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Lower back pain.

Filed in Back, April 7, 2009, 10:14 am ,

Lower back pain affects nearly all of us at some stage of our active adult life. It is therefore one of the most common health problems afflicting mankind. It can follow an event or can just accompany aging (and I’m not talking about old age here: many people first encounter recurring or chronic back pain [...]

Case history: engineering her own recovery

Filed in Case history, February 4, 2009, 11:54 pm ,

Helen is a civil engineer, age 52, and lives in upstate New York. She had lower back pain for eight years. The pain was worse when she sat or bent over. She got some relief simply by using a lumbar roll, by walking, and by standing.