Beat Back Pain: Smart and Simple Ways to Ease the Strain (52 Brilliant Ideas) [Mass Market Paperback]

Relief could be at hand… the book highlights the most successful remedies and has plenty of useful tips. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Dr Chambers is a natural communicator and has produced a book full of practical advice --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"...inspiring chapters packed with practical advice and expert
tips." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"Full of spine-friendly strategies, easy self-manipulation
exercises and the best alternative therapies." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"Relief could be at hand... the book highlights the most
successful remedies and has plenty of useful tips." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"Packed with clear and relevant material...this would be a good
book for reference in a waiting room or library." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"...you'll find real nuggets of information.." "This book feels
like a comfortable chat with an old friend. It's refreshingly free of
jargon and there's an occasional giggle too."
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"Back pain can destroy lives. Often people just learn to live with it, suffering with little more than a few pain killers to get them through each day. Chances are they’ve tried every supposed remedy going, spent precious time and money on expert advice and yet still find simple tasks like putting away the groceries or getting out of a car an ordeal.

As a practising GP I come across people like this virtually every day. In Beat Back Pain, I use my years of experience to guide you through a myriad of (often conflicting) advice. I will help you to better understand what triggers your problem and what may alleviate it. I may not be able to cure your bad back, but I can help you live with it more comfortably."
DR RUTH CHAMBERS

Back problems make people’s lives a misery. Beat Back Pain will help sufferers understand their problems and work with real strategies and ideas to help them overcome it. In the book, Dr Chambers reveals:
• The basic anatomy of the spine… what can go wrong?
• How to sift through the available pain killers
• All you need to know about physiotherapy and surgery
• Useful self-manipulation exercises
• How to discover what triggers your back pain before it’s too late
• Useful tips and techniques for lifting
• Alternative therapies

52 BRILLIANT IDEAS SERIES
With the 52 Brilliant Ideas series readers can enhance their existing skills with negligible investment of time or money and will substantially improve their performance over the course of a year. Each of the 52 chapters tackles a single aspect of the subject in an entertaining and lively way. At the end of each chapter is a "how did it go?" feature which allows readers to reflect on the lesson in a classic experimental learning pattern. The tone of each book is personal and informal; readers will feel as though they are having a one-to-one with their favourite coach. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

HAVE AN IDEA ON US…
Use pillows creatively in bed to stop yourself rolling over if an inadvertent movement is agony. Line them up against you back whilst lying on your side so they wedge you in position. A pillow placed under your bent knees may help to keep you in a position that suits your back, especially if pain radiates down one of your legs. Or lie on your back with two pillows rolled within a towel placed under your knees. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Ruth Chambers has been a GP for over 20 years. During that time she has been a professor of general practice at Staffordshire University and written over 40 books, including Back Pain Matters in Primary Care (Radcliffe Medical Press, 2001). Ruth is currently undertaking a project for the Department of Health as part of its 'Back to Work' campaign; helping GPs and pharmacists to help the general public return to work after illness or injury. Ruth is consulted so often by other doctors she is often described as a GP’s GP. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.