Ronald D. Siegel Michael Urdang Douglas R. Johnson
On occasion nearly everyone experiences short-term back pain from sore or strained muscles. But for many who come to treat their back gingerly because they fear further -injury, - a cycle of worry and inactivity results; this aggravates existing muscle tightness and leads them to think of themselves as having a -bad back.- Even worse is the understandable but usually counterproductive assumption that back pain is caused by -abnormalities--bulging disks, a damaged spine, and so on. However, these abnormalities are frequently found in those who have absolutely no pain whatsoever. In reality,...
On occasion nearly everyone experiences short-term back pain from sore or strained muscles. But for many who come to treat their back gingerly because...