Americans spend more and more each year treating neck and back pain—over $86 billion annually—but all too often, the treatments simply don’t help. Why keep taking medicine if it doesn’t work? And why resort to painful, unnecessary surgery or injections if there’s a better remedy? End Back Pain Forever is a revolutionary guide that shows you the many ways that back pain can be produced and the easy-to-follow steps you can take to eliminate it.
Norman Marcus, one of the nation’s leading back pain specialists, estimates that more than 75 percent of back pain cases can be cured by treating the muscles rather than through surgery or drugs. Yet too many doctors don’t recognize this, leaving patients struggling for solutions. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Marcus will show you:
• Why the current standard for diagnosing and treating back pain is flawed.
• Why high-tech imaging tests are not useful in diagnosing most back pain.
• Techniques that can protect you from injury.
• Twenty-one simple exercises that can end your back pain forever.
• How aging and pregnancy affect your back.
• And much more.
Author(s): Norman J. Marcus
Edition: 2012
Publisher: Atria Books
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 288
City: New York
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 "Doctor, My Back Is Killing Me!" 1
Chapter 2 You Are Not Alone: The Back Pain Epidemic 9
Chapter 3 Understanding Pain 19
Chapter 4 Back Pain and Anatomy 29
Chapter 5 Pain from Damage in Your Spine 43
Chapter 6 Muscles and Back Pain 53
Chapter 7 Stress, Tension, and Pain 65
Chapter 8 Overcoming Stress and Tension 73
Chapter 9 Test Yourself with the Kraus-Weber Tests 81
Chapter 10 The Twenty-one Kraus-Marcus Exercises for Low Back Pain 93
Chapter 11 Upper Body Exercises for Upper Back, Shoulder, and Neck Pain, and Tension Headaches 133
Chapter 12 Pregnancy and Back Pain 155
Chapter 13 Back Home with the Baby 163
Chapter 14 Back Pain and Aging 173
Chapter 15 Dieting 185
Chapter 16 Drugs, Vitamins, Supplements, and Snake Oil 191
Chapter 17 Choosing and Working with Your Doctor 201
Chapter 18 Dos and Don'ts of Daily Living: Sex, Food, Work, and Play 211
Chapter 19 When Exercise Alone Is Not Enough: The New News About Trigger Points and Muscle Tendon Injections 225
Chapter 20 Other Cases of Muscle Pain, from Head to Foot, with a Stop at the Groin 239
Chapter 21 Not the End, the Beginning 251
Acknowledgments 257
Appendix: Resources, Recommended Readings 259
Bibliography 264
Index 269
