Reddit reviews The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

Here's a few more ideas for you:

• Theracane (use several times a day, as recommended by book in next bullet point)
  
• The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook
  
• Dry needling (in some states a PT can do this; in other states an accupunturist can approximate this, or a sports medicine doctor can do it)
  
• The Mind-Body Prescription - I know this sounds like mumbo-jumbo, but there's truly some good evidence that trigger points are partially/largely a physical response to psychological issues. When nothing else works, I highly recommend keeping an open mind and trying this out - I thought it sounded ridiculous, but after years of pain it cured my inability to use my right hand at work (for a mouse) in just a week. Lots of success stories from programmers here.

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Fellow musician and programmer here. Use my hands a lot, was experiencing painful RSI symptoms. Be open minded but I do recommend this book https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FA5SJS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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You'd be surprised at how much pain your own mind is inflicting on yourself right now. My hands feel amazing now. Good luck.

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I had severe 'chronic' carpal tunnel (also supposedly caused by a pinched nerve) for 5 years. No treatments worked, all my doctors were out of ideas and unaware that a cure even existed. Then I read this book and was completely and permanently cured in less than a month. It proposes a novel theory of chronic pain and how to cure it that worked for me and many others. I don't know if sciatic nerve pain is one of the things it can cure, but it sounds like it may be.

Dr. John Sarno caused quite a ruckus back in 1990 when he suggested that back pain is all in the head. In his bestselling book, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, he claimed that backaches, slipped discs, headaches, and other chronic pains are due to suppressed anger, and that once the cause of the anger is addressed, the pain will vanish. Relieved Amazon.com readers call this book "liberating" and say "it sounds too good to be true, but it is true." Sarno has returned with The Mindbody Prescription, in which he explains how emotions including guilt, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem can stimulate the brain to manufacture physical symptoms including fibromyalgia, repetitive strain injuries, migraine headaches, hay fever, colitis, ulcers, and even acne. If these psychosomatic problems all sound a little Freudian, what with the repression of emotions in the unconscious, it's because Sarno unapologetically borrows from Freud for the basis of his theory and cites childhood trauma as a major source of emotional problems. He also says that his program is a "talking cure" of sorts, since patients must be convinced their pain is rooted in their emotions before healing can begin.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FA5SJS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Fixed my tendinitis.

Don't believe the idiots saying "lul u tink taht ur mind cauze pain xDDd dummy... lern scienece idiot!!!!"