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Back Pain Understood: A Cutting-edge Approach to Healing Your Back

Brian Hainline

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

In our quick-fix society, we often search for easy medical fixes. We make a diagnosis, put it in a box, and provide a medication, manipulation or surgical intervention to treat the diagnosis. Sixty million Americans who suffer with chronic pain tell us that this approach does not work.

Back pain is a major manifestation of chronic suffering, and effective treatment is based on understanding both the body and the mind. The science of medicine explores the mind-body interface. The art of medicine transforms this exploration into practical solutions.

Back Pain Understood provides an easy-to-follow format that provides practical solutions for the healthcare practitioner and patient.

Explore for yourself what Back Pain Understood can offer you:

* An understanding of chronic pain

* An understanding of the anatomy and function of the back

* An understanding of the mind-body connection

* An understanding of the many types of back pain presentations

* An understanding of multi-disciplinary treatment options

* Wonderful illustrations and photographs that complement the text

* Numerous real-life patient healing stories

Callanetics for Your Back

Callan Pinckney

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

This program works like nothing else I've ever tried! 5 out of 5 stars.
28 of 28 people found this review helpful.

This book should not be out of print! I have been a low-back-pain sufferer most of my adult life and have tried everything from weightlifting to yoga with little or no positive result (in some cases, very negative results). But this book, with its common-sense approach to both back therapy and overall exercise (making it clear that, yes, back problems are no barrier to staying in shape) got me from 80% of the time in back pain to 95% of the time pain-free, strong, and able to hike, bike, and do all the other things that would in the past have gotten me into painful trouble. Also, but just incidentally, it toned and slimmed my entire body, a selling point for Callanetics for women, but believe me, this man doesn't mind losing his "love handles" on the way to a better back, either! Callan Pinckney is some kind of miracle worker, maybe because she used herself and her own back as the laboratory for the program she created. Simply amazing!

Editorial Review:

From the innovative exercise specialist who brought the world Callanetics comes a series of no-impact, deep muscle exercises for readers with back problems. Includes tips on posture, movement, good sleeping positions, and more! Everything the back-pain sufferer needs to know to improve and strengthen now!

The The Lumbar Spine: Official Publication of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine

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The official publication of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine, this volume is the most authoritative and up-to-date reference on the lumbar spine. This edition provides more balance between basic science and clinical material and has been completely reorganized for easy reference. New chapters cover gene therapy, outcomes assessment, and alternatives to traditional nonoperative treatment. The editors have also added chapters on preparation for surgery, surgical approaches, spinal instrumentation, and bone grafts. Chapters on specific disorders have a consistent structure—definition, natural history, physical examination, imaging, nonoperative treatment, operative treatment, postoperative management, results of surgery, and complications.

Living Well with Back Pain: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You...That You Need to Know (Living Well)

Robert B. Winter, Marilyn L. Bach

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Great reference book 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

The first two chapters in the book make it worth the cost and the information in any Appendix makes it priceless. A word of caution, this book doesn't cover neck pain, but concentrates on the rest of the spine. I learned so much from keeping my back healthy to how to choose a physician if needed to finding legitimate web sites on the internet. This book is sure to help anyone who either has back or leg pain (often caused by back issues), anyone who loves someone with sort of pain, and those who wish to keep from having such pain. I can't recommend it enough.

Editorial Review:

If you're one of the millions of Americans suffering from back pain, Robert B. Winter, MD, and Marilyn L. Bach, PhD, have the answers and knowledge you need to effectively manage your condition. In Living Well with Back Pain, Winter and Bach draw on an extensive network of experts to bring you the latest information on:

• Diagnosing—and even eliminating—the problem
• Exercise programs and over-the-counter drug treatments
• Choosing the right medical practitioner
• When surgery and other invasive procedures are not needed

The authors are affiliated with an internationally renowned back treatment center, the Twin Cities Spine Center, which has treated tens of thousands of back pain sufferers. Their expertise and up-to-the-minute knowledge make this the most comprehensive, current, and accessible back pain book available.

The Biomechanics of Back Pain

Michael A. Adams, Nikolai Bogduk, Kim Burton, Patricia Dolan

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Magnificent resource. 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Michael Adams has taken a complex medical issue and made it understandable for people with limited medical training. His use of diagrams and graphics is flawless. What was once a mystery is now explained visually in a manner that makes sense.

Editorial Review:

Back pain is a common condition that affects a large percentage of the population, creating a significant impact on individual health and employment, as well as on the workload of manual therapy practitioners and orthopedic surgeons. This practical text, written by four key researchers in the field, offers an effective approach to the management and treatment of back pain based on applications of biomechanics. By linking the clinical anatomy of the spine to biomechanics principles, it provides a bridge between anatomy and practical applications. This highly illustrated, up-to-date book is essential reading for anyone involved in the care and treatment of patients with back pain, as well as for those studying its causes and methods of prevention

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM) Back Pain: The 6-Step Program for Lasting Relief (What Your Doctor May Not Tell)

Debra K. Weiner, Deborah Mitchell

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Millions of Americans suffer from chronic back pain, but what most don't realize is that their ailment is often caused by a combination of factors. According to Dr. Debra K. Weiner, identifying the disorders that contribute to chronic back pain is a critical part of the treatment process. To achieve lasting relief, a multifaceted, multidisciplinary approach is needed--no single pill or therapeutic procedure will solve the problem. In this authoritative guide, Dr. Weiner has distilled 20 years of research and clinical practice into an integrative six-step program. Readers will learn: how to identify the causes of their back pain and determine which treatments are most useful; how to distinguish their problem from potential misdiagnosis; traditional and alternative physical therapies and exercises; proven mind/body approaches; a guide to common medications and injections; pros and cons of different surgeries and invasive procedures; and much more.

Back Stability

Christopher M. Norris

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Execellent book, written mostly for a health practitioner 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This is a great book by a really good author. He is very grounded in science and there are a lot of different exercises. I am someone who is working to overcome back pain and about 50% of this book is too technical for me. Like some other authors talk about, one of the key points in the book is the some back pain is caused by poor posture and alignment of the pelvis. This is central to Pilates as well. I have found this to be true, but correcting it is the tricky part.

Editorial Review:

Introducing the concept of back stability, this text reviews the biomechanics of the lumbar spine and stabilization mechanisms. It shows how to establish the foundational positions and movements for the stabilization programmes; the consequences of muscle imbalance and how to address that problem; how to build abdominal muscle strength; and how to diagnose and correct bad posture. It goes on to show how to build back fitness with weight training equipment, and provides many dynamic control exercises for going on to advanced rehabilitation and stability. The parts are pulled together in a back stability programme for each client, and the text goes on to show how to avoid back injury at home and at work.