Marcus Norman J. (ed.) End Back Pain Forever: A Groundbreaking Approach to Eliminate Your Suffering

Atria Books, 2012. — 406 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4391-6745-8If you or someone you love has been suffering with back pain, this book could change your life. Americans spend more and more each year treating neck and back pain — over $86 billion annually — but all too often, the treatments simply don’t help. Why keep taking medicine if it doesn’t work? And why resort to painful, unnecessary surgery or injections if there’s a better remedy? End Back Pain Forever is a revolutionary guide that shows you the many ways that back pain can be produced and the easy-to-follow steps you can take to eliminate it. Norman Marcus, one of the nation’s leading back pain specialists, estimates that more than 75 percent of back pain cases can be cured by treating the muscles rather than through surgery or drugs. Yet too many doctors don’t recognize this, leaving patients struggling for solutions.Doctor, My Back Is Killing Me!
You Are Not Alone: The Back Pain Epidemic
Understanding Pain
Back Pain and Anatomy
Pain from Damage in Your Spine
Muscles and Back Pain
Stress, Tension, and Pain
Overcoming Stress and Tension
Test Yourself with the Kraus-Weber Tests
The Twenty-one Kraus-Marcus Exercises for Low Back Pain
Upper Body Exercises for Upper Back, Shoulder, and Neck Pain, and Tension Headaches
Pregnancy and Back Pain
Back Home with the Baby
Back Pain and Aging
Dieting
Drugs, Vitamins, Supplements, and Snake Oil
Choosing and Working with Your Doctor
Dos and Don’ts of Daily Living: Sex, Food, Work, and Play
When Exercise Alone Is Not Enough: The New News About Trigger Points and Muscle Tendon Injections
Other Cases of Muscle Pain, from Head to Foot, with a Stop at the Groin
Not the End, the Beginning