Hello, my name isAudrey Berdeski ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Occupation:Chiropractor and Licensed Professional Counselor
Location:Sterling Heights, Michigan
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The best word to describe me is: curious
Interests in no particular order: Exercise, nutrition, reading, researching, self-improvement, music, shopping the clearance racks at expensive stores, humor, classic cars (my 1965 Mustang), psychic determinism, calligraphy, knitting.
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Favorite TV shows: In Treatment, Mad Men
What else you should know about me: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MY TMS STORY...I was in my master's program for counseling and heard of Dr. Sarno's books about TMS. I was dismayed that someone would think that my Chiropractic patients had psychosomatic pain, so I investigated. I ended up writing a scholarly paper on his work for my Mental Health Specialization, and giving a short lecture about the TMS theory. As a Chiropractor who was trained to understand spinal biomechanics and neuroanatomy, this research left me feeling as if I were shooting myself in the foot. I couldn't find anything to disagree with in Dr. Sarno's work, and began to notice my patients were experiencing exacerbations when they were under emotional stress.
As I learned more psychodynamic technique, and understood how the unconscious mind controls everything we do, I decided to incorporate this work into my practice, to be able to help those who can accept the diagnosis and are willing to become pain free. Because I have some strong relationships with patients I have been seeing for years, many of them are now reading Dr. Sarno's book and preparing for the workshops I'm going to be doing soon. The counseling degree helped me combine the psychological component to the physical pain, and this work feels like a natural fit for both of my careers.
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Audry, Love your story. I have a friend who is a Chiropractor and he feels he is more "counselor" to his patients than "Chiropractor". We have had many chats about emotional well being and it's affects on the body.
I have another friend who is a Chiropracter who I am going to this site, to read your profile. I would like him to come to the conclusions you have.
Matthew
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You know the expression "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"? Well, I was part of that when I first became a Chiropractor, and though Chiropractic can be a good placebo, if TMS is the underlying cause of all of the pains the patient experiences, it is a shame to try to keep fixing all of the pains with one tool.
I too have felt like a Counselor, while only being a Chiropractor, and on my entrance interview to my Master's degree in Counseling, I expressed the wish to understand and be able to offer therapeutic help to people who also had Psychological pain. Little did I know at that time that I would be participating in such a great endeavor as this.
Thanks for your comment, and I hope to be able to communicate with your Chiropractor, if he would be open to it.
Audrey
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What do you think of Dr. Sarno's recommendation to eliminate all forms of spinal manipulation. Have we not bought into the TMS concept and will never overcome TMS if we continue pain medications, heat, ice, core excercise and Chiropractic. My Chiropractor firmly believes in a Psychological basis for 90% of the people he adjusts.
What is your thinking on this? We joined about the same time.
Doug
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Chiropractic spinal adjustments were never meant to be for the alleviation of any pain symptoms. The goal of any Chiropractor is to remove interference to the nervous system that results when there is a small dislocation (subluxation) of a vertebra. If a person's pain goes away as a result of that, great, but pain relief is not the primary objective. Allowing the brain to communicate fully with all of the organs of the body, and keeping the systems aware of what each is doing, much as the conductor of an orchestra leads the players to keep them in harmony with one another, is the philosophical basis of Chiropractic. If a patient is educated at the outset that this is the care he/she is about to receive, and agrees to it, then pain relief becomes secondary.
The brain sends down an extension of its delicate nerve tissue through the spinal cord, and is housed by 26 movable segments called vertebrae. If even one of these vertebrae are misaligned, even when it is not felt symptomatically, research by retired University of Colorado scientist Chung‑Ha Suh, Ph.D. has shown the nerve impulse at that level can be reduced by as much as sixty percent. Whatever is at the end of that nerve (an organ, tissue or cell) then has a bit of its power reduced, creating dis-ease (not disease as known by the medical community) within the body. Chiropractic was not originally meant to be used for back pain, but over the years has become equated with back and neck pain. I was very disillusioned after going to Chiropractic college, and getting into the real world where people mistook me for a back pain relief specialist. Now, with the work of Dr. Sarno I do see that there is hope for many of the ailments that people have, and feel more aptly prepared to help.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
DrAudrey
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Hi, many chiropractors have an interest in TMS, but have had a hard time integrating it into their practices because they are taught to adjust, not counsel.
Good luck
David Schechter, md www.mindbodymedicine.com
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Yes, it's sort of a convoluted story. I became a chiropractor, then wanted a retirement career, so I got a degree in counseling, and now I'm going to be combining the two by educating my patients about this work so they can finally be rid of their pain .
I'd like to take my show on the road so to speak, and let Chiropractors get CEU's at conferences by hearing me speak about TMS. I have so much to do!!
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