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End Back Pain Forever: A Groundbreaking Approach to Eliminate Your Suffering
From a leading pain management expert, a revolutionary book about ending back pain—the #1 cause of debilitating pain in people under age forty—through treatment of muscles and tendons, rather than through medication or surgeries.
If you or someone you love has been suffering with back pain, this book could change your life.
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
• 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.
If you or someone you love has been suffering with back pain, this book could change your life.
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
• 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.
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305 pages, Paperback
First published June 5, 2012
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February 28, 2013
Here is my comment in my Spanish Blog:
http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2...
The most remarkable aspect of this book is the very simple idea that for a chronic problem it is necessary to apply a chronic remedy. That back pain is not going to go away by means of a one-time intervention. It has to be treated every day of the life. If a person suffers from pain; they must do this very simple exercises every single day of their lives; and their pain will be gone for good. But they must commit to this cure. It is a great book and I do believe everything it says. It is backed up but a ton of real-life experiences; and the only problem I see with it is for those people who like convenient things; who want everything and want it now. Well; the cure for back pain is not something that can be achieved with a drug or surgery-induced shortcut. It is a commitment. I truly thank the doctor that wrote this very helpful book.
http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2...
The most remarkable aspect of this book is the very simple idea that for a chronic problem it is necessary to apply a chronic remedy. That back pain is not going to go away by means of a one-time intervention. It has to be treated every day of the life. If a person suffers from pain; they must do this very simple exercises every single day of their lives; and their pain will be gone for good. But they must commit to this cure. It is a great book and I do believe everything it says. It is backed up but a ton of real-life experiences; and the only problem I see with it is for those people who like convenient things; who want everything and want it now. Well; the cure for back pain is not something that can be achieved with a drug or surgery-induced shortcut. It is a commitment. I truly thank the doctor that wrote this very helpful book.
February 7, 2023
My father gave me a copy of this book after hearing about my recent issues with back pain from sitting at my desk all day. (The new standing desk helped, but didn't alleviate it fully.) He'd also suffered from back pain, and swore that this book had helped him immensely. I'm only one week in (and therefore only on the first seven back exercises, not the full 21) and I have noticed a marked difference. The frog less release especially helps, I can practically feel my tense muscle pop and release.
As for the book in total, it is sanctimonious at times. I pretty much speed read through the second half because it got a bit repetitive. But for those who have lower back pain with no discernible cause, give the exercises a try.
As for the book in total, it is sanctimonious at times. I pretty much speed read through the second half because it got a bit repetitive. But for those who have lower back pain with no discernible cause, give the exercises a try.
January 5, 2021
The usual back advice that was not so common just 10 years ago. It is shocking that doctors did not recognize muscle tension or misuse as a treatable cause for pain. The tests and exercises are well explained.
April 15, 2015
I had hurt my upper back muscles somehow last summer. I went to physical therapy for 8 weeks, but it still wasn't right. I read this book from the library and it really helped. I started doing the exercises and have noticed a great difference. I have since been able to start back exercising more.
Dr. Marcus writes clearly for the novice. It isn't filled with a ton of medical jargon.
Dr. Marcus writes clearly for the novice. It isn't filled with a ton of medical jargon.
September 5, 2012
I got this book from the library for my friend who has (major) issues with her back. I figured it would be just the same old stuff she already knew. Not so. She liked it so much that she bought a copy for herself.
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