About this ebook
Why aren’t the fixes we buy working?
What are the 10 things researchers want us to know about our backs?
What are the best exercises or activities for back pain?
The answer to these questions lies not within medication, repeat ‘treatments’ or surgery. It lies deeply rooted within our lifestyle and behaviour – in the way we behave as an animal.
Movement is medicine – it is the missing link – the active ingredient in treating our back pain – whether highly-trained elite athletes, sedentary office workers or manual labourers.
Find your inner ape. Learn how to treat your back pain yourself by taking a more simplistic, animal-minded approach to your pain.
Understand that you are your own best therapy.
Learn how to tailor your lifestyle. Use movement and mindfulness as a way back to enjoying a healthier, happier, more fulfilled and self-empowered life.
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The second edition of this highly acclaimed and popular book is a comprehensive 'how-to' for all back pain sufferers. It is for those who are distressed and lost amongst the confusing plethora of 'treatment' options in the modern marketplace.
The aim is to clear a pathway through the tangled jungle of fast-fix claims and snake oil remedies. To help you manage your back pain as simply and quickly as possible. To answer the question: ‘Where is my back pain coming from and what can I do to fix it myself?’ To show you how to become the central protagonist in the story of your own recovery.
We’ve tried to lay out this book as simply as possible, with as many infographics as we can, so you can pick it up at any point, have a quick glance and learn something useful. We repeat and re-emphasize important points. But the central aim is this: to get you feeling and functioning well, to give you the knowledge and understanding, to enable and empower you to manage your back pain yourself. The fact is, you are your own best treatment. Without doubt, the best practitioner to fix your back pain is you.
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In this book, Antony Bush has provided an exceptional resource for people with back pain. No quick fix exists, but much can be done by looking at our lifestyle - how we function and move. The Back Fix provides a great tool for teaching people how to self-manage their back pain, whether acute or chronic. Antony and his team deserve our congratulations and thanks for an educational and enjoyable read.
Kris Dalzell - Spinal Orthopedic Surgeon
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The second edition contains updated and expanded sections covering:
· The 10 Back Facts We All Should Know.
· Bad Scans Don't Mean Bad Pain.
· What's the Real Cause of My Back Pain?
· What's the Best Treatment?
· Common Myths & Misconceptions
· That Little Thing Called Lifestyle
· Learning to be more Animalistic
· The Secret to a Happy Spine
· The ‘Big Six’ Back Exercises
· Wanderlust - The Joy of Movement
· The Importance of Mood & Thought Processes
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About the author
Antony is a functional movement and strength and conditioning expert with 30 years’ experience in spinal pain and musculoskeletal sports injuries. He has treated Olympic gold medallists and a wide variety of elite international athletes, including members of New Zealand’s prestigious national All Blacks rugby team. He has been the NZ Winter Olympic Team physiotherapist and has spent 6 years at a sports medicine clinic at the Sydney Academy of Sport working with triathlon, athletics and ball sports athletes alongside the national Australian Wallabies, Sevens and Diamonds team physiotherapists. He has post-graduate diplomas in Exercise Physiology, Manipulative Physiotherapy, and an MBA. A keen multisporter, writer and cancer survivor, Antony hails from a family of three physiotherapists.
Antony is a keen recreational mountain biker, climber, runner, skier, snowboarder and adventure-sport enthusiast. He is a passionate advocate for movement and dedicates his time improving the life of others.
