I disliked this book from chapter one. As someone that worked in Physical Therapy for years and someone that has suffered from back pain all my life due to a congenital issue, I was curious to read it when it showed up in my little free library.

I should have known it was full of BS when I read the first chapter and it said that ankylosing spondylosis was only something that affected men. My grandmother had that. Over 20 years ago, they thought that was one of my issues but I was lucky that it wasn't. I have known other women to have it. He says therapies don't work that I have seen work. I was able to put off back surgery for over 20 years with some of the modalities that he says don't work. I finally had to have back surgery last year but my spine will never be "fixed" due to so many things wrong with it. I am in much better shape than I was. I have an orthopedic doc do the surgery and am very happy with the results.

The only thing really good in this book are the exercises at the end and the part about good posture. They are very good for back pain. Taking care of your core and having correct posture are the most important things to help prevent back pain and to alleviate it. There are many other books out there that I am sure are better than this book. ( )