Ending Back Pain
5 Powerful Steps to Diagnose, Understand, and Treat Your Ailing Back
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Publisher Description
A totally new paradigm for treating back pain
Virtually every American will suffer from back pain at some point. Dr. Jack Stern, a neurosurgeon and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, brings relief to these millions of sufferers (including himself) who literally ache for help. Based on the latest scientific data, Dr. Stern developed a five-step solution with a multidisciplinary, holistic perspective that’s been missing from conventional back pain wisdom: Step One: Unlock your back’s unique pain codeStep Two: Prepare to work with health care professionalsStep Three: Ensure proper diagnosisStep Four: Embrace various pathways to healingStep Five: Live a life that supports a strong, healthy backEngagingly written and chock-full of enlightening case studies, Ending Back Pain finally shares the program that’s already helped more than 10,000 grateful patients.
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Neurosurgeon Stern, a professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, specializes in spinal surgery and is cofounder of Spine Options, a facility committed to nonsurgical care of neck and back pain. He helps readers become their own advocates in a quest to break the "secret code" to their back pain the second most common neurological ailment in the U.S. Stern emphasizes that an accurate diagnosis is the only way to address the problem, and defines and explains six pain generators. In separate chapters, the author advises readers on how to unlock their "pain code," prepare to work with health care professionals, ensure a proper diagnosis, embrace pathways to healing, and learn to live a life that supports back health. Stern advocates a holistic, less-is-more approach, and notes that surgery often doesn't eliminate pain; he encourages readers to equip themselves with as much knowledge as possible. The author also shares his own adventures with back pain and uses anecdotes from his practice to illustrate that back pain can come from many sources (such as kidney stones or a bacterial infection, as well as more obvious causes). Readers with back pain will find this resource rich with valuable information and advice.
