Dr. Schechter is a Board Certified Sports Medicine/Family Medicine Physician with a credential in Pain Medicine practicing in Southern California. Dr. Schechter has over twenty five years of experience with the TMS diagnosis, has treated over a thousand patients and published original research. While a medical student at NYU, he was a successful patient of Dr. John Sarno and Dr. Sarno's research assistant for a follow-up study. This site was initially developed in 1997 by David Schechter, MD and by 1999 he began to develop educational materials for his own patients. These educational materials have been purchased by thousands of individuals on this website and on Amazon.com. Our feedback is that many are helped by self-study of the workbook, CD's and DVD, even without seeing Dr. Schechter in the office.

These same materials were used as an essential part of the treatment program for his 2007 published study in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine.

You may wish to tour the site by reviewing the highlights above and then following the buttons below to the other pages. If you're interested in exercise and fitness issues , there's a section for you, as well. If you're looking for a TMS doctor outside of California, see Other Doctors Treating TMS .