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 enlarge | Author: Rick Jemmett
Publisher: Novont Health Publishing Limited
Category: Book
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 178713
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0968871518
EAN: 9780968871515
ASIN: 0968871518
Publication Date: April 15, 2003
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 Best back rehab book I have found January 9, 2007
G. rhodes
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
After twelve years of leg and pelvis pain----and twelve ill advised surgeries by confused doctors---I undertook core strengthening. My pain is almost completely gone. This book has the best progression from basic to advanded of all the books I have looked at.
And BTW, my diagnosis is pelvic floor dysfunction, which explains why all my surgeries to the lumbar area were ill advised.
Learn core strengthening before ever consulting a surgeon. You could save yourself years of grief.
Very Helpful, Highly Recommended November 21, 2005
Kyle (Duke University, USA)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is an important book. I have had back problems since my freshman year when I injured my L5-S1 disc shoveling snow. I never needed surgery, but the episodes of pain gradually became worse and more frequent. By the time I was 36 (last year) I was having four or five, three to four week bouts of pain each year. A physician at Duke recommended this to me and I am stunned by the difference. I was getting used to having more and more pain each year, and with these exercises, the pain is controlled. The doctor said my back problem will require me to keep up the exercises, but so what? I finally have a means to control the pain - he and I are both confident that this will continue to work for me.
Mr Jemmett's book is easy to read and well organized. Most important, the book gave me the tools needed to both understand and control my problem. BTW - I noted that there are several books out right now that claim back pain is all stress-related. That seemed a little far fetched to me. The book does touch on this issue but states that while stress can be a factor sometimes, there are real physical changes in the muscles and nervous system that can explain much of the back pain experienced by the average person.
If you've got back pain, check with your doctor to be sure it isn't something serious (most likely it won't be). Then get this book - I highly recommend it!
Great Book November 21, 2005
JW (Canada)
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have been a orthodontist for about 18 years and for most of this time have had awful back and right calf pain. Sitting is the worst thing for me, but it's a position I have to be in for most of my professional day. I came to this book in an strange fashion - it turns out that I went to high school with the author of this book where he and I were both in the jazz band! After finding the book on Amazon I was able to locate Rick and ask him to recommend a physiotherapist here in Vancouver to help me with the program. I can now state that after only five weeks, my back and leg pain is cleared and I can sit for as much as I need to at work without being in agony. My most sincere thanks for this book - you were a pretty good drummer, but I'm glad you decided to go into health care!!
 Informative and easy to understand September 14, 2005
Kimberly J. Annis
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I felt this book was easy to understand and written in a friendly manner. Although I have a background of human sicence courses from college, I believe the author did a great job of teaching the anatomy of the spine and trunk pertaining to spinal stabilization and back pain. He did a step by step approach of a healthy spine, the anatomy of a healthy spine, an unstable spine, what may be the cause of an unstable spine, understanding what may cause your back pain, and therapeutic spinal stabilization. Breaking the book up into these chapters made it very easy to follow. The exercises are very well explained and easy to understand as well.
"Overall, the book is a great blend of research-based expertise and user friendly information" (Lisa Westlake, Physiotherapist and Australian Fitness Leader of the Year, 2000).
Get this book July 23, 2005
shar (Albuquerque, NM USA)
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
The second edition of `Spinal Stabilization- The New Science of Back Pain' (a. Rick Jemmett) gives readers a refreshing, at times amazing and yet an easy to read overview of the research and medical world's best understanding of how our lumbar region works and how this goes south when people have low back pathology. If the book did nothing else, this alone would be `worth the price of admission'. Jemmett's ability to synthesize the complex but necessary research findings from the various disciplines (anatomy, biomechanics, neurology, epidemiology and pathology) is unusual and as readers we are thankful. His ability to explain this information in a style accessible to the lay person is also commendable and is greatly appreciated.
Low back pain - while a common malady (most researchers begin their articles by noting that 80% of adults in the western world will experience a nasty bout of back pain at some point in their lives!) - is obviously an uncommonly complex problem as both traditional and non-traditional treatments have been so grossly unsuccessful. On this point the researchers are unified - treatment approaches to back pain such as strengthening exercises, walking, stretching, swimming, acupuncture, yoga, pilates, even surgery - are all highly inconsistent in their effectiveness. In other words, each might be expected to `work' in only 10 to 15% of cases. Even then, the relief provided by these various approaches is often short lived. Of those 80% of people who will have the big back pain episode, 70 to 75% of them will develop an ongoing, on and off again pattern of low back pain lasting many, many years. Jemmett's ability to explain the research - research which for the first time offers a reasonable explanation for why all this happens in the first place - is the key ingredient in this wonderful book.
For any of us with back pain, the first step in getting a real solution must be a real understanding of the problem. I was fortunate enough to read Jemmett's latest effort, a textbook written for health care professionals. As expected, the textbook goes into far more detail and uses all the big medical words that Jemmett so mercifully avoids in `Spinal Stabilization'. The benefit of the more advanced research review in the textbook is that we can readily see why the concepts discussed in Jemmett's books are so important. About fifteen years ago, the best low back researchers went off in a new direction, thinking outside the box, and in so doing discovered radically new and far more accurate ideas about low back pain. As Jemmett dryly states in the textbook, `every solution requires a problem'. What he means by this of course is that any true solution requires a complete understanding of the fundamental problem. Traditional approaches, known to work only inconsistently, were not developed with this understanding. The new research now provides this understanding, and not surprisingly, a far more effective solution has followed closely (several clinical trials of these methods have now been completed; the most lengthy study showed that the `Australian method' as described by Jemmett results in a 900 - 1200% reduction in back pain risk - a degree of improvement unheard of with traditional methods).
In my experience, the problem in communicating this wonderful news to patients (and readers) is that there are many voices in the low back pain wilderness all claiming to have `the cure'. Patients and readers are understandably baffled by all this noise and seem to have difficulty sorting out the good from the goofy. As a health care professional and academic I can confirm that this new research brings us much closer to a truly useful understanding of why your back hurts and what you should do about it.
`Spinal Stabilization' should be required reading for the majority of people with back pain. The message it provides is as unique in its validity as it is clear and understandable. In addition, I would strongly recommend a great new book by David Butler and Lorimer Mosely called `Explain Pain'. For those of you with truly chronic pain, this book is just as revolutionary as is Mr. Jemmett's.
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