7 Steps to a Pain-Free Life: How to Rapidly Relieve Back, Neck and Shoulder Pain

Description: 7 Steps to a Pain-Free Life by Robin McKenzie, Craig Kubey Since the McKenzie Method was first developed in the 1960s, millions of people around the world have successfully used it to end chronic back and neck pain. Now, Robin McKenzie combines and enhances his bestselling books into one volume with a new chapter on relieving shoulder pain. 7 STEPS TO A PAIN- FREE LIFE explains: *Common causes of lower back, shoulder and neck pain *The vital role discs play in back and neck health *Easy exercises that alleviate pain immediately 7 STEPS TO A PAIN- FREE LIFE is now fully illustrated, revised and updated, is one of the bestselling books on relieving chronic pain and, also, includes a new chapter on shoulder pain. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Notes A fully updated edition of the comprehensive guide to managing and preventing pain, including a new chapter. Author Biography ROBIN MCKENZIE was an internationally acclaimed physical therapist, who spent 40 years perfecting the McKenzie Method, now the keystone for back and neck care around the world. He died in 2013.CRAIG KUBEY is the author of seven previous books. He lives in Davis, California. Review "Patients who have learned to use McKenzies exercises assert for the first time that they could effectively manage–or banish–their own pain."—"Dear Abby""A fantastic guidebook for people with back or neck pain."—Dean Edell, M.D., author of Healing Back Pain Naturally"I think Robin McKenzies work is wonderful."—Art Brownstein, M.D., author of Healing Back Pain Naturally"The McKenzie Method has become a keystone for back and neck care, and this book is an invaluable tool for better health."—HealthNewsDigest.com Review Quote Praise for Excerpt from Book PREFACE THE CHANCE DISCOVERY I practice physiotherapy in New Zealand. In the different English spoken in the United States, this means I am a physical therapist. In 1956, I was only a few years into my career when a "Mr. Smith" came into the office. He complained of pain that extended from the right side of his lower back to his right knee. It was difficult for him to stand upright. He could bend forward, but he could not bend backward. For three weeks I treated him with heat and ultrasound. These were well-accepted therapeutic techniques then and remain so now. Nevertheless, Mr. Smith did not improve at all. Then, late on a Wednesday, Mr. Smith came in for another appointment. I greeted him and said, "Go into that treatment room, please. Undress and then lie facedown on the table, and Ill be in to see you." Mr. Smith complied--to the letter. I didnt know it, but another physiotherapist had left the therapy table at an odd angle: the front was elevated 45 degrees. Mr. Smith lay facedown on that table, his pelvis and legs horizontal, his torso sharply elevated in a position called extension. But I got a phone call, and then another physiotherapist needed to consult me. And so five minutes passed before I could attend to Mr. Smith. I knocked on his door, walked briskly in, and then froze. To my horror, I saw Mr. Smith lying in the bizarre position just described. Not only was the position odd; in 1956 the position was considered by the medical profession to be one that would cause damage to most any patient. I thought, "My God! What has he done? Has he made his injury much worse?" "How are you doing, Mr. Smith?" I asked gingerly. "Its the best Ive been," he replied in sunny tones. "All the pain in the leg is gone." I was astounded and mightily relieved, but I wanted to know more. "Hows the low back?" I inquired. "The funny thing is, the pain is a little worse, but its moved from the right side over to the center." "How are you tolerating that pain?" "Better. Its better when its in the middle there." Then he stood up. He could do this without pain! I asked him to try carefully to bend forward and backward. As you will recall, previously he could bend forward but not backward. Now, after those five minutes in that strange position, he suddenly could bend backward with only minor pain. His standing up did nothing to reverse the gains he had experienced on the table: there still was no pain in his leg, and the back pain remained centralized. I began to recover my equilibrium. "Oh, yes, thats fine," I said, stumbling only a little. But I wanted to be sure no damage had been done. "Could you walk around a bit?" I asked him. Mr. Smith walked around the treatment room. He walked quite normally. I was relieved. I felt that he had improved so much that we could ask for nothing more that day. "Well, thats long enough for today," I said. "Come back tomorrow and well try it again." The next day, Mr. Smith was back. And we repeated the same "treatment." After Mr. Smith had maintained that odd position on the table for about five minutes, all his remaining symptoms were gone. Mr. Smith taught me about extension. Learning from his remarkable recovery, I was able to develop exercises and postural-correction techniques involving extension and, later, flexion. On the following pages I will explain all these to you. Thanks to Mr. Smith, you are probably just one book away from being well on the road to recovery. IMPORTANT: If you have severe back or neck pain or are having your first episode of back or neck pain, do not use this book. See a physician or other health care provider. If you are now suffering from acute lower back pain, and have previously consulted a health care provider about your back pain, skip to Chapter 7, "Instructions for People with Acute Lower Back Pain." Similarly, if you have acute neck pain right now, and have previously consulted a health care provider about your neck pain, skip to Chapter 14, "Instructions for People with Acute Neck Pain." If you have back or neck pain that troubles you but is not acute, start with Chapter 1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ROBIN MCKENZIE To my patients who entrusted me with their care over the past forty years, I give my thanks and gratitude for teaching me all I know. I pass this on to you, the reader, and trust that you too can benefit. CRAIG KUBEY I am grateful to the many McKenzie-affiliated health practitioners in the United States who generously provided advice and other assistance in connection with this book. They include Dave Pleva, Vert Mooney, M.D., Ron Donelson, M.D., and McKenzie-credentialed physical therapists Todd Edelson, Gudrun Morgan, Aidan OConnor, Mary Sheid, Gerald Stern, Mary Stern, and Mark Werneke. Thanks also to Stacey Lyon of the McKenzie Institute U.S.A., who helped to put me in touch with the preceding physical therapists. I also thank Alan Kubey for computer assistance and Karen Kubey for photography; I thank them as well as Maki Kubey and Elizabeth Kubey for putting up with my work on this book. ALL OF US We thank our literary agency, RLR Associates (Scott Gould, Jonathan Diamond, Lisa Dicker, Jennifer Unter, Manuela Barbuiani, Gretchen Topping, Jason White, et al.), for its diligent work on this project. Further, we express our appreciation to the editorial, production, and publicity people at Dutton (beginning with editor in chief Brian Tart; his assistant, Kara Howland; and copyeditor John Paine) for their extensive efforts to meet the extraordinary demands of the project that produced this book. At Plume, wed like to thank the publisher of this new, dramatically expanded edition, editor in chief Phil Budnick, as well as Matthew Daddona, Jaya Miceli, Clare Ferraro, Norina Frabotta, and Katie Hurley. We also thank Jan McKenzie, former general manager of Spinal Publications New Zealand Ltd, who handled the New Zealand administrative side of producing the original edition with extraordinary intellect, effort, diligence, diplomacy, and humor. For this new edition, we thank Rachel Mason, Jans successor as general manager, who was enormously smart, quick, and helpful. We further acknowledge the precise and thorough work of previous general manager Jenny Bertelsen. And we must mention our other friends in New Zealand: We thank Stephen May, Rob Hughes, Ezequiel Gherscovici, Kate Allison, Carole Sweney, Rowley Watson, and Sue Lord for assistance with early work on the shoulder section. Regarding photographs in the book, we also thank our models Helen Macdonald, Brian McLean, and Gorman Ngai. Further, we acknowledge the creative expertise and guidance provided by Rachel Mason at Spinal Publications (already thanked earlier in another connection). We also thank Caroline Budge, Daniel Allean, Jono Smith, and istockphoto.com. Finally, we acknowledge the thousands of patients of Robin McKenzie and his associates who unknowingly provided most of the resolutions for back, neck, and shoulder pain that are described in this book. DEDICATIONS Robin McKenzies dedication appears on page v. Craig Kubey dedicates this book to his wife, Maki. INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION Introductions to important books are usually written by experts or celebrities. Or, even better, by experts who are celebrities. But I am neither an expert nor a celebrity. I am an attorney who gave up a public service legal career to become a writer. But most important to you, the reader, I am a beneficiary of the McKenzie Method. And I want you to be a beneficiary too. As you read these words, it is likely (because you chose to pick up this book) that you have back pain or neck pain. Ive been there. The main reason Im not there right now is Robin McKenzie. I have had plenty of good luck in my life and plenty of bad, but I have had the astonishingly bad luck to get not just one whiplash injury caused by a rear-end auto collision, but three. I have also had the more common experience of developing lower back pain during my forties. Because there are more back patients than neck patients, lets start with the back. For years I had occasional minor, very tolerable lower back pain for no reason known to me. But Im a runner: track and cross-country in high school, track at the University of California, Berkeley. One day on a family trip to Santa Cruz, California, I went for a short run in some rolling hills. No back pain during the run. But when I stopped, I had back pain that was severe. My family was a mile away, and it was a painful struggle to walk back to them. Back home, the pain was even worse. I remember one day when my wife and I were downtown and the car was a half block away. I asked her to go to the car and pick me up: the back pain was bad enough that I didnt even want to walk that half block. But having already benefited from the McKenzie exercises for the neck, I read the McKenzie exercises for the back. I focused on Back Exercise 3, Extension in Lying. Immediately, the back pain was better. In a few days it was so minor that it was of no concern to me. I also learned that I was wrong in my analysis of what had happened. People who run without pain but find their backs hurting immediately afterward blame the running. Same thing with other sports. But McKenzie says--and my experience has borne this out--that typically the problem is not the exercise but what one does afterward. My run had been short, but it had been in hills and at a fairly rapid pace. So when I finished, I was out of breath, and I bent over, hands on knees, just as so many runners and other athletes do after so many types of exercise. This was where I made my mi Description for Sales People Fully illustrated, revised and updated guide to managing pain. One of the bestselling books on relieving chronic pain, which has sold 5.5 million copies worldwide. Includes a new chapter on managing shoulder, back and neck pain. With more and more people working in desk bound jobs, back and neck pain is increasingly common. Contains easy exercises that alleviate pain quickly. Details ISBN0142180696 Author Craig Kubey Language English ISBN-10 0142180696 ISBN-13 9780142180693 Media Book Format Paperback Birth 1931 Short Title 7 STEPS TO A PAIN-FREE LIFE 2/ Edition 2nd Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2014-12-30 NZ Release Date 2014-12-30 US Release Date 2014-12-30 UK Release Date 2014-12-30 Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-12-30 Subtitle How to Rapidly Relieve Back, Neck and Shoulder Pain DEWEY 617.56406 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, unspecified Audience General Alternative 9781594771514 Pages 256 Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:101756076;

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