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Heal Your Back: 4 Steps to a Pain-free Life
Packed with real-life anecdotes and case studies, drawn from Anisha Joshi's extensive experience as an osteopath, this book will relieve your pain, take charge of your symptoms and future-proof your health! Back pain can adversely affect quality of life. Around 80 per cent of us experience lower back pain at some point, and it is the chief cause of disability among those under 45 in the UK, contributing to missed work days, mental health decline and long NHS waiting lists.Starting with the basics of understanding how your back works and moving through the different types of back pain, as well as the causes and symptoms, Anisha will draw on her years of experience in clinic to show you how you can manage your symptoms and bulletproof your back using a simple four-step Keep moving; Change your mindset; Eat well; SleepUsing evidence-based research, award-winning osteopath Anisha will help you to understand the real causes of back pain (often not what we might think), and offers practical, everyday advice to help you take care of your back, overcome your pain and live a healthier, happier, pain-free life.
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288 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2024
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October 8, 2024
A practical guide to achieving a healthier and pain free back.
Gosh I wish I’d had this book decades ago. I thought Heal your Back was brilliant.
Divided into three parts which Anisha Joshi recommends are read consecutively, Heal Your Back is crammed with accessible and informative material that enables readers to gain knowledge about how their back is structured and functions, through practical methods that improve back health to the kinds of treatments that might still be needed by some readers. Add in extensive, authoritative endnotes and a list of useful resources, and Heal Your Back is a guidebook to retain next to the bed and refer to continually. I thought the case studies dotted throughout the text were fascinating and gave excellent context to the chapters. They might well be highly relatable for some readers, thereby assisting their own back pain recovery.
What works so well is the authorial style. Anisha Joshi obviously knows her stuff, but her tone is warm, friendly and conversational so that it feels as if she is chatting personally with the reader, making her advice all the more effective. I thoroughly enjoyed the sections on exercise as many of the activities are those I encounter in my Pilates/Yoga class and which have made a considerable positive impact on my back’s flexibility, so that I can personally vouch for the fact that Anisha Joshi’s advice works. Her everyday exercise activities mean that there’s no need for expensive equipment, or gym membership, but that readers can improve their back health through easily adopted ‘habit stacking’. We all clean our teeth, but how many of us think about using that time to help our backs?
However, the most fascinating aspects were the mental and emotional approaches. I’d never considered that I might be exacerbating any back pain because of my approach to it. Thinking of my body as a smoke detector (read the book – it’s a brilliant analogy) is something I’ll be considering much more in future.
It’s quite difficult to review Heal Your Back without giving away too many of the contents. I want to say, ‘Anisha said x’ or ‘Anisha recommends y’ but that would be to do this excellent text a disservice. Heal Your Back needs to be read carefully and closely. Its advice needs to be incorporated into everyday life and it deserves a place in every home. Do your back a favour and buy yourself a copy. I’m not parting with mine.
Gosh I wish I’d had this book decades ago. I thought Heal your Back was brilliant.
Divided into three parts which Anisha Joshi recommends are read consecutively, Heal Your Back is crammed with accessible and informative material that enables readers to gain knowledge about how their back is structured and functions, through practical methods that improve back health to the kinds of treatments that might still be needed by some readers. Add in extensive, authoritative endnotes and a list of useful resources, and Heal Your Back is a guidebook to retain next to the bed and refer to continually. I thought the case studies dotted throughout the text were fascinating and gave excellent context to the chapters. They might well be highly relatable for some readers, thereby assisting their own back pain recovery.
What works so well is the authorial style. Anisha Joshi obviously knows her stuff, but her tone is warm, friendly and conversational so that it feels as if she is chatting personally with the reader, making her advice all the more effective. I thoroughly enjoyed the sections on exercise as many of the activities are those I encounter in my Pilates/Yoga class and which have made a considerable positive impact on my back’s flexibility, so that I can personally vouch for the fact that Anisha Joshi’s advice works. Her everyday exercise activities mean that there’s no need for expensive equipment, or gym membership, but that readers can improve their back health through easily adopted ‘habit stacking’. We all clean our teeth, but how many of us think about using that time to help our backs?
However, the most fascinating aspects were the mental and emotional approaches. I’d never considered that I might be exacerbating any back pain because of my approach to it. Thinking of my body as a smoke detector (read the book – it’s a brilliant analogy) is something I’ll be considering much more in future.
It’s quite difficult to review Heal Your Back without giving away too many of the contents. I want to say, ‘Anisha said x’ or ‘Anisha recommends y’ but that would be to do this excellent text a disservice. Heal Your Back needs to be read carefully and closely. Its advice needs to be incorporated into everyday life and it deserves a place in every home. Do your back a favour and buy yourself a copy. I’m not parting with mine.
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