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As the decades have gone by, the role of stress and mental stability in a patient’s life and the role that stress may play in a patient with lower back pain have become increasingly evident as a factor to always remember to consider. Dr. John Sarno did not invent the idea of somatization of stress as pain, but he certainly did a lot to popularize it and bring it to the awareness of patients and physicians alike. With his wildly popular book, The Mind-Body Connection, he introduced to the general population the concept (that he terms “tension myositis syndrome” or “TMS”) that emotional stress can and often does become realized as physical pain.
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Cooper, G. (2015). The Mind-Body Connection: Is Stress Important?. In: Non-Operative Treatment of the Lumbar Spine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21443-6_17
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