Fixing You: Back Pain 2nd edition: Self-Treatment for Back Pain, Sciatica, Bulging and Herniated Discs, Stenosis, Degenerative Discs, and other Diagnoses.

The Back Pain book helped me tremendously. My lower back pain is gone, I can walk up stairs, sleep and sit with little pain. What I found different about this book from others:1) specific explanations of movement patterns that cause major back dysfunctions and pain. As much as we don't want to admit it and work on it, how we move affects muscles and bones and affects pain. Rick's explanations are very clear. I've read many articles/books that are either too dense and I don't understand it or say do a certain exercise without explaining what's being worked on. Rick explains things in a way I can understand and when I do the exercises I know what I'm working on. My friends are amazed at my knowledge of muscles and movement now.2) the best illustrations and explanations of how muscles work and are affecting the back pain that I have seen.3) specific exercises for specific back movement issues. Very clear exercises that also say what muscles are being worked and problems resolved. You can also get videos of the exercises that are great.4) suggestions on how to sit, stand, walk, climb stairs. This helped me tremendously because as much as I don't want to work on my everyday movements, they are contributing if not majorly causing my problems.Even if you don't want to do the exercises (although they will help you), this book will give you an understanding of what's going on with your back that you may not have seen elsewhere. I refer to it again and again. I've given the book to friends and will continue to refer people to Rick.

I had two issues going on at the same time: 1. Bulging disc at L4 and L5 and a narrowing artery in my left leg, which stopped me from walking more than a few hundred feet. I had an Angioplasty which opened up the artery and now I could address the back pain.This exercises in this book are doing what an Orthopedic Surgeon, Neurosurgeon and Cortisone shots could not do and that is relieve my back pain. I have been doing the exercises recommended in Chapter 4, Extension Problems every morning for the past 4 days and I could not believe these simple exercises (Trapezius Release, Back Arch series, Tummy Arching, could relieve the back pain from a bulging disc but they did. I have been using my cell phone to watch the videos on his web site while I am on the floor (cushioned pad) learning the exercises and it has really helped in learning how to position your body so that you feel the muscle contractions Rick is instructing you to feel. I will be adding additional exercises as I master the technique for each one. Thank you Rick Olderman for your ability to transfer your knowledge to others. I am so grateful.

Fascinating structural explanation by the P.T author about why back pain may be occurring and not too difficult exercises to fix things. 4 stars given because I thought the exercises should have been organized differently...I would have grouped them according to standing and floor activities. Getting up and down constantly makes no sense. Also, this book would work better if it had a video demonstrating the exercises accompanying it.

This book seems to be intended for people with soft tissue-type problems. For those with multiple permanent skeletal issues like loss of cartilage, bone spurs and stenosis, you may get minimal immediate relief while doing the exercises, but the relief ends when the exercise ends. That said, there are some good suggestions for sleep positions, etc. Just don't expect your pain to diminish considerably for any extended period of time with the exercises/movements in this book.

This author is a fantastic teacher of many body parts and this back book is 5x the size of his other and is like a Bible for me!

I have the first edition too. Rick has added more exercise illustrations and links to helpful videos in this new edition. If you want to WHY your back hurts - this is the only book that will tell you not only how to fix the pain, but why it hurts. Doesn't matter if it's an old injury, or you've already had back surgery, or some other excuse, Rick will help you to feel better. He saved me from being an invalid because of pain when physiastrists, pts, and doctors could not help at all. (I did not want surgery because, if you do the research you will find, it doesn't always help the pain, doesn't deal with the causes of the pain, and sometimes makes the pain worse.)Buy this book, do what it says, you will be thankful the rest of your life for Rick Olderman.If your back hurts - it's the only book you need.

The book was almost new with virtually no writing in it - better even than advertised.

Technical is good for Technicians but a little too advanced for an average mind! I was able to understand it but had to take a little more time with it than I had expected when I ordered it!