Aryana Libris

Authors : McKenzie Robin - Kubey Craig
Title : 7 steps to a pain-free life How to Rapidly Relieve Back and Neck Pain using McKenzie method
Year : 2000

Link download : McKenzie_Robin_-_7_steps_to_a_pain-free_life.zip

Introduction by Craig Kubey. 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. I've been there. The main reason I'm 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 have had 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, let's start with the back. For years I had occasional minor, very tolerable lower back pain for no reason known to me. But I'm 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 half a block away. I asked her to go to the car and pick me up: the back pain was bad enough that I didn't even want to walk that half block. But having already benefitted from the McKenzie exercises for the neck, I read the McKenzie exercises for the back. I focused on 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 had been 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 is where I made my mistake. ...