The complete trilogy of caring for your back and all your other joints. The book kit contains the 2nd Edition Back Sufferers' Bible, 2nd Edition The Body In Action and The Back In Action in it's 5th Edition. 

NEW RELEASE - Available for sale from 3rd May 2010.

This little book is designed to be a quick and easy guide to the treatment of back pain. It will help you take control of your back problem and restore you to your former life by providing a concise, easy-to-follow exercise program, and packed with helpful hints, techniques and advice.

Authors: Sarah Key & Vicky Roberts

In a straightforward question-and-answer format, this book advises on all aspects of back pain and the treatments available. It aims to explain all the commonly asked queries in simple laymen's language, complete with clear single-line drawings to illustrate and make understanding this complex subject easier. This is a simpler book than Sarah's other two and the best choice for people who don't want to delve into complex anatomy and physiology. 

'Back in Action' gives advice in broad-ranging areas:  what  ideal posture is, whether you need an operation, what constitutes a good chair, pain management and medication, the uses of bed rest, the role of anxiety, the good and the bad exercises. It responds to all the commonly asked questions: 'Do I have arthritis' or 'Why does it hurt to sit?', 'Have I slipped a disc?', 'Should I wear a lumbar corset?'   'What is spinal mobilisation and what is manipulation?'

This book is considered the 'market leader' in both the UK and Australia.  It breaks new ground in proposing a working hypothesis for how a spinal segment breaks down. In explaining how impaired intervertebral disc nutrition hampers the shock absorption of a spinal segment and expedites breakdown, it also lays out the role of 'therapy' to reverse this process.

'The Back Sufferers' Bible' describes the five distinct stages of segmental breakdown from the very commonplace, though more easily reversible 'stiff spinal segment' [Stage 1] to the more intractable end-condition of 'instability' [Stage 5]. Depending on various 'other factors' such as genetic inheritance, fitness levels, occupation and even mental attitude, dysfunction of the controlling abdominal and spinal muscles may cause the simple problem to evolve in a linear progression through more complex ones as the problem intensifies. En route, the segment may experience developing forms of spinal pathology such as 'facet joint arthropathy' [Stage 2] as the disc loses height, 'acute facet locking' [Stage 3] as the disc loses pressure and intrinsic muscle control, 'disc prolapse' [Stage4] as the disc transfers load from the nucleus to the disc wall, and eventually 'instability' as degeneration of both the disc and facet joints render the segment less stable. 

The job of deciding which condition you have is made easier by careful descriptions of the signs and symptoms of each. The exercise guide for the acute, sub-acute and chronic phase of each disorder is contained at the end of each of the 'Five Stages'. This section highlights the role of the sufferer in the therapeutic program, making it clear that the process is long term and the regimen must be a daily ritual.

Would you like to:
- Eliminate aches and pains
- Slow down the ageing process
- Restore suppleness and agility?

If so, this book holds the answers. It is the ultimate action kit to help you achieve a better body and healthier life.