Product Description
This is the second edition of Rapid Recovery from Back and Neck Pain, originally published in 1999. This is a companion book to Dr. Sarno's Mind Over Back Pain, Healing Back Pain, and The Mind Body Prescription. It provides an easy and effective step-by-step plan based on techniques used by Olympic athletes.

Rapid Recovery from Back and Neck Pain Book is a unique and fascinating account of one man's search for a cure. You accompany the author as he searches, like a detective, for clues to solve the mystery of back and neck pain and share with him the joy of rapid recovery from months of pain and disability. You discover crucial research information as well as easy and effective strategies for rapid recovery. This book provides you the tools to design your own rapid recovery plan for a pain-free and active life.

Rapid Recovery from Back and Neck Pain features:
. The revolutionary scientific discovery for the cause of most back, neck, and hand pain
. Crucial medical research that you are not likely to learn from most doctors or chiropractors
. The noninvasive university treatment program with a phenomenal success rate
. Case studies of people who have recovered rapidly and avoided surgery, including those with herniated or buldging disc and carpal tunnel syndrome
. Special section for designing your own rapid recovery plan
. Fascinating information on related research from major universities

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 32 reviews)

Don't Waste Your Money

This book is a huge disappoinment. Amir goes to great length to let us know, in excruiating detail--- the dates, times, places, doctors, wife, co-workers, etc, and all the other details of his own pain, for half the book! His ideas of a "bad" sub-concious that is repressed and the cause of all our misery, and must be punished, is just plain wrong! And his suggestions to reward ourselves (even with ice cream, no less!)for a pain free period, is just silly and childish.

Amir bases his theory on the work of Dr. Sarno, as he was helped by him. But, he strayed far away. Amir should have just recommended Dr. Sarno's book for those suffering with pain. It would be a much better service to others who are also suffering. It was a waste of my money and time to read the book.
March 16, 2007

My final piece to the puzzle

I wrote this review about "Healing Back Pain" by John Sarno but feel Fred Amir deserves some praise also. However, I would recommend someone that is new to the TMS diagnosis to first read the above mentioned book, as Fred kind of expects you to know a little about the theory.
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The main reason I am writing this review is to hopefully persuade someone to read this book and get over their pain. The second reason is that I have been telling everyone I know about TMS and mind body medicine and have probably been driving them nuts! So, I figure by writing this review I can get it out of my system.

I am in my late twenties and had minor prostitus, I actually went to an authors website about healing prostitus and read a review of this book. Naturally, the people on the forums were skeptical but I am an open minded person so I gave it a whirl. To my surpise, after about a week my pain was gone!

However, the pain moved (you will understand why when you read the book)to my right shoulder and neck. I am talking about debilitating, throbing, spasms, shocks running through my shoulder. This did not go away after a week so I bought his other book Mindbody medicine. After a week my pain lessend about 70-80%, but still it was agony to try and sleep and hurt for much of the morning. This pain lasted a couple of months and I was getting anxious that it may never go away.

This is when I bought Dr. Fred Amir's book Healing back and Neck pain. I remember while I was reading this book I participated in a back yard football game and three plays into the game my hamstring popped! I was really at a low point when this happened however I stuck to reading Dr. Fred Amir's book and treated this pain as TMS. I would still run, even if it was only around the block, and I noticed the pain started to subside. One week later I was running full boar on the treadmill. TMS essentially manifest itself as a pulled hamstring and when I didn't buy into the physical injury it went away. Gosh, I will the Colts team of 2006-2007 would read this book!

I am now pain free, I can do anything I want and it feels great! There were times I wasn't sure if I would ever be 100% again and started to envy people that didn't seem to have any pain. I would think "Man, I would give anything to just be pain free again!" and looked forward to the day I could once again sleep in peace. Well, funny thing is that day is here and I almost never sit back and feel grateful that I am healed. I guess life has a funny way of keeping you focused on the next task. This is why I decided to write a review...to show a little gratitude to the author who is responsible for me living a pain free existence. Thanks Dr. Sarno and Fred Amir!

January 12, 2007

Rip off

This book promises much and delivers little. Hardly more than a very poor John Sarno rip off. It's unfortunate that Sarnos' name was used since it is the only legitimate thing in the book. If you like to hear someone moan and cry about how everything in their life was related to their sensitive repressed feelings then this book is for you. If you subscribe to the Farenheit 451 theory this book is also for you.(not to memoorize but to burn) Sorry!
January 11, 2007

Using this book took me from crippled to good as new

Around the time of my pregnancy in 1995 I developed pain throughout my body that eventually reached a point where almost all the activities in life I loved were no longer available, and trying to get well became an obsession.

The critical symptoms were a sawing pain across my upper leg and in my hip, repetitive strain injury (RSI) in my hands and arms which at its worse prevented me from dressing, toileting or eating without assistance, and back, neck, ankle and foot pain. There was a year when I couldn't drive myself at all. Eventually I ended up in a wheelchair, pushed around by my husband. This experience was extremely frightening and I was greatly challenged to deal with both the fear and the pain.

Throughout this period we spend huge money and energy getting the best medical help we could find. Numerous (often conflicting) suggestions were offered for why I was in this predicament, but nothing offered arrested my decline. My life became vastly restricted.

When I began reading Rapid Recovery from Back and Neck Pain, I could barely walk. I followed the strategies outlined in the book closely. I quickly regained both mobility, and muscle strength, and was once again able to play the piano, and resume trekking and climbing. Three years later I continue to immerse myself in these activities, and my body works great. As an added bonus my allergies to cats and pollen and the like, which I had had since early childhood, disappeared.

This approach challenges current medical thinking, and challenged my thinking. Once I committed to it I focused on the "what to do", rather than on the "will it work?". I found the book practical and easy to follow. The important thing is to give it a thorough try (rather than getting tied up with what doctors have told you in the past, or what our society currently believes about pain) and to follow the steps as designed till you realise it works and you can go it on your own.

It is a powerful approach, and produces results that are almost miraculous. It's been well worth the effort and lifechanging for me, and others I've met.
September 07, 2006

It worked for me!

I had an aching back for about five years, mostly in my lower back and sometines in my mid and upper back. I made the usual rounds between doctors, specialists, chiropractors, accupuncturists, and so on. The pain was always there, sometimes better sometimes worse. I used to wake up in pain and stiff most mornings.

One day I read an article about Dr. Sarno's work and decided to persue it further. I read his books and noticed some improvement in my pain and stiffness. But for whatever reason, I just could not get rid of the pain.

Then I read Amir's book. I just made so much more sense to read the effectiveness of Sarno's method witin the context of his recovery. Just reading his story gave me a lot of hope. I tried his recovery plan and was amazed how quickly it worked. I never thought eating ice cream could cure my back.

Now 9 weeks later, I am almost completely free of pain and very happy. I know the reviews for Sarno and Amir books are mixed, but it worked for me and I if you like ice cream, you should definitely try it.
November 07, 2005

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