YUP, IT WORKS | 7 Steps to a Pain-Free Life: How to Rapidly Relieve Back and Neck Pain

Works with a certain type on back | 7 Steps to a Pain-Free Life: How to Rapidly Relieve Back and Neck Pain | Robin McKenzie, Craig Kubey

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	• 7 Steps to a Pain-Free Life: How to Rapidly Relieve Back and Neck Pain Robin McKenzie, Craig Kubey Plume, 2001 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 68 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Takes patience, and yes, heed the pain!

I'd recommend a slow and easy start with this book. This book is about extension (creating space between the discs so they don't pinch the nerves) but you also need to strangthen the muscles to get stronger. My back was healed mostly with swimming (try it!). I find that when I have to stand for several minutes at a stretch, the McKenzie exercises relax my back like magic. None of your muscle strengthening exercises will give you relief when you're really in pain. And it's better than traction as you can control how much stretching you can take. I had a strong and healthy back till my gym instructor introduced me to the barbell and progressed me too fast to very heavy weights. Which goes to show that when it comes to your body, take it easy and don't expect miracles....or you can end up worse than you started.

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YUP, IT WORKS

[October 2004]
In July 2004 I suffered an episode of absolutely incapacitating low-back pain that had me laid up flat on my back for 2 days, with VERY slowly abating symptoms for about 2 months following that.
Just when I thought I was finally getting better, I tweaked my back again in mid-September and was back to two days of bedrest/ice/etc.

Honestly, the hardest part of the experience was the thought of being trapped in this pain cycle for the rest of my life with nothing I could really do about it (I am 36).
I went to the chiropractor once to twice a week after the July episode for about 7 weeks and again after the September incident. Also went to a 'regular' back specialist.
Chiropractic treatment helped but barely stabilized the pain and fragility I was feeling.

After TWO DAYS of McKenzie my symptoms are GONE. I feel energized (mostly psychologically relieved) and much more positive. There is this wonderful feeling of being able to do something actively to help yourself get better.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!

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Works with a certain type on back

Generally, the McKenzie method works well with stiff spines that have lost the natural lordosis(lower back curvature) required to minimise pressure on the intervertebral discs. For hypermobile lumbar spines, these exercises may make symptoms worse and stabilsation exercises are more appropriate. A good physiotherapist will assess which category you fit into. The book serves as one of the best educational resources around, and anyone who has "bad posture" after reading it may have misread or misunderstood the text.

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I Don't Know About the Science, But It Worked For Me!

I've had tension headaches developing out of neck pain on a regular basis ever since I was involved in an auto accident 6 years ago. I would take Advil by the handfuls every almost every day. I started a combination of 4 of the 7 neck exercises in the book and have decreased the Advil use by 95%. I still have stiffness in my neck from time to time, but it just doesn't go beyond that anymore. I had tried chiropractic care and injections, but this is the only thing that has worked. I really can't explain it.

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