Exercise your way to health: Back Pain (eBook)

Back Pain: Exercise your way to health will show you how to manage your back pain by helping you to gain a better understanding of the causes and how this affects your body and health. Armed with this information you can make informed choices about how you live your life.There is no reason why back pain should stop you living a full and active life. Exercise your way to health will show you how to include a simple fitness programme into your life, whilst considering the specific challenges you face with acute and chronic back pain. You will start to see improvements within 6 weeks, when you can re-test your baseline fitness. This will be all the motivation you need to keep your new lifestyle on track to a happier and healthier you! There is no reason why low back pain should stop you living a full and active life. Exercise your way to health will show you how to include a simple fitness programme into your life, whilst considering the specific challenges you face with acute and chronic back pain. Paula Coates is a practising physiotherapist and author of Running Repairs. She writes for a number of fitness magazines and is a regular on the lecture circuit. Paula is also a keen runner and has completed five marathons. Endorsed by leading back pain organisation BackCare, and content approved by a medical doctor.Covers the specific needs of all sufferers of back pain, regardless of age, severity of condition or levels of fitness. By answering the MOT and Service History questionnaires you can assess your current level of health and a few simple tests will give you a base line of fitness.Simple and easy to follow exercise programmes give you a step by step guide to starting and returning to exercise.Specific exercises show you how to improve your mobility, core stability, balance and strength - each exercise has been developed to help with the specific problems faced by those with back pain.

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Back Pain: Exercise your way to health will show you how to manage your back pain by helping you to gain a better understanding of the causes and how this affects your body and health. Armed with this information you can make informed choices about how you live your life.There is no reason why back pain should stop you living a full and active life. Exercise your way to health will show you how to include a simple fitness programme into your life, whilst considering the specific challenges you face with acute and chronic back pain. You will start to see improvements within 6 weeks, when you can re-test your baseline fitness. This will be all the motivation you need to keep your new lifestyle on track to a happier and healthier you!