in much pain at the moment. Binders are the reason. I'm just curious how you make something all psychological when you feel proof of toxicity being present and when it's pulled out the pain is so low or gone. Not as a placebo, but as a night and day, certainty
Real issues do occur. But the brain perceiving danger can absolutely intensify symptoms and sensitivities to things that would normally not be "toxic". Safety is the way forward regardless. As long as you believe the world is poisonous to you, your brain will seek to protect you with symptoms. Teaching the brain you are safe is the way to reduce the sensitivity to normal elements in the air.
I'm really stuck on my situation because I had mold affect me and I had no idea until recently, so what would be learned about it? I also see people do extreme mold avoidance, which means you avoid outdoor air toxicity and they can walk for miles again. They become like new. I sort of hate this because I don't want their life. I want to heal anywhere. I want to be with my family and sort of think unmasking to outdoor toxicity is kind of coddling the body rather then asking it to be a better detoxer anywhere. The whole thing is beyond confusing. I do know that if I didn't use binders I wouldn't be alive. I also became unmasked to outdoor toxicity that was life threatening so it's like I've seen proof for this insane story these people tell. For reference: "Beginner's Guide to Mold Avoidance" covers this phenomena.
Hi Dan, what is your take on the frozen shoulder and it's treatment (like cortison intra-articular shots ).. Did you meet many people with that? It obviously freaked me out. Not something that you recommend 😮
So my Tmj is structural and tms. The left joint is almost gone but it has osteoarthritis. So there's some pain from that, but I keep reinjuring due to clenching. That's mostly during sleep. You bet it's from the subconscious!
To the lady with the jaw pain (TMJ) is also TMS. The jaw may realign with a splint but pain can still say. Funny thing is my jaw was dislocated but the pain was in neck and eyes. This is same as any pain back, knee, shoulder.... Its all DARN TMS 😩
I heard a popin my jaw..i had pain and have had pain 4 two years along with a GRINDING sound..inhave trouble openong mouth and chewing..All this happened under extreme stress..I was ct scanned and was told.my.jaw was pulled.forward..they wanted to.split it and religned it n do prolotherapy for rk..Money I did not have...o declined and the crunching grind is still there any i have to.watch what o eat..i have heard the surgery is last resort.and odten fails...i pray this is tms but the grinding sound n feel.makes.me.feel that it is strucutal.
@@PainFreeYou read my story..ehat would u say if u felt n.heard a pop n ur jaw and for 2 yrs after GRINDING noise in feel as well.as tightness and pai. Whem chewing..i had ct scan.which showed i pulled.jaw joint away from.condyle...its been 2 yrs..i wont do surgery because of.high failure rate. I.hope this is TMS
@@kalosevillinas Take the pain test - that will help you determine if it's TMS or not. DanBuglio.com/paintest. You can also answer the 30 questions at: PPDAssociation.org/symptoms - the more you answer YES to, the more likely it is to be TMS. Noise does not cause pain. TMS can cause muscle tension and spasm which can pull joints and jaws out of alignment. This may explain what is going on. Take the assessments above. If it indicates TMS, the video below is the way OUT of this. ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
I wake up with jaw pain from clenching and grinding teeth at night and can’t chew. I have a mouth splint too that the dentist made but doesn’t take pain way. Does that mean my muscles are injured because of overuse and I can’t recover? Like you said about the injury of the broken bone and the person keeps re injuring it so it’s not tms?
It is very difficult in one paragraph to be able to tell you if your experience is TMS or not. However, you can find out with some assessments. I believe muscles get stronger with use, not injured. DanBuglio.com/paintest - a score over 29 means your pain behaves like TMS and not a structural problem. Answer the 30 questions here. The more you say YES to, the more likely your pain is from TMS. PPDAssocation.org/symptoms
After a mild concussion I’ve been having vision issues like convergence insufficiency. My MRI and CAT scans were normal. I feel like my eyes out of balance. Under a lot stress and suffer from anxiety. Can vision problems be MBS?
Stress and fear can absolutely create muscle tension in the body. If the muscles that become tense are the muscles that control the eyes, that tension can pull them out of alignment and create some visual disturbances. If the doctors cannot find a physical/structural/injury cause, there is literally no downside to applying the knowledge and safety approach to teaching the brain we are fine. There is only benefit and no downside. ruclips.net/video/g5xWR6eBlb8/видео.html
@@PainFreeYou Thank you so much Dan. I really appreciate your quick reply and reassuring words. I’ve been watching your videos and listening: knowledge therapy. You’re a blessing my brother! Good karma coming your way. 👍😃🙏
Dan, I had pain on and off for a few years in my lower back . About a year and a half after I retired I started to get numbness in my foot had a MRI and was told it was spondylolisthesis. Now I have pain in my back and leg when standing or walking after awhile. I don’t recall doing anything to my back to cause this spondylolisthesis. Could this be TMS or is this really a structural problem? Thanks in advance for any comments.
Thank you for videos, watching they regularly. Question: if TMS pain mostly caused by tension, should the relaxation/sleep always be helpful in reducing the pain? My pain is stronger when I do not move(in the morning; after sitting) comparing to when I move.
There's more to it than relaxing the muscular tension. What about emotionally tense that causes the muscular tension? My overall strategies for ending the pain are here: ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
Do the pain test for areas that hurt. That will tell you if your pain is from the osteo or from the brain. (TMS/Perceived Danger Pain) YourPainTest.com
In my opinion , if somebody had an injury and since then NEVER rested it , their pain is not tms AND structural. It's just structural. And even those people can heal if they rest long enough. There are Plenty of examples of people with real rsi/recurring injury from lack of rest after an injury and they heal when they rest. It is however possible to have a structural injury but also have tms, but at that point the root cause is still structural so its in fact structural pain. Rest in general is also overrated when healing physical trauma. When you sprain an ankle, drs tell you to start walking on it as soon as you can tolerate it (they do not say to wait until all the pain is gone). I have sprained my ankle more than a few times and the healing occurred a lot faster when I started to stop babying it and start using it as soon as it was tolerable. One time I babied a wrist sprain and after 6 weeks it still hurt and was extremely weak. I told myself never again. Obviously dont go doing intense exercise after an injury but I believe returning to normal human functions like walking, light jogs, and picking and lifting practical items should be returned to ASAP after any injury. The tissues need oxygen & stimulation and your brain needs to learn youre okay. I know a physical therapist who works with the newly injured and he shared with me that a large goal of physical therapy after an injury is really just to teach the person that they are not broken and help them get over the fear of movement.Personal Trainer Tim grover (he trained Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan) said that the moment Kobe Bryant got up and shot some free throws after tearing his Achilles, was the moment his healing began. I never got that , but I realize its because Kobe did not stay on the floor and lick his wounds (God bless his soul). Im sure that let his brain relax more than the average brain would after tearing achilles. Kobe played through lots of pain in his career and its my understanding he didnt experience chronic pain. long comment but I hope this insight helps someone.
to add to this, structural pain would not have a lot of the phantom qualities brain pain has . If you've done physical activity just once without any pain before and after that is evidence that the pain is false learned pain in my opinion . Structural pain would hurt every time, without fail .
Hey guys, hoping you can help me out. Is 'unlearn your pain' still in print? I'm looking on line but all I can seem to find are second hand copies at ridiculous prices. 🙏
I was dx with Advanced Osteoporosis at 52 and my bones have deteriorated for the past 6 years. My bones are like a woman in her 80s-90s. I believe the root cause is childhood trauma and being stuck in fight or flight all my life. I’m doing Brain Retraining and believing that as my system is moving into a healing and restoring state that my bones are being restored. I’ll be getting a DEXA scan in April and will see if the brain work is making a difference. Do you have any experience with this?
Hi Dan I have a question, I had an EMG test (with needles) requested by the neurologist because I have had weakness and muscle pain in my arms since May, now it appears that I have an old damage, the muscles are a bit affected, and is irreparable, can try to reduce pain complaints with physiotherapy, I am very shocked, can no longer carry out my hobbies ... this is structural, isn't it? does tms still make sense? Greetings Anja from the Netherlands
I cannot tell you since I'm not a doctor and don't fully understand the tests done and the results. However, if you take the pain test and it indicates TMS, I believe you can get well. DanBuglio.com/paintest
@@amrara1004 This means your symptoms are TMS and not structural/physical. You can get well. Here are my suggestions: ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
It could be placebo. Tough go give a universal answer. Pain is either structural or TMS. TMS behaves very differently than structural issues. Take the pain test. If it says TMS, then posture isn't the solution. DanBuglio.com/paintest
@@staceypollack808 take Dan's pain test and the FIT test he also includes on his website... Structural pain is usually constant, in one specific part of the body, etc.
40 degrees 😂, here in Florida i haven't even had the pleasure to turn my heater on. Im excited to bust out my only sweater 😂. Please God send a cold front soon 🙏😁
how does one deal with pain in SLEEP, it's not like we can become indifferent to it, because we are unconscious... we aren't busy panicking over pain during sleep... pain wakes me up every day.
I was nearly pain free two weeks ago. I started doing basic exercise and chores which required light lifting and bending. Four days ago just before getting out of bed I was stretching and felt a ‘pop’ at the base of my spine on the right side. ‘Ouch’ My pain is usually on the left side at the base of my spine. It has been extremely sore for 3-4 days. Hard to do any bending, let alone lifting. Going from sitting to standing is quite difficult. Is it possible that I just pulled a muscle? Perhaps due to the fear of using my low back muscles agin? Dr. Sarno recommends that we get back to normal physical movement and exercise. Not sure what to do here, I just know it hurts like hell 24/7.
The brain still believes the movement/chores are dangerous. They aren't. Teach your brain that by visualizing yourself doing them pain free with a smile before you start. And then, if the pain does come. Laugh at it and do not respond with anger or fear. The solution? This: ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
I am sorry don't take me wrong, I saw the pictures it is horrible, but it may not cause agonizing 24/7 continues pain, like a blownup sensitized nerve pain, I understand u may have had bad muscle related pain , and the tendon pulling to the bones, but like if u lie down u may forgot pain, I am asking coz I have continues 24/7 small nerve fiber peripheral neuropathy, and it's very severe severe pain, my father also had same spine like u, he would walk holding walls , but he dint cry coz of pain, I am just crying writhing, I can feel every fiber and nerve of in the feet , I can feel like ten thousand needles stabed in my feet even while I am resting,
I understand. Your pain is unrelenting. However, the severity of the pain does not change the solution. Yes, it may be more challenging for you due to how strong and distracting the pain is. However, you can always remind yourself of the cause of it, reassure yourself that it is temporary and work on the suggestions in this video: ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
I love this guy - he’s so non-alarmist and easy to listen to. I’m not “the lady” he refers to in the video but I am struggling with facial pain and muscle tension in my head due to ongoing jaw clenching. Felt like he was talking to me!! ❤
Thank you so much Sara.
Thank you for this video. I have scoliosis and that diagnosis has been ingrained in me since I was 10! I’m 28 now. I know I can do this! Thank you Dan 🙏
Hi Dan, you are so right! After many years of stretching and exercising, I realized it was self made tension. Why, because I could be limping in horrific hip, leg, back pain and when I got down on the floor and rolled out my tight muscles, I could get up and be 98% better. Now, I can almost talk myself into loosening up the area by thinking about it! Ugh....I wasted so much time and worry for nothing. Fear, fear, fear...have had doctors who told me it is age and I should get used to it because I will not ever heal. Thanks for all you do!
You are quite welcome Karen.
better late than never ❤
Dr. Schechter discusses this topic in his book, Think Away Your Pain. He says he has a nuanced view of pain that includes “only TMS, only structural, or sometimes in a VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE of patients it can be a combination of both.” I agree with him. I damaged my left inner ear when a firecracker exploded an inch away from it. There is irreparable damage. It’s not going to heal. I will never hear normally in that ear ever again. But I know that my hypervigilance and anxiety have made the pain and hyperacusis worse. And I know that doing the TMS work will get me significantly better. It has in the past. When my life gets better, my ear pain and hyperacusis get about 80% better. When I’m under severe stress, when I’m focusing on the ear all day long, when I’m depressed, the ear pain and hyperacusis get much worse. My favorite quote these days is “love your life more than you hate your pain.”
Dr. Schechter concludes by saying that while this combination of TMS and structural represents a “relatively small percentage of my overall TMS practice, I think this may be helpful to those who struggle with the black and white, either/or approach of some writing in this field.”
Great insight Rick. And thanks for the quote. If I may, I will share that in the Facebook community.
@@PainFreeYou Thanks, Dan. Yes, of course, feel free to share it in the Facebook community. And thanks for doing a video on this topic!
Is this not the best quote I ever heard thank you!
love your life more than you hate your pain.”
Thank you! Finally, someone who is willing to say it is a combination of both structural and Mind Body Syndrome. I’m getting tired of hearing experts say it is ALL Mind Body Syndrome, and only considering the prospect of Mind Body preceding and causing chronic illness, and not the other way around, where chronic illness can cause Mind Body Syndrome. It is well-known that people with Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s or MS, can have Mind Body Syndrome as a comorbid condition.
I have had chronic illness for 34+ years, but because I have always prioritized exercise my whole life, I managed to avoid symptoms of Mind Body Syndrome for 30 years. Basically, my chronic illness finally took it’s toll on me, and I am glad to have found out that my new symptoms are Mind Body Syndrome, because that means I have hope of reversing my new symptoms, but that doesn’t make my pre-existing conditions go away. According to your reference from Dr. Schechter’s book, my situation is apparently unique, but I do wish more people would address this situation.
My grandmother was a genius. She had sciatica and it allowed her to do what she wanted and protected her from doing the things she didn’t want to. She had structural damage that was apparent and the pain kept her from doing things..But her brother had the same structural thing she did (a genetic hip deformity) and he did whatever he wanted..it did not hinder him at all. Our MindBody can be much smarter than we give Credit. I am Stuck in a nasty addiction and my MindBody is not going to let up until I gain control and move forward with my life. I know this but addictions are hard.
We all must believe and practice and visualize, no matter what our hurdle is
@@johnwest1999
Agreed! That is what I am doing.
You are greater than the program Kathleen!! You will overcome this! its not easy, but you can and will do it. Make the decision and be persistent . Your brain naturally does not like change, so you will be uncomfortable. But like Nicole Sachs says , we have two choices. What hurts vs what hurts worse. Pick your struggle. Choose to go with the temporary short term discomfort of getting rid of the pain programming in your head.
@@diehardpatriot3
I agree! And it Hurts!
I find this video verrryyyy helpful. I had low back pain, and a big scoliosis . I heard about TMS, believed in it, and my pain went away, and my scoliosis too!! Here I am, few months later, my pain came back, this time It feels harder to accept that it is not structural, because the scoliosis came back, and I have been diagnosed with scoliosis and degenerated disc, but what is "funny" is that when I relax very much, my scoliosis seems to reduce. I stayed scoliosis too many times right 😅😋
So yes, thank you for explaining this, because we are told that if the body is doing funny staff it must be the cause of the pain, but yes as you say it actually may be the other way around! 😊
Scoliosis is a deformity of the bones. That doesn't go away and come back. Just like my body was all twisted, it was simply muscles that were out of balance. You don't have scoliosis. You likely have muscles that go into spasm, get tight and pull the alignment of your back crooked. That is way different than scoliosis. It's all TMS and will go away. Implement the concepts in this one video and you can become pain free. ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
I've had this question floating in my mind for a while. It's just really hard for me to believe that pain/tension doesn't come from being sedentary. On the other hand, over the summer, I challenged myself to walk and run everyday (and move around a lot during the day) and my pain didn't decrease. I didn't notice a difference in my anxiety or depression either. People always say exercise heals, but it didn't do anything for me, except the post workout endorphin high.
I keep feeling like maybe I need to lift weights to strengthen and tone my muscles and maybe that'll heal me, because that's one thing that I've never tried. I've been told that my muscles were really tight and pulling my bones/joints out of alignment (like you stated in the video), and that's what causing my discomfort. But, there have been many times in the past where I've felt zero pain/tension and I didn't exercise. *SIGH*
I wish I never got so deep into the world of health/science. It's so many arguments and theories and they all make sense, which causes further confusion and frustration. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss. Lol
One thing that I do know about me: I keep feeling like I'm not doing enough, whether that's in my health, professional life, love life, etc. I'm constantly feeling like I need to do more and more. That's probably why relaxation is challenging for me. I keep coming into these clarifying moments in regards to my habits, behavior, and hidden emotions, and it'll make me feel good for a few moments, but then I'm right back to being anxious and searching for more answers.----As I reread this last sentence, it honestly sounds like an addiction. Holy shit. 😳
Listen to your Body. I think we sometimes listen to our Mind and that is what messes us up. I have an addiction and I know I will not feel better until I overcome this and move on with my life. This thing takes some Introspection.
Pain comes from your brain. If you are afraid of being sedentary you will feel more pain. If you are afraid that your weight causes tissue damage you will be afraid when you move and your brain interprets the novel sensations you're having while moving as dangerous.
We need to decouple weight stigma and the messaging around being at a higher weight or being inactive as the trigger for pain. The fear is a far greater trigger. There are lots of bigger folks who are not in any pain at all.
If you can implement the concepts in this video, you can end your pain. Being sedentary does not hurt. I do not work out much at all. I'm at my desk much of the day. Zero pain for over 10 years. Here's the action plan. Watch. Take notes. Take action. ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
Thank you for your work!!❤❤❤
You are so welcome!
So helpful and makes complete sense. Did your client with EDS notice that her dislocations were eliminated as well as her pain? Fascinating stuff.
Yes. Likely because when TMS stopped creating muscle tension and spasms, they stopped pulling the joints/ribs out.
That's exciting. I have a hypermobility syndrome diagnosis with daily subluxations starting in childhood. I've been told there's nothing more that can be done other than manage the pain and fatigue. I refuse to accept that.
Dear Dan, thanks a lot for this video! I do have jaw joint disc displacement with reduction, but for most people its asymptomatic change and even some maxiofacial surgeons said it shouldn't be the cause of the sensations I have in face and that they are rather muscular. But as nothing was helping I kept "pursuing" joints as cause and wanted a confirmation for that. I was searching desperately for the cause as it would give me some kind of "safety". Strange but true. And because pain started after getting teeth braces, it was a perfect "thing" to blame for discs and also for the pain. So, when this one specialist later did confirm it comes from joints, I got some kind of "relief". And final confirmation I am not crazy or "imagining" the pain. Anyway, cause no physical therapy or teeth splints really helped, I started doubting in tmj. This specialist did have some other kind of protocol: mandibula protraction and suggested me getting new splint. But actually, I am sick of trying, sick of splints, sick of that nothing works. So, the idea of tms as accepting the pain and stop trying to fix it sounds so heavenly to me. But it is not easy and it is especially for me difficult to distance myself from that structural abnormality. I also have cracking in joint..what I have never ever noticed in my life before all of this. The question is..maybe I was born with this disc displacement and braces had nothing to do with it. Maybe its just "accidental" discovery on mri. So many maybes...But your video definitively cleared this a bit up for me. Why would it be the cause of my pain if most of people are asymptomatic? And if it is tmj why it doesn't resolve with time as It does for most people. Why it doesn't respond on therapies? So, the only possible answer is...because it is tms. Thanks once more! :)
Yes, TMS is the only thing that makes sense.
I had a really bad back pain as a kid. So much so I was kept at a hospital for 2 weeks. At that time, my family was going through some very hard times. I was the eldest child and way too much was put on my shoulders (and back!). Doctors told me I have a mild scoliosis and that I have to stop ridding. My horse was my only source of freedom and support then and I still remember vividly, as the doctor was speaking, I had already decided in my mind that there’s no way I would stop ridding. I was 11. Thanks to a great public health care, after that 2 week hospital stay, I was also sent into 2 week rehabilitation-spa program for kids. First “holiday” I have had as a kid, i had such a great time that whole month. My back pain disappeared after that. Even though family struggle got even worse in the years after. No sign of scoliosis again. I think that “threat” of taking my horse ridding away in combination with finally feeling safe, having fun and being taken care off did the trick.
Thank you, Dan! Important framing of a topic that comes up a lot for those of us in the struggle. I would really appreciate seeing those “before” images of your back. The visual helps reinforce the talk in a powerful way. Thank you again for your work! ✊🏽
Cheers Dan, I'm some way into this and am 100% convinced it's TMS. On the odd occasion in the middle of the night I have seconds of doubt. You videos bring me bsck where I need to be.
Awesome.
Hi Dan! Thanks so much for the video link you had given me to watch. That video and watching your other daily videos has really helped me to keep what I have known for a long time to be true about TMS but just got sidetracked in my thinking. Funny cause my pain has been traveling this week as I reconfirmed in my own mind what is going on with me. It even caused a toothache to the point where someone could think they have a problem enough to see a dentist and get that addressed. I kept telling my brain that I knew it was another place TMS was trying to hide and lo and behold, woke up today to that tooth being just fine. Amazing! Thanks for what you do! 😊
You are very welcome Angela! And yes, TMS can be quite a theater.
God bless you Dan.... This is very important video for when you think its structural. It is easy to think it is but ur explanation is crystal clear. Thank you 🙏
So many people get stuck on this. I'm glad you thought the video explained it well.
This was excellent.. i have exactly the same back you had.. bottom right .. twisted hips from ache .. you're really getting me through this .. i beat bsck pain reasding gis book 7 years ago.. i must again..
You will. Mine straightened out on it's own when I lost the fear and ended the pain.
this is a topic ive seen brought up time and time again. Great video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hello Dan! My first post here even though I’ve been watching your videos for months. I’ve got a compendium of issues in my back: protruding disks, loss of the natural lordosis, facet joint syndrome, scoliosis and arthritis in my spine. Luckily all surgeons say it’s not worth operating as it would represent a risk. I’ve been in pain for almost three years and for half that length of time, I’ve followed a TMS treatment. I’ve got better days than others. Two days ago I went for a run despite the discomfort and I might have overdone it because last night I had quite intense low back pain and today I am moving like a 90 year old man even if I am 50. This video was magically very relevant to what is going around in my head now. It’s hard for me to accept it’s not structural with all the number of things which came up on my MRIs.
As you learn more about TMS, you learn that 2/3 of people with NO pain have abnormalities on their MRI's. Our bodies are not perfect. These are NORMAL abnormalities.
Your brain perceived that the run was dangerous so it amped up the pain to make sure you don't run again. This video explains the way to end the pain: ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
Great video ! This guy is helping so many people. He deserves a lot ! One question. Any pain that becomes chronic is Tms?
Not necessarily. Pain can begin for any reason. TMS or a real injury. Chronic pain is learned pain. Meaning, fear and attention on the pain can teach the brain there is something "wrong" there so it keeps the pain going to protect us from "hurting ourselves" further. Here's a video on that topic: ruclips.net/video/UiJhpwfPpcw/видео.html
Wowowowow I so needed to hear this today, thank you
Bummer I can’t show pics, but I went from in shape, to Achilles tendinitis at the beginning of Covid, to getting fat because I couldn’t walk for five months so I would just sit around drinking beer. Four years and a few gout attacks later, I dropped 60 pounds. In the meantime, I spent that driving in a Toyota Corolla doing sales about six hours a day in the car. I’m 6’0” 180lb now, I was up to 235 then. When I decided to lose weight, I starved myself and didn’t do any exercise whatsoever during the weight loss or in the four years prior. In my case, I really do feel like the rapid weight loss revealed a bunch of restrictions that I had been compensating for in my body, and working through those to my goal of correcting my posture, there has been undeniable tangible changes. My girlfriend is witnessed some wild joint repositioning such as my knee, as well as seeing restrictions. Release leading to lots of immediate digestive sounds. I wish I could show the pics of how twisted up my leg was from all the driving, years of compensations, probably working around the tendinitis and gout flareups that never chilled. So unless words, our persistent compensations, and TMS pain the same thing?
Hi Dan, I commented on another video yesterday and I leave a comment here to as I also have the diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. My jaw joints dislocated a lot already as a child, and in my late 40's I had so much structural damage in one of my jaw joints (in a way that prevented the joint to move enough to chew). I was in alot of pain at that time and I will never know how much of that pain was TMS. I got a total jaw joint replacement, so now I have a functional jaw joint (and the pain disappeared right after the operation). I have other pain problem (pelvic pain) but the MRI doesn't show structural damage, I am sure that's TMS, because any damage should have healed by now.
There are certainly times when medical interventions are necessary. But it is much less than we are lead to believe. I'm really glad they got your jaw situation handled for you. And I would agree with your assessment that the pelvic pain sounds like TMS. How pain behaves is much more important than any imaging study. Danbuglio.com/paintest
I had a work accident and seriously damaged my neck in 2016. I had a cervical fusion at c6/7. I was out of work for nearly 2 years. I’ve had numbness and tingling in my hand and fingers ever since. The pain stays away for long periods of time then returns. Recently it’s returned pretty intense. If it’s structural would the pain come and go. I answered yes to nearly all the TMS questions
If symptoms come and go and you score high on the assessment, then your body has healed from the accident and surgery. Symptoms are due to the brain perceiving danger. My fast start playlist explains what is happening and what to do. DansFastStart.com
Hey Dan! Your videos have been so refreshing and this one was spot-on for me. After a year of shoulder pain, I finally got an MRI showing a partial rotator cuff tear. I got referred to an ortho Dr. who is most likely going to send me to PT. But from what I’ve learned and seeing this connect to this video, they say you can live with it w/o treatment. Feel like I know what your answer will be, but wondering if I should continue with OT or just stick to the TMS work? Thanks for all your wise words!
With the TMS approach, you can teach your brain that the tear is minor and there is no need for the pain. ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
My TMJ is gone after figuring stuff out. My jaw disc has not dislocated since I learned about TMS.
Great video as always, so reassuring 🙏 thank you
So glad!
My last comment might read frazzled but I'm pretty calm. I'm not in much pain at the moment. Binders are the reason.
I'm just curious how you make something all psychological when you feel proof of toxicity being present and when it's pulled out the pain is so low or gone. Not as a placebo, but as a night and day, certainty
Real issues do occur. But the brain perceiving danger can absolutely intensify symptoms and sensitivities to things that would normally not be "toxic". Safety is the way forward regardless. As long as you believe the world is poisonous to you, your brain will seek to protect you with symptoms. Teaching the brain you are safe is the way to reduce the sensitivity to normal elements in the air.
I'm really stuck on my situation because I had mold affect me and I had no idea until recently, so what would be learned about it?
I also see people do extreme mold avoidance, which means you avoid outdoor air toxicity and they can walk for miles again. They become like new. I sort of hate this because I don't want their life. I want to heal anywhere. I want to be with my family and sort of think unmasking to outdoor toxicity is kind of coddling the body rather then asking it to be a better detoxer anywhere.
The whole thing is beyond confusing. I do know that if I didn't use binders I wouldn't be alive. I also became unmasked to outdoor toxicity that was life threatening so it's like I've seen proof for this insane story these people tell.
For reference: "Beginner's Guide to Mold Avoidance" covers this phenomena.
Hi Dan, what is your take on the frozen shoulder and it's treatment (like cortison intra-articular shots )..
Did you meet many people with that?
It obviously freaked me out. Not something that you recommend 😮
So my Tmj is structural and tms. The left joint is almost gone but it has osteoarthritis. So there's some pain from that, but I keep reinjuring due to clenching. That's mostly during sleep. You bet it's from the subconscious!
The best way to know is to take the pain test for each area of pain. YourPainTest.com
To the lady with the jaw pain (TMJ) is also TMS. The jaw may realign with a splint but pain can still say. Funny thing is my jaw was dislocated but the pain was in neck and eyes. This is same as any pain back, knee, shoulder.... Its all DARN TMS 😩
Thank you Ans. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts with the lady with the jaw pain.
I heard a popin my jaw..i had pain and have had pain 4 two years along with a GRINDING sound..inhave trouble openong mouth and chewing..All this happened under extreme stress..I was ct scanned and was told.my.jaw was pulled.forward..they wanted to.split it and religned it n do prolotherapy for rk..Money I did not have...o declined and the crunching grind is still there any i have to.watch what o eat..i have heard the surgery is last resort.and odten fails...i pray this is tms but the grinding sound n feel.makes.me.feel that it is strucutal.
@@PainFreeYou read my story..ehat would u say if u felt n.heard a pop n ur jaw and for 2 yrs after GRINDING noise in feel as well.as tightness and pai. Whem chewing..i had ct scan.which showed i pulled.jaw joint away from.condyle...its been 2 yrs..i wont do surgery because of.high failure rate. I.hope this is TMS
@@kalosevillinas Take the pain test - that will help you determine if it's TMS or not. DanBuglio.com/paintest. You can also answer the 30 questions at: PPDAssociation.org/symptoms - the more you answer YES to, the more likely it is to be TMS.
Noise does not cause pain. TMS can cause muscle tension and spasm which can pull joints and jaws out of alignment. This may explain what is going on. Take the assessments above. If it indicates TMS, the video below is the way OUT of this. ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
My question today ..
I wake up with jaw pain from clenching and grinding teeth at night and can’t chew. I have a mouth splint too that the dentist made but doesn’t take pain way. Does that mean my muscles are injured because of overuse and I can’t recover? Like you said about the injury of the broken bone and the person keeps re injuring it so it’s not tms?
It is very difficult in one paragraph to be able to tell you if your experience is TMS or not. However, you can find out with some assessments. I believe muscles get stronger with use, not injured.
DanBuglio.com/paintest - a score over 29 means your pain behaves like TMS and not a structural problem.
Answer the 30 questions here. The more you say YES to, the more likely your pain is from TMS. PPDAssocation.org/symptoms
After a mild concussion I’ve been having vision issues like convergence insufficiency. My MRI and CAT scans were normal. I feel like my eyes out of balance. Under a lot stress and suffer from anxiety. Can vision problems be MBS?
TMS?
Stress and fear can absolutely create muscle tension in the body. If the muscles that become tense are the muscles that control the eyes, that tension can pull them out of alignment and create some visual disturbances. If the doctors cannot find a physical/structural/injury cause, there is literally no downside to applying the knowledge and safety approach to teaching the brain we are fine. There is only benefit and no downside.
ruclips.net/video/g5xWR6eBlb8/видео.html
@@PainFreeYou Thank you so much Dan. I really appreciate your quick reply and reassuring words. I’ve been watching your videos and listening: knowledge therapy. You’re a blessing my brother! Good karma coming your way. 👍😃🙏
Dan, I had pain on and off for a few years in my lower back . About a year and a half after I retired I started to get numbness in my foot had a MRI and was told it was spondylolisthesis. Now I have pain in my back and leg when standing or walking after awhile. I don’t recall doing anything to my back to cause this spondylolisthesis. Could this be TMS or is this really a structural problem? Thanks in advance for any comments.
Thank you for videos, watching they regularly. Question: if TMS pain mostly caused by tension, should the relaxation/sleep always be helpful in reducing the pain? My pain is stronger when I do not move(in the morning; after sitting) comparing to when I move.
There's more to it than relaxing the muscular tension. What about emotionally tense that causes the muscular tension? My overall strategies for ending the pain are here: ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
What about osteoarthritis, where the limitation of movement is very real. Has anyone ever healed the TMS way after such a diagnosis?
Do the pain test for areas that hurt. That will tell you if your pain is from the osteo or from the brain. (TMS/Perceived Danger Pain)
YourPainTest.com
In my opinion , if somebody had an injury and since then NEVER rested it , their pain is not tms AND structural. It's just structural. And even those people can heal if they rest long enough. There are Plenty of examples of people with real rsi/recurring injury from lack of rest after an injury and they heal when they rest. It is however possible to have a structural injury but also have tms, but at that point the root cause is still structural so its in fact structural pain. Rest in general is also overrated when healing physical trauma. When you sprain an ankle, drs tell you to start walking on it as soon as you can tolerate it (they do not say to wait until all the pain is gone). I have sprained my ankle more than a few times and the healing occurred a lot faster when I started to stop babying it and start using it as soon as it was tolerable. One time I babied a wrist sprain and after 6 weeks it still hurt and was extremely weak. I told myself never again. Obviously dont go doing intense exercise after an injury but I believe returning to normal human functions like walking, light jogs, and picking and lifting practical items should be returned to ASAP after any injury. The tissues need oxygen & stimulation and your brain needs to learn youre okay. I know a physical therapist who works with the newly injured and he shared with me that a large goal of physical therapy after an injury is really just to teach the person that they are not broken and help them get over the fear of movement.Personal Trainer Tim grover (he trained Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan) said that the moment Kobe Bryant got up and shot some free throws after tearing his Achilles, was the moment his healing began. I never got that , but I realize its because Kobe did not stay on the floor and lick his wounds (God bless his soul). Im sure that let his brain relax more than the average brain would after tearing achilles. Kobe played through lots of pain in his career and its my understanding he didnt experience chronic pain. long comment but I hope this insight helps someone.
to add to this, structural pain would not have a lot of the phantom qualities brain pain has . If you've done physical activity just once without any pain before and after that is evidence that the pain is false learned pain in my opinion . Structural pain would hurt every time, without fail .
Its helping me
Hey guys, hoping you can help me out. Is 'unlearn your pain' still in print? I'm looking on line but all I can seem to find are second hand copies at ridiculous prices. 🙏
its on kindle brother for $20 . you can read it from any electronic device
diehardpatriot3 thanks. 🙏
I was dx with Advanced Osteoporosis at 52 and my bones have deteriorated for the past 6 years. My bones are like a woman in her 80s-90s. I believe the root cause is childhood trauma and being stuck in fight or flight all my life.
I’m doing Brain Retraining and believing that as my system is moving into a healing and restoring state that my bones are being restored. I’ll be getting a DEXA scan in April and will see if the brain work is making a difference. Do you have any experience with this?
No I don't. I focus on eliminating pain by teaching the brain we are already okay. I don't focus on body structure.
@@PainFreeYou ok thank you
Hi Dan I have a question, I had an EMG test (with needles) requested by the neurologist because I have had weakness and muscle pain in my arms since May, now it appears that I have an old damage, the muscles are a bit affected, and is irreparable, can try to reduce pain complaints with physiotherapy, I am very shocked, can no longer carry out my hobbies ... this is structural, isn't it? does tms still make sense? Greetings Anja from the Netherlands
I cannot tell you since I'm not a doctor and don't fully understand the tests done and the results. However, if you take the pain test and it indicates TMS, I believe you can get well. DanBuglio.com/paintest
@@PainFreeYou Quiz Score Action
You scored: 36 out of a possible 50 points.
@@amrara1004 This means your symptoms are TMS and not structural/physical. You can get well. Here are my suggestions: ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
Why do some people that do Egoscue (exercises to improve posture) get better?
It could be placebo. Tough go give a universal answer. Pain is either structural or TMS. TMS behaves very differently than structural issues. Take the pain test. If it says TMS, then posture isn't the solution. DanBuglio.com/paintest
Can you explain how non TMS behaves?
@@staceypollack808 take Dan's pain test and the FIT test he also includes on his website... Structural pain is usually constant, in one specific part of the body, etc.
40 degrees 😂, here in Florida i haven't even had the pleasure to turn my heater on. Im excited to bust out my only sweater 😂. Please God send a cold front soon 🙏😁
36 here this morning in PA. haha
how does one deal with pain in SLEEP, it's not like we can become indifferent to it, because we are unconscious... we aren't busy panicking over pain during sleep... pain wakes me up every day.
We can't do anything to prevent the pain from waking us. But we can choose how we respond to it. ruclips.net/video/9mO8FtKsSJw/видео.html
@@PainFreeYou what i meant is, how do you choose your response while you are unconscious?
@@elaineremains You said "pain wakes me up every day." When it wakes you up, that is when you choose how you respond.
@@elaineremains For example, when the pain wakes you up, how do you respond?
@@PainFreeYou i don't respond badly, i'm sleepy and relaxed, i'm not sure what to do
I was nearly pain free two weeks ago. I started doing basic exercise and chores which required light lifting and bending. Four days ago just before getting out of bed I was stretching and felt a ‘pop’ at the base of my spine on the right side. ‘Ouch’ My pain is usually on the left side at the base of my spine. It has been extremely sore for 3-4 days. Hard to do any bending, let alone lifting. Going from sitting to standing is quite difficult. Is it possible that I just pulled a muscle? Perhaps due to the fear of using my low back muscles agin? Dr. Sarno recommends that we get back to normal physical movement and exercise. Not sure what to do here, I just know it hurts like hell 24/7.
The brain still believes the movement/chores are dangerous. They aren't. Teach your brain that by visualizing yourself doing them pain free with a smile before you start. And then, if the pain does come. Laugh at it and do not respond with anger or fear. The solution? This:
ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
I am sorry don't take me wrong, I saw the pictures it is horrible, but it may not cause agonizing 24/7 continues pain, like a blownup sensitized nerve pain, I understand u may have had bad muscle related pain , and the tendon pulling to the bones, but like if u lie down u may forgot pain, I am asking coz I have continues 24/7 small nerve fiber peripheral neuropathy, and it's very severe severe pain, my father also had same spine like u, he would walk holding walls , but he dint cry coz of pain, I am just crying writhing, I can feel every fiber and nerve of in the feet , I can feel like ten thousand needles stabed in my feet even while I am resting,
I understand. Your pain is unrelenting. However, the severity of the pain does not change the solution. Yes, it may be more challenging for you due to how strong and distracting the pain is. However, you can always remind yourself of the cause of it, reassure yourself that it is temporary and work on the suggestions in this video: ruclips.net/video/3vJgBnrhFt8/видео.html
@@PainFreeYou wow , true it doesn't change the solution 🙏🙏🙏🙏