How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010)
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How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010)
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Re: How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010)
#2For what it's worth, I read this recommendation a year or so a go and it helped a lot despite my initial skepticism. It's mostly a mindful awareness thing.
Re: How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010)
#3"Relax" to ease pain stemming from tension. Who would've thought.
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#4"Relax" to ease pain stemming from tension. Who would've thought.
It's actually hard to impossible to relax when you don't know the source of the tension. Finding that tension within a network of hundreds of billions of neurons can be like finding a single sand on the beach.
Worse, as time goes on you tend to compensate instead of resolving the root cause, leading to an increasingly complex web which you have to untangle first before being able to reach the root cause.
Most people die before any of the above is accomplished.
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#5"Relax" to ease pain stemming from tension. Who would've thought.
When you're deep inside a problem of many years, sometimes the simple solutions get easily overlooked.
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#6I'm another person cured of RSI by the same approach. Initially, when learning of TMS, the RSI got worse (progressing from just constant pain to feelings of numbness and nerve damage).
Certainly worth a look if you have RSI--clearly if people can be cured more or less overnight by just reading, there's SOME mental component, whether or not Dr. Sarno's explanations of the mechanisms of TMS are correct.
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#7Thank you for sharing. It's always great to learn about effective strategies to deal with/cure RSI; especially when so many said cures are failing. Already ordered the book, and I hope I won't be disappointed :)
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#8Two words: music physiotherapists. Musicians get RSI-type problems a lot, and when it's career-ending for a concert pianist, people really pay attention. Plus there's several hundred years of accumulated experience dealing with these problems.
I still have fluid around my tendons 20 years later, my RSI was so bad - visible roundness in my forearms - and I haven't had a day of pain in a decade. It took six sessions, and they only worked on my neck.
Highly recommended.
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#9I've been seeing this book pop up all over the place for the past year or so. It seems to be the go-to recommendation from friends to other friends who are frustrated at not finding relief from chronic pain after trying many other treatments.
I haven't read the book. All I can say is that the results, from my perspective, have been mixed. Some people who have tried it and not seen their pain alleviated blame themselves for not getting to the root of their stress. I haven't heard of anyone's pain disappearing in 2 weeks. I've heard people recommend it for all kinds of pain, not just muscle and back pain. Claims about its efficacy seem to have broadened over time.
The book is set at a very good "it can't hurt to try" price point, and the word of mouth marketing makes it very appealing to people who feel desperate.
I am a random person. My experiences are anecdotal.
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#10Never read the book, but psychology changes helped my RSI issues tremendously.
> if you are unconsciously worried about something (including worried about your wrists hurting while you type), then this can cause your wrists to hurt while you type.
This. If you're scared of RSI and scared of typing, that can itself cause problems.