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Summary
Summary
What is the most powerful backache treatment ever developed to help prevent recurring back pain and restore you to a healthy, pain-free life?
The answer is exercise.
Exercise has:
Helped more backache sufferers than drugs, surgery, or any other treatment--without dangerous side effects
Been widely prescribed by medical doctors and other health practitioners.
Been rated the best source of relief by backache sufferers themselves
Been uniformly supported by current medical research
Each exercise is explained in words and diagrams so that even a beginner can put together an individualized exercise program that works. Included are:
Exercises to relieve acute and chronic plain, plus preventative measures
Self evaluation checklists
Instructions for increasing activity levels
Tips on performing everyday activities without pain
Let Dava Sobel and Arthur C. Klein's Backache: What Exercises Work work wonders in ending your back pain. Only this book has the techniques you need.
Author Notes
Dava Sobel was born in the Bronx, New York on June 15, 1947. She received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1969. She is a former New York Times science reporter and has contributed articles to Audubon, Discover, Life, Harvard Magazine, and The New Yorker.
She has written several science related books including Letters to Father, The Planets, and A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time won the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love won the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science and technology and a 2000 Christopher Award. She has co-authored six books with astronomer Frank Drake including Is Anyone Out There? She also co-authored with William J. H. Andrewes The Illustrated Longitude.
Because her work provides awareness of science and technology to the general public, she has received the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board in 2001, the Bradford Washburn Award in 2001,the Klumpke-Roberts Award in 2008, and the Eduard Rhein Foundation in Germany in 2014.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Part 1 The Magic Bullet | |
| Chapter 1 Exercise by Prescription | p. 3 |
| Chapter 2 Alternatives to Exercise | p. 11 |
| Chapter 3 A Program for Permanent Improvement | p. 21 |
| Chapter 4 A Special Message for People with Chronically Disabling Back Pain | p. 29 |
| Part 2 The Motivation | |
| Chapter 5 How to Work Exercise into Your Life | p. 37 |
| Chapter 6 How to Assess Your Exercise Readiness and Assemble Your Tailor-Ma de Program | p. 43 |
| Chapter 7 How to Sustain Your Motivation to Exercise | p. 65 |
| Part 3 The Exercises | |
| Chapter 8 Exercises for Low-Back Pain | p. 73 |
| Chapter 9 Exercises for Upper-Back and Neck Pain | p. 111 |
| Chapter 10 Exercise for General Fitness | p. 135 |
| Chapter 11 Exercises for Specific Conditions | p. 143 |
| Part 4 Mind-Body Work | |
| Chapter 12 Yoga | p. 155 |
| Chapter 13 Meditation, Imagery, and More | p. 167 |
| Part 5 Lifestyle Changes | |
| Chapter 14 Positioning Yourself | p. 177 |
| Chapter 15 Accomplishing Tasks | p. 187 |
| Chapter 16 Enjoying Life | p. 195 |