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Case history: journal
Filed in Case history, May 4, 2009, 3:25 pmHerb, a New York journalist, was also a longdistance runner. From ages 28 to 34, he completed seven marathons; his only pain was from sore legs and a chafed toe. But during a vacation when he was 44, he ran one rigorous but short (1.7-mile) race in California’s Sierra Nevada.
Case history: hollywood barbara
Filed in Case history, May 1, 2009, 1:44 pmBarbara is a Hollywood entertainment executive specializing in the production of documentaries. She works long hours at her desk and also drives to many meetings, screenings, and other events. At age 52, after many years of the same habits, she developed lower back pain that sometimes was sharp. She adapted her chair at work by [...]
Back exercise 5
Filed in Exercises, April 23, 2009, 11:21 amFlexion in Lying
Although some who have heard of the McKenzie Method believe it involves extension and nothing but extension, this is not the case. I have found that for many patients, certain flexion exercises can also be helpful. But especially with the flexion exercises, timing is the key to success.
Case history: numbness and tingling
Filed in Case history, April 18, 2009, 11:27 amRose, 76, from Florida, is a retiree whose physician had diagnosed her with lumbar radiculitis (inflammation of a lumbar nerve root). For two months, she’d had lower back pain as well as numbness and tingling in the right leg and foot. Her symptoms came and went but were most often provoked by sitting. Her pain [...]
Case history: nursing herself back to health
Filed in Case history, April 11, 2009, 10:35 amGreta, a 41-year-old nurse, works on a surgical floor at a hospital in Indiana. Her doctor diagnosed her with lumbar radiculitis, meaning she had inflammation of a lumbar nerve root. She had lower back pain as well as leg pain going all the way to her heel. Greta had these symptoms for six months and [...]
Panic pages for the back
Filed in Back, April 5, 2009, 11:48 amIn case of a sudden onset of acute back pain, observe the following precautions. Then, if you can use this book, proceed with the instructions.
PRECAUTIONS
If you have unusual complications, do not use this book or this chapter until you have consulted your doctor, physical therapist, or chiropractor.
Neck exercise 1
Filed in Exercises, March 29, 2009, 10:10 amHead Retraction in Sitting
This is the first McKenzie exercise for the neck. Again, if you are a back patient, you will find the McKenzie exercises for the back in Chapter 5.
Head retraction means pulling the head backward.
Sit on a chair or stool, look straight ahead, and allow yourself to relax completely.
Back exercise 5
Filed in Exercises, March 5, 2009, 11:16 pmAlthough some who have heard of the McKenzie Method believe it involves extension and nothing but extension, this is not the case. I have found that for many patients, certain flexion exercises can also be helpful. But especially with the flexion exercises, timing is the key to success. (See later in this chapter; also see [...]
Back exercise 1
Filed in Exercises, March 1, 2009, 6:41 pmThis is the first McKenzie exercise for the lower back. Again, if you are a neck patient, you will find the McKenzie exercises for the neck.
An exercise session is a series of repetitions of one or more exercises. Until you can do one or more of the other McKenzie exercises without acute pain, each time [...]
Research supports the method
Filed in Exercises, February 28, 2009, 5:55 pmThere are decades of clinical experience and research behind these exercises: how to do them, in what order to do them, how often to do them.
Research findings presented in Adelaide, Australia, in April 2000 are as important as any research ever done on the McKenzie Method. This research was presented to the International Society for [...]
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