Tension Myositis Pain
Tension myositis pain is one of the least universally recognized and understood types of chronic suffering. This is extremely ironic, since mindbody disorders are universal in humankind, with the only differences being the expression, location, severity and duration of symptoms from person to person. I have never met a person who was completely unaffected by their emotions and I will speculate that a person such as this has never existed... Not now. Not ever.
Tension myositis syndrome
(TMS) is a condition that affects millions of patients around the world. It is a neuromuscular pain syndrome that is created by a psychological process, as opposed to a physical structural causation. The vast majority of patients with tension myositis never find relief due to the lack of an accurate
diagnosis.
Most are theorized to be suffering from some coincidental structural issue, while the real source of pain resides solely in the mind, not the body.
Tension Myositis Pain Symptoms
TMS is a condition that affects each patient in a different way. The majority of victims have pain in the lower back. Many might experience pain in the neck, middle back, shoulder, hip, wrist, knee or any other area of the body. While back pain is often the primary symptom of TMS, many patients also display additional symptoms and pain syndromes in other bodily systems. It is crucial to remember that not all patients suffer physical pain. Some have alternative expressions ranging from purely physical symptoms, such as burning, tingling, numbness or weakness to mindbody combination syndromes like OCD, depression and anxiety. Additional information on these substitute pain conditions can be found on my page titled
psychologically induced pain syndromes.
Causes of Tension Myositis Pain
The actual physical symptoms are typically caused by a regional process called
ischemia.
This oxygen deprivation of bodily tissues is purposefully enacted by the patient’s subconscious mind. The mind uses the pain as a defense mechanism against unresolved and repressed sensitive emotional issues. Physical pain makes a great distraction, since it really holds the patient’s attention and becomes the focus of the patient’s conscious thoughts. There is certainly the possibility that many other processes can be used to enact symptoms utilizing the autonomic system, the endocrine system and the circulatory system, as well as others. Read more about the epidemic incidence of
oxygen deprivation back pain.
Recommendation on Tension Myositis Pain
Most patients with TMS never know it. They work their way through the medical and alternative heath care systems with little or no success. They often try many therapies with mediocre or poor results. Their doctors are usually puzzled by their
treatment resistant pain
and often resort to providing
symptomatic treatment
only. The patient continues to suffer for years and truly learns the meaning of the word
FRUSTRATION.
I suffered with TMS pain for 18 years without knowing it. My pain was blamed on a variety of
back pain scapegoats,
including
degenerative disc disease
and a couple of
herniated discs.
Lucky for me, I was able to discover the real nature of my pain and find a cure. While it is true that my relief was short-lived, some patients have benefited greatly and permanently using purely psychologically-based approaches to care, like knowledge therapy. My pain has returned with renewed fury for several years now. However, I still recognize the importance of
Dr. John Sarno's
work in the mindbody field and always recommend that patients read his materials if they have not been able to find a cure of their own despite active medical care.
Tension Myositis Pain to Back Pain
1/9/07 Revised 2/5/12
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