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 Worked like a charm for my elderly mother's back pain March 18, 2008
Gail Slavin (Delray Beach, FL)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchaed this book for my elderly mother, a retired nurse, who had been to four back specialists and resorted to pain block injections for her spine, which looks like a twisted road in an X-ray. Nothing the doctors told her to do or take, including physical therapy, seemed to alleviate the pain. But when she started doing the exercises in this book, she was able to sleep and function 85% better than before. She does the excises in bed morning and evening. I would recommend it to anyone with back pain, regardless of their age.
If you have back pain, this book will help you October 26, 2007
Delighted (Newport News, VA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book! When you read it, you know instinctively that what you're reading is true. If you're in enough pain to try even some of the exercises and ideas in the book, it will help you.
Back Pain Gone August 16, 2007
Suzie Armstrong
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Twice in my life I have experienced debilitating back pain: twenty years ago, which resulted in a successful spinal fusion, and eight weeks ago--a bolt of electricity shot through my lower back, not once but twice. Ouch! Not wanting to relive my earlier experience, I read Healing Back Pain Naturally from cover to cover and applied the principles as I read.
Art Brownstein addresses all aspects of back pain from the various causes of the pain to principles of self healing. There are excellent photographs and written descriptions of stretches which promote healing. He also factors in the role stress plays and includes several breathing/relaxation/visualization techniques to practice. He covers nutrition, returning to work and to play, and emotional healing. A list of recommended reading is included for those who wish to explore furthur.
At this time, I am 90% healed. Just have to stick with the program everyday. And I will.
At Least Do Phase I For One Week Before Giving Up On This Program July 10, 2007
m. avila (Stockholm)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have purchased 6 of these books, I have given 5 of them to friends who are suffering from back pain or know some one who is. The ones who have started the program and done at least the Phase I exercises have reduced their pain and their condition has improved. I bought the first book because one of my friends was in great pain and chiropractic adjustments had not helped, he did not have insurance nor money for MRI or Orthopedic Medicine, so I bought the book, read it from cover to cover, did the exercises myself and ask my friend to do them, at first he was skeptical and felt that if doctor visits, pain medication, girdles and chiropractors had not helped "Do you think exercises on the floor will help me? You are crazy." Well I convinced him that he had nothing to lose by trying. I showed him the book and I took him through all the Phase I exercises, he did those for a week and he noticed that the pain seemed to be less intense: "May be we are onto something" he said. Within a month, he could sleep better and now a few years later he is almost pain-free, he has confessed that when he does not do the exercises the pain seems to come back, so every night and morning he does the Phase I exercises only, I believe that if he did all three phases he would probably fix his problem which he thinks is a herniated disk. I do the exercises my self and I am much more flexible, once I helped a friend unload a heavy bag from the trunk of the car and my back went out. I rested on my back for one day and did the exercises and within a week I was feeling better.
Thanks Doctor Brownstein, you have truly helped lots of people with this book.
These are my recommendations to heal your back.
1. Buy a hard mattress, go to the furniture store that caters to the Chinese or Korean community and buy a Korean made mattress, they are hard.
2. Buy this book, preferably the hard cover edition and read as much as you can and do at least the Phase I exercises. If you are in extreme pain you may only be able to do the first exercise of the Phase I set of exercises only, this is why it is important you read the chapters that precede the exercises so you understand how the back works and what could go wrong with it and what you need to do when something goes wrong with it.
3. Do at least the Phase I exercises. Do all the exercises if possible, Phase I through Phase III.
4. Enroll in a Yoga class.
In the reviews I see that some people claim that they tried this program and did not work for them. I can only say that if you did the exercises for one or two days and gave up, then you have truly denied yourself from the great benefits that this program can bring. You need to do at least the Phase I exercises one month everyday--faithfully; then make a judgment on whether this program is beneficial.
Best wishes to all.
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! May 2, 2006
Stroganoff
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
To the author, a great big THANK YOU! I have read dozens of books about back pain, been to physiotherapists and doctors, taken medication and tried numerous exercise programs, and nothing worked. However, thanks to this book, I finally have relief from long-term, chronic back pain.(Herniated disk in lower back.)
This book is worth the cover price just for the exercises alone. I have been completing the Phase 1 exercises on a daily basis and already I can put on my socks and pants with ease, bend over to dry my feet when I get out of the shower, easily get in and out of bed without pain, etc. I even sat through a 2-hour workshop today and felt no pain when I stood up. This would have been impossible previously. For example, a couple months ago, I went to a restaurant with friends and when I stood up at the end of the meal, I felt so much pain in my back and hip that I could not stand up straight. Not now! I can stand up straight and I am pain-free.
I will admit to having some doubts about the mind-body connection referred to in the book. However, it is all so well presented, that I am willing to consider it. That aside, I think the exercises alone provide so much pain relief that it is still a very valuable book. I am going to buy it to give to a couple people as gifts.
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