Medical meetings, medical center

A young colleague, Dr. Michael Sinel, at present assistant director of Outpatient Physical Medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, has made the diagnosis and treated about fifty patients. His work is noteworthy because included in his patient population are some who were not necessarily receptive to the idea of a tension induced disorder, making his job much more difficult. Nevertheless, following the basic concepts enunciated in this article, his preliminanry data indicate that 75 percent of the group have had good to excellent pain resolution and better than 90 percent have experienced significant functional improvement.

I have invited my colleagues at medical meetings to observe the program and would welcome a survey conducted by an outside organization. Statistics as impressive as mine are bound to evokeHealing Back Pain skepticism in the medical community.

There is reason to believe the statistics will remain favorable, since I now interview patients prior to consultation in order to discourage those from coming who would not be receptive to the diagnosis. The reality is that only a small proportion of the back pain population would be open to the diagnosis and it is a waste of time and effort to try to treat someone who could not accept the TMS diagnosis.