Simple Ways to Reduce Back Pain Today: A Physical Therapist's Guide to Reducing Your Own Back Pain (at home) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798985697506)

With 33 years of experience as a physical therapist treating back pain, Sandra Janocha brings us professional insight on how to reduce back pain at home, even when other methods have failed.

Now you can learn the simple tools she gives patients that allow them to be a bigger part of their pain reduction team. Thousands of people have used these tools and seen significant and often times immediate reduction in back pain.

Often people who suffer from back pain are at the mercy of their healthcare providers, seeing their doctor or pain management specialist once a month, trying many different kinds of medications, and waiting for authorizations to see therapists. This is because healthcare is limited. Healthcare dollars are limited. Time with your doctor is limited. It's time to take a larger role in your own healthcare in order to reduce your pain as much as possible. You need to know how to treat yourself!

SIMPLE WAYS TO REDUCE BACK PAIN, AT HOME - A physical therapist's guide to reducing pain.

- Learning what to do when pain flares up

- Learning how to sit, stand and sleep to reduce strain on the back

- Use alignment strategies to reduce strain and pain in the spine

- Deal with common circumstances that tend to exacerbate back pain

- Determine which tools work for you so you can continue to reduce strain and pain forever

With ongoing adherence to these principles, people can get a 20%, 50%, and sometimes 100% reduction in lower back pain. Learn from an expert how YOU can manage your own back pain from home.

Sandra, a former chronic back pain sufferer herself, delivers a clear set of tools to teach and motivate you to increase your own participation in reducing back pain and increasing enjoyment of life.

By the end of this book, you will have tools to reduce back pain AND the awareness of which ones work for you. Then, using these tools consistently, you can help keep back strain and back pain at a minimum.

We all want less pain but ask yourself, WHY? What is your WHY? More time outside? More time with family? Better sleep? Better mood in your relationships? Now ask yourself, if I don't do something different, how will I be in a year from now.

This book will help you take the steps you need to change the direction of your pain. YOU can make a difference in your own body, your own life, and your future.