Treat Your Own Neck 4th Ed

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Manufacturer: Orthopedic Physical Therapy Products

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780958269247
ISBN: 0958269246
Label: Orthopedic Physical Therapy Products
Manufacturer: Orthopedic Physical Therapy Products
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 46
Publication Date: 2006-12-01
Publisher: Orthopedic Physical Therapy Products
Release Date: 2006-12-01
Studio: Orthopedic Physical Therapy Products

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McKenzie's widely-applied patient handbook for common neck pain will help you learn to relieve your neck problems and prevent recurrence of symptons in the future. Treat Your Own Neck is a handbook that offers a step-by step system of eductaion, awareness, exercise and prevention.

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Summary: Great Product
Comment: Treat Your Own Neck was a great product for the price. There were some really good tips that helped with my neckpain. Definitely worth a try if you have neck pain that just won't seem to go away.

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Summary: Sounds too good to be true, but it isn't!
Comment: I've suffered headaches (at temples and behind the eyes, and straining up the back of my neck), pain and stiffness of the neck and upper shoulder, and knots between my shoulder blades on either side of my spine. After trying massage (the thing that works best), pain killers and muscle relaxants, and yoga, I gave in and bought this book. I received Treat Your Own Neck only yesterday, and did the exercises after dinner. It is unbelievable how much flexibility I regained after only the first time doing them. The author predicts that first-timers will feel soreness in other areas of the body after beginning these exercises, and sure enough, I did wake up today with soreness in other parts of my back - it is akin to going to the gym for the first time in a while, and feeling the soreness from having worked out. But the flexibility remains. I've done the exercises three times now (it takes only a few minutes), and each time it makes me feel very nearly as good as the $100-a-pop hour-long massages I'd have to get in order to be able to turn my head right and left. I am sure you may be like me, finding it so hard to believe that a slim volume like this can make a difference - but it does, and what a difference it's made! It's only natural to doubt that after three days of this (as McKenzie predicts) I likely will be pain-free, but I can see that I'm well on my way, and it hasn't even been 24 hours! This is such a small investment that - at least for me - paid such huge returns. I also bought the McKenzie® Cervical Roll Neck Support and the The Original McKenzie Super Roll Lumbar Roll to ensure myself a more pain-free future. And I bought Treat Your Own Back for my husband.

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Summary: I was skeptical but.....
Comment: I have a herniated cervical disk that has caused some numbness in my arm and hand. I went to physical therapy but that really aggrevated the condition. I tried this book when my numbness was getting worse. I knew the book was very short - more like a long pamphlet, but the reviews seemed great, so I said, what the heck. Well, after doing the exercises for a few months, it turns out it has really helped me. Unlike some other books, there are not a ton of exercises (which can overwelm and confuse). There are only around 8 exercises and you don't do them all, only the ones that the book tells you to do for your specific situation. I have been doing only 2 regularly. It is weird how he says to do them 7 times a day, but since it is so quick to do them and you can do them sitting down, you can do it without a major inconvenience and honestly, it has helped!

Couple of comments - my wife has neck pain but not in the spine - her pain is in a muscle to the side. The exercises didn't help her. So I would suggest people with spine issues get this book and people with muscle issues look elsewhere. Also, sometimes the author is confusing in giving complex instructions about when to do exercises (this one before that one and not if you have this pain but always if you have....). But overall you can figure it out. I found out later that the author's method is very well known among physical therapists and used by many. One of the exercises that I do is one that the physical therapist tried to get me to do but it irritated me at the time.

This book seems to be more about the short to mid term treatment of neck pain. I think the root of my problem is posture problems and while this book talks about them, it doesn't get too deep there. I may need to get another book about straightening out my posture more.

So overall I would give this book a 4.8 rating so if you have pain in the cervical spine, go ahead and pay the ten bucks and try it.

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Summary: Miracle Technique
Comment: I had had chronic pain in the upper back of my neck for three years. It progressively got worse radiating out to the back of my head and down my neck and spine into my thoracic area and the muscle of my back and shoulders. I also got frequent headahces in the back of my head, neck and skull. I had tried chiropractic adjustments which provided some temporary limited relief but not for more than a day or two. I tried stretching, massage, neck collars, traction and other gadgets like a real ease head rest. They all provided some level of temporary relief but no lasting benefit.

I started doing the exercise techniques per the book's instructions. The movements seemed a little counterintuitive to me while reading them but I tried the exercises. I felt some immediate improvement like the release of stress in the back of my neck. There was some new soreness in the first days following the program, but the pain was different - more like soreness you might have in muscles following a new workout. After only five days I had at least 50% improvement in my neck. I could not believe how quickly these techniques improved my neck. I would have been 100% satisfied if that were the end of the improvement, but I continue the exercises now every day. I know my neck is not 100% back to what it was when I was twenty, but my neck feels like it is. Now I am fully pain free and have full range of motion. I am also am much more aware of my posture and disciplined about my posture to prevent relapse.

This book is quite short and simple (45 pages total). It explains the objectives, and how the method works, and then gets right to the techniques. Robin McKenzie is a medical genius. I would give him six stars if I could. I almost did not buy the book, but I was desperate and the reviews were all positive. I am so happy I bought this book.

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Summary: McKenzie's method
Comment: Used Treat Your Own Back to recover from two buldging discs a couple of years ago and so I bought this for my friend with neck problems. Dr. M
has a logical, common sense approach to helping our body heal itself.
I avoided surgery and haven't had any further back problems. kt

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