Tension Myositis Syndrome - Notable Patients

Notable Patients

Notable patients who have been treated for TMS include the following:

  • Radio personality Howard Stern credited TMS treatment with the relief of his "excruciating back and shoulder pain", as well as his obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel was treated by Sarno for his chronic debilitating back pain. In a 20/20 segment on his former doctor, Stossel stated his opinion that the TMS treatment "cured" his back pain, although he admitted that he continues to have relapses of pain.
  • Television writer and producer Janette Barber said that for three years, she had been increasingly unable to walk, and eventually began to use a wheelchair, due to severe ankle pain originally diagnosed as tendinitis. She was later diagnosed and treated for TMS. According to Barber, she was "pain-free one week after lecture" and able to walk and run within a few months, notwithstanding her "occasional" relapses of pain.
  • The late actress Anne Bancroft said that she saw several doctors for back pain, but only Sarno's TMS treatment helped her.

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