“Got Pain?”
These two words attracted much attention to the flyers on public walls in Williamsburg, Boro Park, Flatbush and Crown Heights. Flyers invited back-pain sufferers to the Razag Ballroom on Sunday, April 30th to learn about a revolutionary approach to the healing of excruciating back pain.
The title of the flyer read: “Understanding the Mind-Body Connection – How to make pain go away forever” – and included the healing of Spinal Stenosis, Herniated Disc, Tendonitis, Sciatica, and Fibromyalgia as well.
Organized by the Bnos Menachem girls school, the Razag hall was filled with many who were suffering from debilitating back pain and hoped to hear about the possibility of relief.
The healing method discussed that night, known as the “Mind-Body Connection,” was made legendary by the now famed 92-year-old Dr. John E. Sarno.
There were several people in the audience who had attended Sarno’s “Understanding Back Pain” classes and had been cured, organizers said.
Speaking about this healing technique was Dr. Ira Rashbaum, the former Clinical Professor at NYU Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation. Dr. Rashbaum spent 20 years working as Dr. Sarno’s protegee and appointed by Dr. Sarno to fill his shoes.
Now retired, Dr. Sarno served at NYU Langone for many years and is credited with healing over 10,000 patients by utilizing the mind-body prescription. He authored the best-selling book “Mind Over Back Pain” and several other books on this subject.
Rabbi Bension Sheinfeld, Rabbi at SAR Riverdale and a ski instructor, opened the event by telling the audience his miraculous story of his back pain and how it was cured by learning Dr. Sarno’s Mind-Body Connection.
VIDEO: Testimonials
In a film made for the Bnos Menachem event, several speakers spoke about their experience with Dr. Sarno’s Mind-Bond Connection:
“It all started out with back pain. At first I thought it was nothing, but then it kept on getting worse. I was worried how this would go away. By the time I finished the book, the back pain was gone.”
“The pain was so enormous that I wasn’t able to walk on my feet. The pain was traveling from my back to my thigh, to my knee, to my ankle, to my leg. I was unable to function.”
“Doctors prescribed pain killers, and you name it to dull the pain. Doctor said go for an MRI. I had slipped a disc in the back. They said, ‘Listen, your father had back pain … you’ll have backpain for the rest of the life.’ I should go for surgery. Thank G-d I read John Sarno’s book.”
“I was being bounced around from doctor to doctor. I’m not a believer in general, not into holistic healing, or deep hypothetical concepts. But then he taught me concepts from John Sarno’s book. It was a life changer.”
VIDEO: Full Lecture of Dr. Ira Rashbaum
Is there a way to email the lecturer With a question?
Thank you
Get Healing Back Pain – Page 84 (or 82?) explains the whole process of how to deal with it, in short.
It lists about 12 things to go through when you have pain – anywhere, not just back pain.
There are several available. And is the book enough to teach the methods?
Them mind-body connection is found in Torah, so it’s nice to see it being used in the world.
What Dr. Rashbaum explained, applies to Homeopathy and all other alternative therapies – that the medical world doesn’t usually appreciate hearing that these things actually heal.
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During the first Gulf war in the early 90’s I had the worst back pains. All the doctors said the only way was surgery.One
of my doctors found in a book that swimming could cure. I did that for 7 months and B”H it healed completely . By the way, swimming .cures many ailments.
…who really cares for the community!
I had such bad back pain that I couldn’t breathe without pain. Walking ,driving ,standing ,sitting, EVERYTHING caused pain. I went To all kinds if Drs. Had all kinds if tests. They told me to go for pain management . Prescribed all kinds of pain killers. When the tests showed nothing wrong…that was the worst. I felt so lost. I wanted them to find something ANYTHING and fix it, make the pain go away. I heard that Rabbi Gurary had a method that could help so I went to his house on a Friday and he explained Dr John Sarnos… Read more »