Self Help For Backs

Simple advice and easy-to-follow self help programmes for all sorts of neck and back problems. Award-winning osteopath, Gavin Routledge motivates the reader to see a future without back pain, and helps them to get there.

60% of the adult population of the UK suffers from back problems. This book will show them that the key to managing low back pain is self-motivation and maintaining some level of exercise.

Self Help for Backs is a clearly laid-out, highly practical, non-text-heavy manual with photographs and line drawings demonstrating the exercises to take the reader through the recovery process.

Includes sections to explain:
• what causes neck and back pain
• what causes the different conditions such as lumbago, sciatica, muscle spasms, slipped and herniated disks, trapped nerves
• which back specialist to consult and what to ask them.
• how to use pain killers, ice, heat and lumbar support belts.
• bad posture; good posture – how to rebalance your posture.
• how to maintain gentle movement and build up slowly to exercise.