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Product Description From a leading pain management expert, a revolutionary book about ending back pain—the #1 cause of debilitating pain in people under age forty—through treatment of muscles and tendons, rather than through medication or surgeries. If you or someone you love has been suffering with back pain, this book could change your life. Americans spend more and more each year treating neck and back pain—over $86 billion annually—but all too often, the treatments simply don’t help. Why keep taking medicine if it doesn’t work? And why resort to painful, unnecessary surgery or injections if there’s a better remedy? End Back Pain Forever is a revolutionary guide that shows you the many ways that back pain can be produced and the easy-to-follow steps you can take to eliminate it. Norman Marcus, one of the nation’s leading back pain specialists, estimates that more than 75 percent of back pain cases can be cured by treating the muscles rather than through surgery or drugs. Yet too many doctors don’t recognize this, leaving patients struggling for solutions. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Marcus will show you: • Why the current standard for diagnosing and treating back pain is flawed. • Why high-tech imaging tests are not useful in diagnosing most back pain. • Techniques that can protect you from injury. • Twenty-one simple exercises that can end your back pain forever. • How aging and pregnancy affect your back. • And much more. Review “Your back pain can be cured. Read this book. His treatment and prescribed exercises work–I know because he treated and cured me.” —Thomas J.J. Blanck, MD, PhD, Chairman, Dept of Anesthesiology, NYU Langone Medical Center "Although designed for patients, many providers may find the text informative and change their current practices. This volume could be life saving for many patients with persistent back pain." -- Bill McCarberg, MD, Founder, Chronic Pain Program, Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, CA About the Author Dr. Norman J. Marcus is the director of muscle pain research at NYU School of Medicine and a former president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. He has been named one of the “Best Doctors in New York” by Castle Connolly for more than ten years. He lives with his wife Suzy in New York City. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. End Back Pain Forever “Doctor, My Back Is Killing Me!” You feel a twitch in your low back, then a heaviness and a sudden stab of pain. It strikes without warning: when you are crossing the street, stacking the dishwasher, jogging, whacking a golf ball, lifting a baby, swatting a fly, carrying groceries, bending over, getting out of a car, or just turning on a faucet. Now you’re afraid to move. You’re locked in place. You feel a belt of pain pulsing across your back from hip to hip. You wonder, “What’s happening? What did I do to get this?” You feel as though you’re cut in half, as the pain seems to separate you from your legs. “Will the pain go away? Will it stay?” Gingerly, you start to move, but the pain only strikes harder. No, it’s not going away, not at all. And if—this is a big “if”—the pain does ease off in a few days or go away in a couple of weeks, studies show that over time, it is certain to return in close to 50 percent of patients. Back pain can be your personal bully. It can readily become chronic, lasting for months, years, even a lifetime. It may become so intense and disabling that your life can change dramatically for the worse. It can strip you bare financially, isolate you from family and friends, and leave you anxious and depressed. It can banish even the mere thought of sex. The curious thing about pain is that the more you think about it, the worse it becomes. Preoccupied with your pain, you lose interest in hobbies and sports. Your decreased activity may lead to obesity, which, in turn, can increase your chances of developing diabetes and heart disease. You watch in despair as