Revised Edition
This is a book to use and keep for your whole life. Not a "quick-fix" or "overnight" solution, this book is comprehensive and is the only guide to overcoming or preventing neck and back pain that you will ever need. In a practical, step-by-step guide to exercise which can be done at home, this book shows you how to overcome neck and back pain and how to develop and maintain a strong, supple spine to old age.
Vital to anyone who has suffered neck and back pain or wishes to avoid it, this book is a genuinely new approach to the self-treatment of recurring neck and back pain. There are three main strands to this approach: Stretching, Relaxation and Strengthening exercises, which are presented in an easy-to-learn way.
The book is equally useful to sportspeople, athletes and armchairs athletes, men and women, the young and the not-so-young and is convenient to use and includes specific exercises for postural problems; a script for self-relaxation, to help sleep, healing or enhance sporting performance; a chapter on theory including perspectives from various types of medicine and an analysis of the author's approach.