Save Yourself from Low Back Pain!

by Paul Ingraham

Welcome to one of the Internet’s saner sources of information about chronic low back pain. This is a book-length tutorial, a guide to a controversial subject for both patients and professionals. It is not a sales pitch for a miracle cure system. It’s heavily referenced, but the tone is often light, like a footnote about being “shot by the witch.” I will offer some surprising ideas — underestimated factors in low back pain — but I won’t claim that all back pain comes from a single cause or cure. It’s just a thorough tour of the topic, the myths and misconceptions, and the best (and worst) low back pain treatment ideas available.

Since I first started treating low back pain in 2000, there’s been an explosion of free online information about it — countless poor quality articles. Back in the day, we actually had to go to a doctor or buy a book to get shoddy back pain information — now it’s just a Google search away. But it’s worse than that: even professional back pain guidelines are often misleading. For instance, despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, it’s extremely common to incorrectly portray back pain as a “mechanical” problem, as if the spine is a fragile structure which breaks down and causes pain. This is based on decades old misconceptions about how backs work, and how pain works, which the medical world is only gradually learning to leave behind.

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Reviews

[Sergio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bit repetitive, but certainly exhaustive