Say Goodbye to Back Pain

EPILOGUE You may well ask after wading through this book – “OK, so what’s the big deal? I already know most of this stuff.” That ...

TEN ACTION POINTS FOR SEVERE BACK PAIN 1 If the pain is intense, stop doing whatever you are doing. Find a comfortable position ...

BACK PAIN (^) PATHOLOGICAL CAUSE NO PATHOLOGICAL RED FLAGS (^) BUT NO RED FLAG CAUSE^ (^) APPROPRIATE SURGICAL (^) P (^) STEP ON ...

POINTS TO REMEMBER  Back and neck pain is very common. Four out of five people suffer from pain during their lives. IN MOST CAS ...

GLOSSARY (^) WORD^ DEFINITION^ The most common type of back pain. Acute pain often begins (^) Acute Pain suddenly — e.g. after a ...

Hamstrings^ Long muscles at the back of the thigh^ A condition where the center (nucleus pulposus) of the (^) Herniated disc int ...

Transverse processes Broad flat projections from each vertebral body on either side (^) that function as attachments for spinal ...

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SAY GOODBYE TO BACK PAIN (^) (^) (^) (^) RANJAN VENKATESAN MD, FRCOG, MBA ...

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PREFACE Back pain is one of the most common disorders affecting half the population of the world at any point in time. It is amo ...

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Contents PREFACE PROLOGUE Some Facts and Figures Spine – Structure and Function The muscles of the spine Mechanical causes of b ...

PROLOGUE HI! Welcome to one of the commonest health problems on earth. At my age (and I have batted for a good many decades now) ...

The very fact that you are reading this book is proof enough that you are not satisfied with the truckloads of information on ba ...

Some Facts and Figures Every year, nearly 50% of the adult population worldwide will experience at least one episode of back pai ...

 Women are more likely than men to reduce their activity due to back pain. Investigations The introduction of modern diagnostic ...

Treatments Since there is, very rarely, a definitive diagnosis for anyone complaining of severe low back pain, a plethora of the ...

since I started practicing all that I have written in this book. Ever since I found out exactly what to do for my back-pain I ha ...