Yoga and Pilates Based Program to End Low Back Pain

Yoga and pilates... From a noted pioneer in sports medicine comes a breakthrough regimen for stopping back pain once and for all, without surgery... Eighty-percent of Americans suffer some form of low-back pain, usually due to a herniated disk, but long-term relief is rarely achieved... As a physician specializing in treating athletes, Dr. Vijay Vad has spent years researching how to cure back pain using yoga Pilates.

Profiled in The Wall Street Journal, his program requires just fifteen minutes a day for eight weeks to restore flexibility and prevent future injuries... Offering a proven alternative to invasive surgery, Dr. Vad's Back Rx provides the best of mind/body medicine by giving readers three step-by-step exercise series, demonstrated in 130 precise photographs, for implementing his popular program at home... Even readers with severely limited mobility will rejoice in Dr. Vad's gentle introductory workout.

Progressing through his self-paced program, they will discover a new range of exercises, breathing techniques, and tips for self-massage... For those who want to go even further and use this program for more than the treatment of a single injury, an advanced workout is included that puts readers on the road to peak performance... The perfect combination of modern medicine, Pilates innovations, and ancient yoga postures, Back Rx builds important new fundamentals for lifelong freedom from pain.

Customer Review: A Good Whipping...

This is an excellent book for dealing with this common problem afflicting so many people but it doesn't explain why Pilate ordered Jesus to be whipped... That is definitely not the way to relieve back pain!

Customer Review: Thoughtfulm, safe process, but does it work????

I felt that Dr. Vad's approach was safe and logical... He has you perform easy basic exercises for some time, and then graduate to more strenuous exercises... I must say, though, as someone is in pretty fair physical condition to begin with, I felt the exercises were too basic, and not at all challenging.

There didn't seem to be an abundance of info on treatments or back pain causes either... I guess though, the real proof is, "Did it work? Did following the program letter for letter improve my back pain?" And, in my case, which of course is very individual, after following the program to the "T" for 8 weeks, it really did nothing me... Decent book, but I'm still looking for the magic bullet.
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