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  • EDITION:
    1st Edition
  • ISBN:
    0071467653
  • ISBN-13:
    9780071467650
  • PUB. DATE:
    February 2007
  • PUBLISHER:
    McGraw-Hill Companies, The
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Heal Your Aching Back: What a Harvard Doctor Wants You to Know about Finding Relief and Keeping Your Back Strong / Edition 1 by Jeffrey N. Katz, Gloria Parkinson

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Chances are excellent that someone close to you suffers back pain. Few people manage to avoid completely the pain of wrenched, twisted, strained or pulled back muscles. Most of the time, back injuries are minor and the pain eventually dissipates. But millions of people suffer relentless, agonizing back pain that prevents them from living normal lives. They go from specialist to specialist, frustrated...

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Heal Your Aching Back

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  • Pub. Date: February 2007
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
  • Sales Rank: 619,088

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If you're holding this book, you already know how hard it is to live with back pain. Even harder is knowing what to do about it. This authoritative and comprehensive guide, written by a Harvard doctor who has struggled with back pain himself, will help you find the real cause of your problem-and the smartest way to treat it. This simple step-by-step program will show you how to: Get the right diagnosis for your type of back pain, Find the most effective treatment, including complementary therapies, Control pain through specific exercises, massage, and yoga, Avoid surgery, prevent reinjury, and strengthen your back for life. Dr. Katz also gives you the most up-to-date information on chiropractic care, new pain medications, alternative physical therapies, and back surgery.

About the Author:
Dr. Jeffrey N. Katz is an associate professor of medicine and orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, codirector of the Brigham Spine Center, director of the Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research of Brigham and Women's Hospital, and deputy editor of the journal Spine

Biography

Dr. Jeffrey N. Katz is an associate professor of medicine and orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, codirector of the Brigham Spine Center, director of the Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and deputy editor of the journal Spine.