Back Sense: A Revolutionary Approach to Halting the Cycle of Chronic Back Pain

By Ian Fleming and Ian Fleming; illustrations by John Burningham

Book Overview

On occasion nearly everyone experiences short-term back pain from sore or strained muscles. But for many who come to treat their back gingerly because they fear further "injury," a cycle of worry and inactivity results; this aggravates existing muscle tightness and leads them to think of themselves as having a "bad back." Even worse is the understandable but usually counterproductive assumption that back pain is caused by "abnormalities"-bulging disks, a damaged spine, and so on. However, these abnormalities are frequently found in those who have absolutely no pain whatsoever. In reality, most backs are strong and resilient, built to support our bodies for a lifetime; truly "bad backs" are rare. Drawing on their work with patients and studies from major scientific journals and corporations, the authors of Back Sense- all three are former chronic back pain sufferers themselves-developed a revolutionary self-treatment approach targeting the true causes of chronic back pain. It is based on conclusive evidence proving that stress and inactivity are usually the prime offenders, and it allows patients to avoid the restrictions and expense of most other treatments. After showing readers how to rule out the possibility that a rare medical condition is the source of their problem, Back Sense clearly and convincingly explains the actual factors behind chronic back pain and systematically leads readers toward recapturing a life free of back pain. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375832831
• ISBN13: 9780375832833
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher

Customer Reviews

Physical Therapist highly recommends this book

I know as hard as it is to believe most back and neck pain is the result of simple muscle tension caused by stress. The authors of "Back Sense" do a great job of explaining this fact and back up their claims with research and logic. If you think your pain is too severe or long lasting to be caused by stress think again. This condition can be ungodly painful. Also if you have been told you have some physical abnormality...

This book gave me "my life" back again!

After a fall, I suffered from chronic leg pain for a period of 20 months before finding this book. For 20 months I spent countless hours seeing doctors, physical therapists, chiropractors, message therapists, and other health practitioners, including acupuncture. I was desperate to get well. I had made progress, but I still felt it very difficult to walk or move normally--I was still in essence "crippled," and I feared...

This book makes Sense of the pain. Try it!

I have had mild to moderate, with occasional severe, back pain for many years. Generally, the pain started when I was in graduate school. I thought that the long hours of sitting in class, reading and studying was damaging my "weak" back.After reading this book, I started to realize how much stress was a major factor in my back pain. Just before I read the book I was visiting my chiropractor every week and getting a massage...

I urge you to read this book

I was a skeptic. After many years of spending thousands of dollars and countless hours with medical doctors and chiropractors, I could not believe that changing the way I thought about my pain could help me conquer the crippling spasms that had wracked my life for nearly 20 years. I had tried special exercises, surgical consults, CAT scans, and powerful medications- nothing could take away those episodes that left me in agony,...

I found answers in this book

When it seemed that nobody had any answers for me, I found them in this book. For close to a year I had been experiencing debilitating back and hip pain. I am a very active person, and in addition to suffering from the constant pain, I was beginning to become severely depressed as the level of my physical activity decreased. The book was able to provide answers to my questions as to what was happening to me, and also provide...