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Summary
Summary
The essential guide to maintaining a healthy back.
Back pain is the second most common health complaint. The Good Back Book is the essential handbook on clinically proven therapies for preventing back problems, improving everyday posture and embracing a healthier lifestyle.
The book is a balanced approach to back health that accounts for stress, gravity, workplace conditions, age, and weight. With jargon-free text and clear illustrations, the book provides an understanding of spinal anatomy. Spinal and muscular stability and flexibility are critically important for relieving and avoiding back problems. Featured here are equipment-free exercises for improving back stability and flexibility.
Common posture faults are described and illustrated along with specific exercises for correcting them. The book offers advice for achieving good posture in a wide variety of situations: working at a desk, cooking in the kitchen, standing in a bus, ironing and sweeping, lifting, walking, and carrying a backpack to school.
Alternate remedies and therapies are explored -- including what results are reasonable to expect.
The Good Back Book discusses:
Physiotherapy Osteopathy Chiropractic Yoga Pilates Massage therapies and deep tissue manipulationIn a detailed Q and A section, the author answers commonly-asked questions. The Good Back Book is a practical guide of proven techniques anyone can use to relieve and avoid back pain.
Author Notes
Renita Fehrsen-Du Toit is a practicing physiotherapist and holds an honors degree in Advanced Physiotherapy/Orthopedic Manipulative Therapy.
Table of Contents
Introduction | p. 8 |
Back Pain: An overview of the second most common health complaint | p. 10 |
Anatomy of the Spine: Understanding the structures in your back | p. 20 |
Spinal Mobility and Stability: Exercises to improve the two most important functions of the spine | p. 32 |
Analyzing Posture: The ideal alignment and the effect of different postures | p. 46 |
Achieving Good Posture: The correct posture for a wide range of activities | p. 68 |
Diagnosis and Prevention: Common back problems: causes, symptoms, prevention and anatomy | p. 86 |
Therapies and Practitioners: Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, Osteopathy, Rolfing and Structural Integration, Hellerwork, Feldenkrais Method, Alexander Technique, Yoga, Pilates, Swedish and Thai Massage | p. 98 |
Questions and Answers: Frequently asked questions answered by professionals | p. 112 |