My Neck Hurts!: Nonsurgical Treatments for Neck and Upper Back Pain (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

My Neck Hurts!: Nonsurgical Treatments for Neck and Upper Back Pain (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) Rating: List Price: $19.95 Sale Price: $11.33 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Eligible For Free Shipping My Neck Hurts!: Nonsurgical Treatments for Neck and Upper Back Pain (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) – Product Description

If you have neck pain and you are like most people, you want to know how to relieve the pain without having surgery. Dr. Martin Taylor’s comprehensive, user-friendly guide to treating neck pain will help you become a partner with your health care team in charting an effective nonsurgical plan for treatment.With two out of every three adults experiencing severe neck pain at least once in their lives, and one in ten enduring chronic neck pain, medical science has developed an array of treatment options. Which of the many options is right for you? Dr. Taylor identifies the various causes of pain and details the range of medical treatments and physical and alternative therapies available. He explains the least invasive treatments as well as more invasive and less common interventions. My Neck Hurts! includes information on the following topics, illustrated with photographs and drawings:• physical therapy, from exercises and aquatherapy to ultrasound and traction • electrical stimulation methods such as transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and percutaneous neuromodulation therapy (PNT) • manual therapies: massage, osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), and chiropractic treatment• medications, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), muscle relaxants, and topical medications • botulinum toxin therapy, occipital nerve blocks, and other forms of injection therapy• alternative and complementary therapies such as acupuncture, biofeedback, yoga, and PilatesThis truly readable resource includes patient stories, diagrams, and color illustrations as well as tips on how to effectively communicate with your physician, and an appendix of Web sites and other resources.

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Treat Your Back Without Surgery: The Best Nonsurgical Alternatives for Eliminating Back and Neck Pain, Fully Updated Second Edition

Treat Your Back Without Surgery: The Best Nonsurgical Alternatives for Eliminating Back and Neck Pain, Fully Updated Second Edition Rating: List Price: $17.95 Sale Price: $11.26 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Eligible For Free Shipping Treat Your Back Without Surgery: The Best Nonsurgical Alternatives for Eliminating Back and Neck Pain, Fully Updated Second Edition – Product Description

Treat Your Back Without Surgery is based on the acclaimed Texas Back Institute’s successful nonsurgical treatments for back injuries. Providing proven exercises and natural healing techniques, this book helps readers diagnose back problems and relieve pain noninvasively. Also included are black-and-white photos, illustrations, back surgery benefits and risks, and an updated resource section.

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Overcome Neck and Back Pain

Overcome Neck and Back Pain Rating: List Price: $21.95 Sale Price: $10.54 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Eligible For Free Shipping Overcome Neck and Back Pain – Product Description

If you suffer from back pain, as 85 percent of Americans do, you may think there is no way to bring about a complete end to your pain. Books, videos, and even doctors offer ways to manage the pain, but not to stop it. Finally there is a solution. Overcome Neck & Back Pain, the international bestseller, provides a means to end your back pain permanently through an easy-to-follow four-part program of structural analysis and correction, stretching, strengthening, and relaxing. Kit Laughlin spent years suffering from back pain, and, in search of relief, even traveled to Japan, where he found the solution. Using the principles of hatha yoga, he developed a combination of Eastern and Western medicine that provides a way to stop back pain and even protect oneself from future injury. Through clear, instructive photos and easy-to-follow instructions Overcome Neck & Back Pain shows the beginner how to use stretching, strengthening, and relaxation to end the pain. Overcome Neck & Back Pain also provides instruction in more advanced techniques, with an explanation of the principles behind the movements. The comprehensive text offers solutions for athletes and nonathletes, old and young alike. If you’ve given up hope of curing your back pain, Overcome Neck & Back Pain provides the sensible solution you need.

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The Multifidus Back Pain Solution: Simple Exercises That Target the Muscles That Count

The Multifidus Back Pain Solution: Simple Exercises That Target the Muscles That Count Rating: List Price: $16.95 Sale Price: $9.29 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Eligible For Free Shipping The Multifidus Back Pain Solution: Simple Exercises That Target the Muscles That Count – Product Description

New research suggests that most back pain is caused by underdeveloped multifidus muscles, those that connect the spinal vertebrae and are crucial in bending the back. This book presents exercises to strengthen the multifidus group. Simple explanations and black-and-white drawings throughout show readers how to work with these muscles. Also by this author:  Treat Your Own Knee Arthritis, Treat Your Own Spinal Stenosis, and Treat Your Own Tennis Elbow

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The Back Pain Revolution

The Back Pain Revolution, 2e Rating: List Price: $128.00 Sale Price: $99.23 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Eligible For Free Shipping The Back Pain Revolution, 2e – Product Description

Accessible to all health care professionals, this text provides a guide to understanding and managing back pain and is one of the premier examples of a biopsychosocial approach to medicine. The content challenges unsubstantiated beliefs regarding the best way to treat and manage back pain and presents an interdisciplinary debate on the subject. In a society where patients are demanding more effective approaches to their problems, this resource offers a radical rethink, a necessary step to achieving a more effective method of treatment. The unorthodox spirit of this material places this book at the center of the revolution taking place in the back pain area.Gordon Waddell is the world authority on the topic of the back pain revolution.The content addresses huge problems of concern to many disciplines and governments.The unbiased, open-minded view looks at the issues and the evidence and invites the readers to consider, debate, and agree on the best course of action.Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the problem offers both interventionist and conservative approaches to treatment, psychosocial issues, economic factors, patient education, and prevention.A new chapter on Occupational Health Guidelines keeps the reader up-to-date.New information allows the book to expand on the insights of the previous edition, which was considered a classic text.More social and work-related research and material provides information on these important issues.Updated guidelines and references make this resource one of the best for current practice.The new illustrations, graphs, tables, and education handouts present Waddell’s theory in a fresh, new way that aids in the reader’s understanding.

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