10 Myths About Lower Back Pain (LBP)

[VonMeister]

VM why do you think the psych side of the Sarno books are "arguably garbage?"

I think Sarno overcomplicates and casts too many broad strokes.....and his work is a little outdated. I get why....there's a lot of books out there saying the same thing. I don't think it's a bad book but I think it better explains things like Fibromyalgia and Long Covid than back pain.

More importantly, there is evidence that pain education can result in improvement in chronic pain and if Sarno's book piques a persons curiosity in going down that rabbit hole then his book is fine. I've given it to friends who have been sedentary due to LBP and not ready to make any lifestyle changes.

It truly is as simple as...you're not broken....activity to tolerance, increase as able.

Pain is not injury. I have as much or more pain than the next guy but unless I'm sick with a fever...I train.

 

[VonMeister]

My older sister heard something "pop" while golfing and is experiencing back pain. I told her, "I've got a book you should read."

I heard a pop while golfing yesterday. It was the ball hitting the pin on an uphill par 3 than I couldn't see. I thought for sure I had my second HI1 but I was 5 feet and ball mark on the edge of the hole.

 

[laidback]

I heard a pop while golfing yesterday. It was the ball hitting the pin on an uphill par 3 than I couldn't see. I thought for sure I had my second HI1 but I was 5 feet and ball mark on the edge of the hole.

3 putt?

 

[Random Guy]

I took some time off from the gym and returned back this week
deadlifts, squats, you know the drill
did some Nordic curls and other stuff too

yesterday my lower back was tweaked out, and I skipped surf and the gym, and walked a lot but nothing else
today it’s even worse
every time I get up from sitting down, I’ve got that spasm thing going on
if i just twist my body a bit, I’m making those old man noises
jeezus fvcking christ, I’m a mess

i just checked the local librarys web site, and they don’t have the book availqble

looks like I’m off to Barnes and noble so I can read the fvcking book again

 

[Autoprax]

Pause is going up?

Post strength training DOMS very negatively affects my surf performance. Otherwise I only notice back pain when trying to ride my shortboard. Shoulder/neck pain is a constant no matter what I ride and it accumulates if I surf multiple days in a row which I've been a lot the past couple months. Going to have to research shoulder strength....

Nathan must be one of those gifted athletes that repsonds well to training. And he's in his twenties...

Age is defiantly a factor.

It's BS to think 60 is the new 40.

 

[Autoprax]

I took some time off from the gym and returned back this week
deadlifts, squats, you know the drill
did some Nordic curls and other stuff too

yesterday my lower back was tweaked out, and I skipped surf and the gym, and walked a lot but nothing else
today it’s even worse
every time I get up from sitting down, I’ve got that spasm thing going on
if i just twist my body a bit, I’m making those old man noises
jeezus fvcking christ, I’m a mess

i just checked the local librarys web site, and they don’t have the book availqble

looks like I’m off to Barnes and noble so I can read the fvcking book again

When you return to training you have to go back so so easy.

Give your self a couple of weeks to get use to it.

Your nervous system got spooked.

Try this

 

[Autoprax]

I think Sarno overcomplicates and casts too many broad strokes.....and his work is a little outdated. I get why....there's a lot of books out there saying the same thing. I don't think it's a bad book but I think it better explains things like Fibromyalgia and Long Covid than back pain.

More importantly, there is evidence that pain education can result in improvement in chronic pain and if Sarno's book piques a persons curiosity in going down that rabbit hole then his book is fine. I've given it to friends who have been sedentary due to LBP and not ready to make any lifestyle changes.

It truly is as simple as...you're not broken....activity to tolerance, increase as able.

Pain is not injury. I have as much or more pain than the next guy but unless I'm sick with a fever...I train.

Pain is just a fallible signaling system.

It's that simple.

To think that it's always wrong is wrong.

 

[Random Guy]

I have a party to go to tonight I only know the hosts

everyone is going to think I’ve got Tourette’swith me suddenly making these horrendous “aughhh” sounds every couple of minutes
I really didn’t want to got to this party anyway, but I don’t want to use this as an excuse

 

[Mr J]

I took some time off from the gym and returned back this week
deadlifts, squats, you know the drill
did some Nordic curls and other stuff too

yesterday my lower back was tweaked out, and I skipped surf and the gym, and walked a lot but nothing else
today it’s even worse
every time I get up from sitting down, I’ve got that spasm thing going on
if i just twist my body a bit, I’m making those old man noises
jeezus fvcking christ, I’m a mess

i just checked the local librarys web site, and they don’t have the book availqble

looks like I’m off to Barnes and noble so I can read the fvcking book again

your description of pain is the sort of thing that used to happen to me. I used to feel something go when I was skateboarding or something and the pain would continue to build the rest of the day. The next day I would barely be able to walk and had to make robot like motions to completely limit any back movement at all. I used to live on the upper floor of an apartment and I remember getting up the next day after such an incident, looking at the stairs and realising that I was not going to make it down the stairs.

Then over the course of a week everything would calm down and I would be back on my board again ... until the next incident.

I can't help thinking that a possible scenario is that this natural recovery would happen while reading the book and then the sufferer would think the book has helped then because nothing structural has been fixed up its going to happen again. This is pure speculation of course and I haven't read the book, but get the impression from this thread it is just a psychological approach to dealing with pain rather than fixing the underlying problem, or am I totally off the mark?