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Pain Free for Life: The 6-Week Cure for Chronic Pain--Without Surgery or Drugs

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Dr. John E. Sarno has been very successfully healing chronic pain through his mindbody treatment methods for over thirty years, and has himself written four books on the subject. Thousands of people have been cured just from reading his books. After a fruitless search through the conventional medical establishment, Dr. Brady was, in fact, finally cured of his own serious chronic pain by Dr. Sarno, who calls the mindbody diagnosis he pioneered; TMS, or Tension Myositis Syndrome.

Dr. Brady began applying Dr. Sarno's techniques successfully to his own pain patients, and expanded on them to bring in the spiritual dimension, in addition to mind and body, which is important for some patients.

Dr. Brady calls his diagnosis; AOS, or Autonomic Overload Syndrome, but it is actually the same thing as TMS, packaged with a more structured 6-week plan for curing chronic pain. And he acknowledges Dr. Sarno as "my mind-body mentor. I appreciate you and am always grateful to you for showing me another way in medicine."

The book is well-written, and is a welcome addition to the growing field of mindbody medicine. Anyone in chronic pain should certainly read this or one of Dr. Sarno's books before even considering surgery, which has a far less successful record of curing chronic pain.

Unfortunately, most medical school students are taught to look for physical causes for physical symptoms, and thus they tend to ignore the emotional or psychological causes that are at root of the current epidemic of chronic pain. Dr. Brady has made an important contribution to overcoming this epidemic.

Those who have suffered from non-specific chronic pain for any length of time may read the title of this book and instantly classify it as fiction. Nothing could be further from the truth. The volume is easy to read, free of scientific jargon describing radical diets, supplements or other programs that are costly and difficult to administer. Contained in this volume is a simple, inexpensive, non-invasive method to take control of one's personal pain, laid out in an easy to understand progression. If you are able to visualize and willing to take the time to be introspective; this could be the catalyst for major change in the quality of your life.

We all know when we walk in to our MD with pain, we will walk out with a pill. My husband went to a chiropractor who wanted $5K up front to help with his pain. Fortuanately we found this book for under $20 and now he won't need a pill from an MD or a year's worth of spinal adjustments!

Through his book Pain Free For Life, Dr. Brady takes the reader through his personal journey from incessant pain to his present state of mental, physical and spiritual wholeness. Dr. Brady outlines an easy to read step by step 6 week program to help the reader understand and overcome the destructive role of stress which manifests itself in the body as physical pain.

One thing is clear after reading this book: this doctor has made a discovery that will give readers a better quality, and no doubt, a longer life. Thank you Dr. Brady for giving my husband , 57, his life back through your enlightening program.

I've known Dr. Scott Brady for fifteen years and have seen him live out his values and grow stronger in spite of setbacks. His new book is a proven method of pain management with cutting edge techniques that put you in control of a better quality of life. If you or someone you love is facing chronic pain this new approach will give you decades of research full of creative ways to find relief for about the same cost as a copayment. Check it out and then let Scott know your thoughts since he is the kind of doctor who really cares about his patients getting results.

I checked this book out of the library and was a bit skeptical. I went straight to the program and skipped all the explanation. I decided to just sit there in the library 'talking' to my pain, and I know it sounds crazy, but it was as if someone unzipped an overtight jacket off my body! I immediately felt like this will work for me. I went home told my husband about it and just burst into tears, for joy I think. I voraciously read everything and decided I can do this. After all my 8 years of testing saying, no lupus, no RA, no, no , no! slightly herniated disc. possible whiplash at one time. blah, blah blah, and oh yes, you must have a stubborn case of fibromyalgia - and sorry, no cure. You'll always have to be careful. Now in 3 days, I can say this is going to work for me. The journaling isn't giving me any surprises but the emotion behind it has shocked me! I'm not there yet, just starting to 'unlayer the onion', but from a continual pain scale of 7 - 9 now to about 3 and I'm smiling and hopeful - that in itself is a miracle! I am ordering this book today because I already know, I won't want to turn it in at the end of my Library 3 weeks!! Try it, what will it hurt - and it could be what you need!

When I heard about Pain Free for Life I figured I would give his method a try. After all, what did I have to loose? After a few days I have been able to stop my migraines by telling myself to relax and address my repressed emotions. What a relief! After years of migraines I now have the power to stop them from coming on! I highly recommend this book for people with migraines who would like to see the light at the end of the tunnel!

I have had chronic back pain for 6 years. Medication was becoming very expensive. Since I have read this book I've thrown my medication away! Amazing!

Thank you Dr. Brady! I have found relief within a few weeks, for pain I have had my whole life!

While being simplistic and over the top at times, his message is a good one. I would recommend this book to most people. It has helped me manage a lot of my pain and I am only a few weeks into the program. The basic idea of journaling through emotions is so simple it is profound. I can't think of a single person who would not benefit from this method of inner reflection. I've only experienced growth and a developing self-awareness from this insightful approach to health. It makes sense- we can develop ulcers from worrying, migraines from stress- why not chronic pain from never dealing with our emotions?
The only concerns I have are in Brady's 'yelling' at the unconscious. I don't think that barreling over your interior life after ignoring it for so long is going to make for a long-term healthy balance between emotions and will. There are better ways to handling the blocks that one comes to in this program.

Pain Free for Life?? How could it be???? That's what I thought when I saw the title, in fact I bought the book and then doubted why I did it. Over a year went by while I finished an MBA, the entire time I promised myself that I would read a book "for no grade" when I finished. I read a couple that family and friends gave me and then came to "Pain Free for Life" and finished it in a few days.

The book has some of the author's personal information in the first sections that I almost skipped. But sticking to my promise I read it all and found that much of what he had gone through had happened to me too. Have you ever had a doctor that said, "Face it, you might just have to live with the pain for the rest of your life"? Well Dr. Brady did and I did too; so he had my attention. Then he mentioned how he had taken medications for pain that did nothing but mask the pain; I did that too!!

An then he said that he was free from the medications with NO PAIN! He had me hooked; I had to finish the book. I read through the conclusion, went back and journaled for two days and was free from pain. If you don't believe it can happen buy the book and give it a shot.

But truly do it, don't go into it waiting for the doctor to be wrong or to try and prove my review wrong; give yourself a chance. What do you have to lose, if the pain doesn't go away your in the same spot as you started.

It worked for me!!!