I had on and off sever back pain since I started heavy lifting working at 18 years old. My last back attack was after the 2008 financial collapse. It was putting my socks on and suddenly back pain that was so bad, it took my breath away, and I fell crossways across the bed. I could not even move for three hours to rotate to watch tv, and the pain lasted over a week.
Then I went to visit my friend Bello at his car lot, and I told him what happened. He also had problems. He told me he was watching late night tv and they had a Dr. Sarno on, he was saying it’s involved with our emotions. Things on our minds. During the show a phone call came in by Howard Stern, who said, this guy is right. Bello got the book, Mind Over Back Pain, and read it.
Then my wife got be the book, (small and quick to read) and after I read it I was convinced there was nothing structurally or materially wrong with my back. I was carrying heavy stuff in front of me etc no more back pain, gone.
Then in 2015 from 2008, 7 years my wife got cancer, and we were rushing to a Dr appointment, and I lifted something heavy before we left, and BINGO a back attack. I said to myself, this is bullshit, I walked around in the living room went out to the car in pain, and drove, and the pain went away before we got there.
The Dr was saying people get chiropractors, or various other treatments including surgery, and the pain goes away, from placebo but always comes back because they did not do the right thing.