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The Wharton's Back Book

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If a person with back problems reads and follows the advice in this book, their situation will improve. There is no magic fix for back pain, but the vast majority, regardless of the diagnoses, will be reduced or even eliminated by correcting the imbalances in the hips. This book tells how to do this. The imbalances were developed over many years, so it will take some time to overcome them. If you want a healthier back, this is the answer, provided you are willing to put in the time and effort.

I and my wife are physicians. She suffers from lower back problems. This book contains easy to follow picures and directions for the exercises. I was very pleased to see their balanced (and truthful) comments regarding durgs and alternative therapies. I agree with their advice toseek professional opinions as other diseases can mimick lower back problems.
A well written and illustrated book.

I bought the Wharton's Stretching book and liked it, finding it very useful as a martial artist. This book, however, merely rehashes everything in the Stretching book, but in an inferior manner. Although it has photos instead of drawings, the Wharton's Stretch book clearly shows acceptable ranges of motion for each stretch. In addition, the Back Book has a section on training with weights that bordered on ridiculous. The author's clearly know little about neither weight training as therapy nor weight training for strength and flexibility. This book was a real disappointment. Buy their first book, avoid this one.

Don't listen to the guy who says he is a martial artist. He was being negative, and didn't even include a measure of credibility such as his name, or martial arts of practice to back up his negative claim.

If you want to look at a sample of this book, go to Google books, and you can read the first 20 or 30 pages. when you do that you'll understand why this book can help you prevent back pain.

Everyone from Construction workers to those who sit in an office every day need to use this book. This book is a tool, that i use instead of going to the chiropractor, which i have now learned is useless, and perpetual.

I bought this book after reading some of the pages on Google books. I really liked the fresh approach to back pain, which chiropractors had not been able to help. The chiropractor i had attended would help my pain go away, and as if i was leaving a barber, or a gas station tell me to come back soon. The visit cost $75 each time i visited. I visited every other week, and sometimes once a week depending on weather i was working as a computer technician, or helping my father with some manual labor as part of his construction, and renovation company.

As i read this book i learned that your back and neck are not supposed to go out all the time, and this book taught me how to stretch properly so that my back wouldn't go out as much.

The thing that i didn't understand was that the stretches not only stretch your muscle, but they align your back while you are doing them, which is the same thing my chiropractor did, only he used an electrical stimulator to loosen my muscles, which did not strengthen them.

This book has helped me more than i thought possible. I didn't buy from amazon, i wanted to tell others what this book has done for me. I haven't been to the chiropractor in 3 months.

This is an excellent book I was delighted to find. I have used the Wharton's Stretch Book for myself and family and with clients since it was published and this book expands specifically on the problems folks have with backs. I am a Massage Therapist and have seen clients and family relieve and reduce back pain and improve over all through the use of the information in this book. Excellent!!!

This book is OUTSTANDING! I am so convinced by the program in this book that I tell everyone I know that has back problems about it. I bought one for my sister. I bought it because of past back problems and more recent because of my knees, which have all stopped hurting. This book should be called Personalize your fitness program.If you are committed to doing something about back pain or need a fitness program, you should buy this book. It is straightforward, honest and sensible information, everything you heard for years about getting out of pain and or getting FIT. Finally someone writes it where it all makes sense!

I have been using this for nearly three weeks. My lower back pain has improved but it is not gone. I do not know how important the stretches are for this. The exercises are not difficult so I do not have to brace myself to do them like I do for many exercises. For the first three weeks one is to do the lower body and upper body stretches. I have a bad shoulder and I do think the stretches help the shoulder.

Many of the reviews talk about how it takes twice as long as the book says to do the stretches. I find that after the first week or so of learning the exercises I finish the stretches in less than 19 minutes. The book says 20 minutes. Many of the reviews say the stretches take much longer. Latter they add strengthening exercises and I do not know how long that will take. My assumption about the stretches is that if you are taking much more than 20 minutes you are not efficient in going from one stretch to the next, or you do not really understand how to do the stretch. Maybe both. I do the full ten repetitions on all stretches.

I believe that the principle of balancing muscles is probably very important to back pain. Whether doing this general program will help without specific diagnosis I do not know. I have not read the book past how to do the exercises. That is the first 100 pages.

Some people suggested that it was not clear how to do the exercises. I may be doing them wrong but the explanations seem clear to me. I have no complaints. I have just not had time to properly evaluate the long term results of using the program.

I gave it four stars rather than five because I have not had time to evaluate the long term result and that is what really matters. I tend to get down in the back and it gets better. Then it happens again. Because of this cycle this gradual improvement may not be from the exercises.

A definitive treatise on taking care of your back. A neurosurgeon told me it was one of the best to follow for long term back maintenance.

I have been looking for exercises I can do since I have back problems. The thing is I also have neck problems and shoulder problems. I have gone to physical therapy, had surgery and still have problems. My sister just got licensed for personal trainer and between the two of us and consulting my orthopedic surgeon we have been able to find exercises that have actually helped me strengthen my back without makeing it worse. It has been doing better and so am I. Now I can get back on an exercise regime and know what I can do that won't hurt my back, but will actually help it. know matter what I would still always ask my doctor if the exercise was ok if there is a back problem first before I did it just in case. But I think the book is great. I bought one for my sister so she could have her own.

I have suffered from Back problems for years. By diligently applying this work I have experienced relief as never before - thank you Whartons!