What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Back Pain
The 6-Step Program for Lasting Relief
Chapter One
Your Aching Back: Why You Hurt
It's pretty basic: Before you can find effective, safe, long-lasting
relief for your chronic back pain, it helps to know why you hurt.
Once you have a handle on the cause of your pain, you can begin to
review and implement the various approaches described in this book
to help alleviate it. I also believe that you should have some
knowledge of how to recognize the different conditions that may be
causing your back pain and, more important, how to explain your pain
and any accompanying symptoms. In this way, you can help your
health-care practitioner arrive at a more accurate diagnosis. Also,
I find that patients are more likely to stick with and follow a
treatment program if they understand what they are treating and why.
So let's get started with a few basics and then move on to the
causes of your pain.
I introduce quite a few terms in this chapter and in the next one
and a few illustratio ... read full excerpt from: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM) Back Pain: The 6-Step Program for Lasting Relief ebook
