Chronic Pain / TMS / PPD

Chronic pain is a mystery when looked at strictly from a medical perspective. Doctors are often perplexed and do not have the answers to cure or treat the pain effectively. Many people with chronic pain continue to suffer, experience depression & anxiety, and have a low level of functioning, despite their best efforts at medical, and maybe even alternative, treatments.

Chronic pain is very real, it is the cause of the pain we must rethink. However, there is often much more going on with pain than just what’s happening in the tissues of the body. Recent studies have shown that common chronic pain issues like low-back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia symptoms, abdominal & pelvic pain, headaches, and repetitive stress injury are often not due to strictly structural causes, but are more the result of psycho-physiological processes, that when properly addressed, can dramatically improve or eliminate pain. Many persons suffering from chronic pain aren't aware of the help that is available to them when their pain is addressed with a different treatment approach than the standard medical treatments they've tried.

Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS), a term coined by Dr. John Sarno of New York University Medical Center, also called PPD (Psycho-Physiological Disorder), is a syndrome that is often responsible for many forms of chronic pain; although, this concept is not generally recognized by modern medicine. There are often many stress-based factors, from both our past and present, underlying chronic physical pain, that when addressed can resolve or dramatically improve this type of pain.