Treat Your Own Back
by Robin A. McKenzie
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Book Reviews of Treat Your Own Back
Book Review: Great book as was "Treat your own Neck"
Summary: 5 Stars
After being out a week from work due to lower back pain, a friend let me borrow this one and the other one: Treat Your Own Neck 4th Ed. They were both very helpful as was gettting in a pool & stretching. By combining the exercises Robin recommends with pool stretching, the pain was relieved within a few weeks.
I have also been using Targus AWE26US Ergonomic M-stand for Notebook Computers at work with my notebook which has eliminated most all of my upper neck pain. Also, walking for 20-30 minutes each day at lunch and getting a better chair really helps lower back pain. Steelcase's Leap chair has been the best one I've used so far. The other thing you hear a lot is not to sit more than 20 minutes without getting up for at least a minute or two. I use this program, "Take A Break", which blinks on my laptop to remind me to do that. It's free from www.download.com.
Hope all this helps. I know your pain.
Book Review: Don't wait
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had severe back pain my entire life. I've had several MRIs CAT scans, I have several herniated discs in my lumbar region. I was given the book a few years ago as a gift but I never really followed the exercises like the book explained and stopped all together about 2 years ago. That was probably the dumbest thing I've ever done. For the last 2 years I've been in horrible pain, doing physical therapy, getting cortisone, taking advil almost daily or hydrocodone and muscle relaxers when my back went out completely. Well I just found the book again a few days ago and resolved to follow it to the letter. Within 2 days I went from a 6-8 level of daily pain to 0-1. I'm so disappointed I didn't stick with this years ago. I'm about a week into the stretches and posture techniques and it's totally changed my life. I hope this helps someone who is looking for back relief. Considering I've spent thousands of dollars of treatments, work missed and dealt with constant pain for over 20 years, I think no matter what it's worth trying for the $8-9. Good luck with your back pain, I hope it helps you to!Book Review: I'll be back...
Summary: 5 Stars
TERRIFIC BOOK! I can't praise this book enough. I ruptured a disc in my lower back in Dec., 2006. I spent 9 months as a semi-cripple. I went thru a series of 3 cortisone injections into my spine. They helped, but not completely. You are only allowed to have 3 shots in a 1 year period, and mine started wearing off after 5 months. I was looking at back surgery, which was very, very scary. I was so depressed about it.
I found this book thru one of Amazon's wonderful links: I was actually looking for a back brace. I took advantage of their "Customers who bought this item also bought..." feature, and bought the 2 together. Well, I ended up never having to use the back brace! I swear, after 1 week of doing the exercises in this book, I was feeling so much better! Best $10 I ever spent.
Whenever my back starts acting up, I immediately go back to this book and start the exercises. The pain usually goes away in 2-3 days, sometimes sooner. I have only praise for this book. Thank you, thank you THANK YOU, Mr. McKenzie, for writing this!
Book Review: not for mid-back pain
Summary: 1 Stars
I was given this book as well as the Treat Your Own Neck book by my "back" doctor when I went in for mid-back pain. Women will understand when I call this the back bra area. Treat Your Own Back focuses solely on lower back pain. There is a lot of encouragement to maintain good posture but I already have good posture so this information was not helpful to me. The exercises are some that I do in yoga class but the directions were minimal. Some of the pictures show positions that may cause or worsen spinal injury. I pointed out to my doctor that there was no instruction to lengthen the spine before rounding forward ( as this can cause compression of the spine and bulging of discs ). His reply was that this is a short book and there was not enough space to be inclusive. I would prefer a BEGINNING yoga class ( with a teacher not a dvd ) where the instruction is through and includes modifications for newbies and those of us with restricted movement. For those of you with lower back pain this book may be just what you're looking for, but for me, it was a waste of time.Book Review: Treat Your Own Back: Everyone should own a copy.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the 4th copy of this book I have purchased or had given to me. I keep lending out copies to people who have back problems. Using the advice in this book I was able to overcome low back pain so well that I became overconfident in lifting heavy things (rock benches for the garden, heavy boxes, furniture) and ended up with a bilateral hernia at the age of 69. Having had that repaired I am back again to picking up whatever I want. The advice includes how you can tell whether your particular type of back pain is amenable to the given treatment, exercises to use at various stages in the recovery, and getting your other joints back into shape once the back pain has been conquered. On the three occasions in the last 25 years when I have been careless and sat with the wrong posture for an extended period (1-2 hours) and had a pain recurrence, I have been able to go back to the book and recover from it again. In my opinion, many back surgeries could be avoided entirely by following its advice.