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TMS Equivalents
What Are TMS Equivalents?Tension Myositis equivalents are another way to describe psychologically induced pain syndromes. Originally, Dr. John Sarno, father of all things TMS, diagnosed the condition as a muscular pain syndrome, hence the nomenclature Tension Myositis Syndrome. Time and experience refined Dr. Sarno’s theories and soon he was diagnosing a condition that seemed to affect far more bodily systems than first thought. While the name TMS stuck, the condition itself really is much more than tension based muscular back pain, as the name suggests.Psychogenic TMS EquivalentsPsychogenic pain is caused by a psychological process but experienced in the physical body. TMS pain is not imaginary, nor exaggerated, nor experienced for some secondary gain. These are ideas that have been suggested by many traditional physicians in an attempt to categorize TMS as a non-condition. It is no surprise that most doctors do not understand TMS, knowledge therapy or the incredible success Dr. Sarno has achieved with his ideas on the true nature of lasting pain. These medical professionals have not been trained in mind/body medicine and actually deny the ability of the mind to cause physical symptoms.Varieties of TMS EquivalentsEven Dr. Sarno is not sure how many health disorders are actually part of the TMS diagnosis. It seems that new conditions become associated with the diagnosis every week. Knowledge therapy has worked wonders for patients suffering from all sorts of chronic problematic disorders affecting almost every system in the body. Skin to muscle, nerve to organ, sensory to motor function, TMS affects the variety of systems, sensations and bodily functions that make us human beings. One thing seems sure; psychosomatic pain is universal. The only variables are when, where, how long and how severely it occurs…Recommendation on TMS EquivalentsI suffered from misdiagnosed back pain for 18 years. I was often crippled by the pain and literally could not function. Eventually, I repudiated the diagnoses of the various physical scapegoats that had been blamed for my horrific back pain. I learned that my pain was truly psychosomatic and was able to cure myself 100%. After this epiphany, I realized that many of the other symptoms that plagued me (to a lesser extent than back pain) were also psychogenic in origin. In my case, it was a super sensitive digestive tract, wrist pain, knee pain and headaches that turned out to be the equivalents of TMS. They did not happen all at once, but instead, came and went in cycles or in sequence throughout my life.I am not a person who believes in what might seem like “new age psychobabble.” I am a normal guy who thought he had pain due to his herniated discs and degenerative disc disease. I never would have guessed that this type of pain was even possible from a psychological causation. Thank God I learned the true facts, before my life was spent and my days were exhausted suffering from this terrible ordeal. My most sincere recommendation is to learn. Learn why your pain is not going away despite multiple treatments. Learn why your symptoms are not consistent. Learn how many of the conditions that bother you might be much more (psychological) and much less (physical) than they seem.
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