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It's All Academic
Considering that Alison Lurie is an award-winning novelist, I was surprised at the simplistic tone of this novel.As many reviewers have written, the beginning is quite promising;I was instantly captured by the first few paragraphs.Unfortunately, that interest was not sustained.
Sly Dig At Academia
Alison Lurie is a gifted, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, widely known for "The War Between the Tates," which is only one of her brilliant novels.
Ultimately a Folly
I love Alison Lurie, but this novel just missed the mark. I didn't care about ANY of the characters. Yes, they are all SUPPOSED to be insipid lying whiners...but I wanted to care just a little bit about what happened to them. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Back    2. Chronic pain    3. College teachers    4. Fiction    5. Fiction - General    6. Fiction - Psychological Suspense    7. General    8. Lurie, Alison - Prose & Criticism    9. Patients    10. Psychological    11. Wounds and injuries    12. Fiction / Psychological   

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Your Miraculous Back
Easy to read and understand without being overwhelmed by medical
Finally - something that makes sense!!
I've been experiencing lower back pain for about 7 years, and like the rest of us, nothing really ever worked. Doctors had no real solutions other than back surgery - which I certainly didn't want to consider. Amazingly, this book has helped and I did not have to go under the knife!! I am very thankful to have discovered this rare gem. The back stretching exercises have really worked, so much so - that after a month of exercising my lower back feels stronger and the pain that typically plagues me is practically gone. Additionally, I found the description of how the back joints, muscles, and bones work together, their make-up, and their proper purpose to be very helpful. For those of you who are at their wits end with back pains and think that the doctor advocating surgery is the only way to get relief - try this book first... it is well worth the read.
Knowledge is Power

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Subjects:  1. Alternative treatment    2. Backache    3. Chiropractic    4. Consumer Health    5. Diet / Health / Fitness    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health/Fitness    8. Neck pain    9. Pain Management    10. Physical Impairments    11. Popular medicine   

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Relieving Sciatica:Using Complementary Medicine to overcome pain of Sciatica
The author gave many different approaches to treating sciatica.I found the book helpful in this vein, but anyone looking for a specific treatment for sciatica should look elsewhere.

Helpful Advice
This is a good resource for those suffering from sciatica - anything that works for you will certainly be a relief.good Luck.

Good information
A lot of research was done for this book. It is well organized and written. Most people with long term sciatica are probably familiar with most treatment modalities listed.For those who aren't, it could be overwhelming as there are so many options yet in my experience so much depends on the practitioner.But for many sufferers of sciatica, perhaps there is a nugget here. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alternative Therapies    2. Alternative treatment    3. Backache    4. Consumer Health    5. Diet / Health / Fitness    6. General    7. Health & Fitness    8. Health/Fitness    9. Pain Management    10. Popular works    11. Sciatica    12. Complementary Medicine    13. Coping with illness    14. Health & Fitness / Diseases / General    15. Popular medicine   

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Great handbook
This is the best handbook on a pain related subject that I have ever seen. While certainly not intended to be an exhaustive review, it provides a great deal of practical info in an 'outline" form.Read more

Subjects:  1. Backache    2. Family & General Practice    3. Handbooks, manuals, etc    4. Internal Medicine    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Orthopedics    8. Surgery - General    9. General practice    10. Medical / Family & General Practice    11. Medical diagnosis    12. Orthopaedics & fractures    13. Physiotherapy   

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Marketing Rhetoric
This book is nothing more than a lengthy brochure written by chiropractors to promote the sale of continuing education seminars to other chiropractors. As one of the prior reviewers stated, there is NO INSTRUCTION on how to provide or perform an "ART" technique. The bulk of the book is simply a review of common repetitive strain injuries and treatment options which are common physical therapy techniques.
Release your pain
I never recieved the right order so I can't tell you wether I liked the book or not. You all keep sending me the wrong books and now I have three of the same ones............

A book for the patient
I found this book very useful in understanding Active Release.Because of it I found a solution for my Carpal Tunnel that actually worked.I nearly had to end my carrier. The first surgery did not work.This book lead me in the right direction. The exercises were also very helpful. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alternative Medicine    2. Alternative Therapies    3. Backache    4. Carpal tunnel syndrome    5. Chronic pain    6. Exercise therapy    7. Health & Fitness    8. Health & Fitness / Alternative Therapies    9. Health & Fitness / Pain Management    10. Health Risk Assessment    11. Manipulation (Therapeutics)    12. Medical    13. Overuse injuries    14. Pain Management    15. Repetition Strain Injury   

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A great book for the novice!
I thoroughly enjoyed The Back Rub Book; its friendly, themed lessons are a fun way to learn the art of massage.And this is the first massage book I've read which gives advice on ways to *receive* a massage and improve the experience! Excellent book on back massages
This is a great book for people who'd love to give a back massage. As a person who's taken three massage courses at university, I find this book helpful in refining my previously-learned techniques. Also, The Back RubBook has helped me learn some new ways of providing back massages. The Cookbook for Great Massages
The Back Rub Book is a great resource for anyone who wants to make other people feel good. Anne Rush explains a multitude of techniques in easy-to-understand language and provides "recipes" for massagesessions. These sessions have themes (i.e., a wake-up massage, massage forlovers, etc.) as well as specific techniques not found in other massagebooks. (My favorite is the Rocking Horse, which is performed on the back.)I've read quite a few massage books, but this is my favorite by far. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Back    2. Care and hygiene    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health Care Issues    6. Health/Fitness    7. Massage    8. Massage & Reflexotherapy    9. Surgery - General    10. Family & Health    11. Health & Fitness / Massage & Reflexotherapy    12. Popular medicine   

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Execellent book, written mostly for a health practitioner
This is a great book by a really good author.He is very grounded in science and there are a lot of different exercises.I am someone who is working to overcome back pain and about 50% of this book is too technical for me. Like some other authors talk about, one of the key points in the book is the some back pain is caused by poor posture and alignment of the pelvis. This is central to Pilates as well.I have found this to be true, but correcting it is the tricky part. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Physical Therapy    2. Backache    3. Exercise therapy    4. Health/Fitness    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Prevention    7. Surgery - General    8. Treatment    9. Fitness training    10. Physiotherapy    11. Sports injuries & medicine   

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Superb !
The author claims that his innovative self-treatment technique works miracles... and he is absolutely right. As a practitioner of acupuncture I have often been frustrated at my disability to treat myself when I was in pain. This book has given me the gift of being able to treat myself - and very very effectively. It is also a fascinating book for people interested in Chinese medicine.Read more

Subjects:  1. Acupuncture    2. Alternative Medicine    3. Medical    4. Chopsticks Acupuncture,Shmuel Halevi,Trafford Publishing,Acupuncture,self-treatment,healing,massage,acupressure,pain,disease,chopsticks,Chinese,backache.   

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Excellent Book.
This is an excellent book to help you fix your back injury if you have been in an auto accident like me. Full of useful tips, and general good advice. It's one of these self-help books that will help you tremendously dealing with the pain and suffering experienced after a personal injury. I am fond of self-help books, self-help websites and other self-help resources too, and this book is on the top of my list (others like this website http://www.settlementcentral.com) have helped me a lot on the legal side of my personal injury claim too. They even talked about chiropractic care as well as providing demand letters and other stuff useful if you have been in a car accident. This said, this is a book definitively recommended!

Sound advice, especially when you are hurting!
Last year I had a back injury that left me immobile for two months.During that time I read four back books to "empower" me with knowledge and tips for recovery.Dr. Homola's book (now with post-it-notes stuck in numerous chapters) was the most helpful.From helping to determine causes of pain, to outlining simple excercises you can do without buying expensive equipment, this book was the only one I really needed to read.It's a book I'll keep on hand as a helpful resource for years to come.

Very Informative.
I found this book very informative and have reccomended it to several others. When my herniated disk was causing lots of pain, I was desperate to get some relief. I just happened to find a reference to the author somewhere on the internet and even actually called him. He was very gracious to talk to me, shared some advice and kept me from making a very expensive decision concerning chiropractic care for my entire family. His book is straightforward and understandable. I thank him for the words of advice and his expertice, if your back is giving you trouble in any way, you'll find this book to be quite an interesting read. Thanks Mr. Homola! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Backache    2. Chiropractic    3. Consumer Health    4. Medical    5. Pain    6. Pain Management    7. Popular works    8. Self-care, Health    9. Work-Related Health   

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Machanical Low Back Pain : Perspectives in Functional Anatom
A very good technical read with lots of powerful detail. A must have for those looking at the human body as a complete system, and how low back pain may be the result of something in a persons foot, ankle, knee, hip, orother joint that all ties into the functional anatomy. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anatomy    2. Back Pain    3. Backache    4. Low Back Pain    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Orthopedics    8. Pathophysiology    9. Patients    10. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    11. Rehabilitation    12. Surgery - General    13. Orthopaedics & fractures    14. Physiotherapy   

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A. Weiss, author of the BackSmart Fitness Plan
I wish more books have been written on the benfits of water and back pain-This was one of the first steps I took in healing my own back pain and swimming uses muscles in a smooth and focus manner unlike many land based exercises. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aquatic exercises    2. Back Pain    3. Backache    4. Exercise    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health & Fitness / Exercise   

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Great Book!
This is one of the books in "Back Pain"that any spine care specialist should read. I personally feel fortunate to have done it. Six years ago, after finishing reading it( the 3rd edition, 1992), I was basically converted from a GYII physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Resident with little interest in taking care patients with low back pain, because of the lack of knowledge and skill,to someone who started considering a career as spine care specialist. Now, I am a fellowship trained spine interventional specialist,board certified by the American Board ofPhyiscial Medicine & Rehabilitation as well as by the American Board of Pain Medicine, practicing interventional pain management and spine care at the Physicians' Pain Specialists of Alabama, Mobile, Alabama. I am very thankful for this book because it helped me in moving the most important step towards becoming a spine care specialist. The authors did a superb job integrating things such as history, physical exam, spine mechanics, spine impages (X-ray, MRI, CT) together with clinical correlates. It is such an rewarding experience after reading this book to realize that I have achieved the ability to coorelate the spine image findings in X-ray, MR or CT with its spinal anatomical structures and then infer them to their specific clinical presentations. Most of the Chapters were well written, especially those on" Pathology & Pathogenesis of Low Back Pain", "The Site & Nature of the Lesion", "Lumbar Spine Imaging", "Differential Diagnosis of Low Back Pain", "The Three Phases & Three Joints" were extremely well written and informative.It has more lumbar spine images than any other spine care books that I have come across.
Excellent work!
This book has become one of the foremost referenced text for healthcare professionals on the causes of low back pain.It helps the reader to understand "Structural Findings" on x-rays/MRIs and to correlatethose with "Functional Findings" of restricted flexibility andsoft tissue pain.Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Physical Therapy    2. Back Pain    3. Backache    4. Chiropractic    5. General    6. Health/Fitness    7. LowBack Pain    8. Low Back Pain    9. Medical    10. Medical / Nursing    11. Orthopedics    12. Physical Therapy    13. Prevention    14. Surgery - General    15. diagnosis    16. Medical / Chiropractic    17. Orthopaedics & fractures   

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Book not designed for senior vision
The information and exercises in this book are good...BUT...certainly most of us with osteoporosis are past 60, as I am, and this book is fairly small at 5 1/2 x 8 inches. We need to have the print and illustrations larger, darker, and easier for us seniors to see.My husband agrees with me, and he also found the smaller and lighter print difficult to see and read. That fact didn't seem to be taken into consideration with the creation and publication of this book.

Literally a life saver!
After being in a car accident, dealing with fractured vertebrae and completing all the required bed rest, I was searching for something that would help me with the healing process.Being secure that I would not cause further injury to my spine by using the book as a guide and support, I began VERY slowly to try Sara Meek's program.I can only say that this book was my life saver.At the beginning I could only partially complete the most basic exercise, but I was determined to succeed.With the help of this program, both the exercises and the sense that I was getting better, I am now able to resume most daily activities and needless to say, my back has gotten straighter!Thank you Ms. Meeks.I hope you see this review.I have been wanting to thank you so much.I don't know how I would have made any progress without your help.
Very helpful!
This is a very good book for people who want to strengthen their backs, especially the upper back, and improve posture.The exercises (one to a page) are clearly explained, but not with too much explanation so you get lost, and the author tells how each exercise helps you. There are simple little drawings of people to show how to do each exercise. The exercises are not difficult, and you do not need to do dozens of repetitions. The book is a good size, not too big, and lays open flat.Read more

Subjects:  1. Back Pain    2. Backache    3. Exercise    4. Exercise Therapy    5. General    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health/Fitness    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Osteoporosis    10. Popular works    11. Posture disorders    12. Surgery - General   

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Great reference book
The first two chapters in the book make it worth the cost and the information in any Appendix makes it priceless. A word of caution, this book doesn't cover neck pain, but concentrates on the rest of the spine.I learned so much from keeping my back healthy to how to choose a physician if needed to finding legitimate web sites on the internet.This book is sure to help anyone who either has back or leg pain (often caused by back issues), anyone who loves someone with sort of pain, and those who wish to keep from having such pain.I can't recommend it enough.
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Subjects:  1. Back Pain    2. Backache    3. Consumer Health    4. Diet / Health / Fitness    5. General    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health/Fitness    8. Pain Management    9. Self-care, Health    10. Surgery - General    11. Treatment    12. Health & Fitness / General   

Subjects:  1. Back    2. Backache    3. Care and hygiene    4. Consumer Health    5. Diet / Health / Fitness    6. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    7. Medical    8. Neck pain    9. Pain Management    10. Popular works    11. Reference    12. Treatment   

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The only thing that helped me -- this book!!
I once suffered from continual back pain.This book did more than medications and therapists could do. Back Book Is ABlessing
After immobilizing myself with a painful back strain, my doctor prescribed muscle relaxants and anti-inflamatories and I prescribed myself information. Luckily I found this comprehensive gem that has given melong-term benefit after the medication gave me short-term relief. An excellent guide for strengthening your back
I first bought this book over ten years ago.My wife I and used it to strenghten our backs and relieve the stress from constant sitting required of our office jobs.The book is well laid out and offers an easilyunderstandable step by step exercise program for the back.It is wellpaced program over a several week period to prevent further injury by doingto much to soon.We wore the book out from our use and sharing it withfriends. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - General    2. Back    3. Backache    4. Consumer Health    5. Exercise    6. Exercise therapy    7. Health & Fitness    8. Health/Fitness    9. Healthy Living    10. Pain Management    11. Popular works    12. Exercise & workout books    13. Popular medicine   

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Using this book took me from crippled to good as new
Around the time of my pregnancy in 1995 I developed pain throughout my body that eventually reached a point where almost all the activities in life I loved were no longer available, and trying to get well became an obsession.
It worked for me!
I had an aching back for about five years, mostly in my lower back and sometines in my mid and upper back. I made the usual rounds between doctors, specialists, chiropractors, accupuncturists, and so on. The pain was always there, sometimes better sometimes worse. I used to wake up in pain and stiff most mornings.
Very disappointing .Advice possibly damaging.
The author of this book teaches the reader to talk down to their sub-conscious and treat it with disrespect. His advice tells the reader to treat the subconcious as a child.
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Subjects:  1. Diet / Health / Fitness    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health/Fitness    4. Pain Management    5. Back Pain    6. Backache    7. Healing    8. Health    9. Mind and Body    10. Neck Pain    11. Pain   

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Great resource!
This book offers an excellent overview of back pain and its underlying causes and treatments.The diagrams are very insightful and easy to understand yet they convey a great deal of information to the reader. Worth every penny!

If you could have one book about low back pain, this is it!
Dr. Cailliet offers excellent and easy to understand explanations of the symptoms, causes and treatments of low back pain.He writes in a manner that is easy to follow, with very effective illustrations of various typesof injuries, including herniated disks, arthritis and nerve problems.Anyperson without a clinical background can easily follow his descriptions ofthe causes of low back pain and treatment options.I was given a copy bymy neurologist and reference it often. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Backache    2. Health & Fitness    3. Medical    4. Pain Management    5. Questions & Answers    6. Reference    7. Surgery - General   

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Drawing upon clinical success & personal life experience
Eighty percent of pregant women experience back pain, yet the majority of such cases can be prevented and managed successfully. Author Alicia Silva, who earned a Master of Science in Physical Therapy and applies her experience treating patients part-time while developing educational resources for women, presents Preventing and Managing Back Pain During Pregnancy as a helpful guideline drawing upon both clinical success and personal life experience. Chapters address exercise guidelines, cardiovascular conditioning, strength training, stretching, recommended postures, management of post-partum back pain, recommended daily programs, and much more. Simple black-and-white illustrations clarify the exercise guidelines in this superb and highly recommended work for expectant mothers everywhere.
A much needed resource
I'm now on my third pregnancy. My back pain has been worse each time.Until now I have not been able to find a book that specifically covers this topic. This book has provided me with a clear exercise plan which has really reduced my pain.I would recommend it to all pregnant women. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health & Fitness / Pain Management    4. Health & Fitness / Pregnancy & Childbirth    5. Health & Fitness / Women's Health    6. Health/Fitness    7. Pain Management    8. Pregnancy & Childbirth    9. Women's Health - General    10. Back Pain    11. Backache    12. Pregnant women    13. Prevention    14. Treatment