Heal Your Aching Back

Offers you strategies for managing back pain, techniques for preventing back pain from occurring or recurring, and guidance on when you should consider more serious treatment, such as surgery. This book presents exercises to improve your back strength and health, alternative treatments, and pain medications.

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Take back your health, your fitness, and your life

This authoritative and comprehensive guide, written by a Harvard doctor who has struggled with back pain himself, will help you find the real cause of your problem--and the smartest way to treat it. This simple step-by-step program will show you how to:



Get the right diagnosis for your type of back pain Find the most effective treatment, including complementary therapiesControl pain through specific exercises, massage, and yogaAvoid surgery, prevent reinjury, and strengthen your back for life
Dr. Katz also gives you the most up-to-date information on chiropractic care, new pain medications, alternative physical therapies, and back surgery.