Treat Your Own Back
by Robin A. McKenzie, Robin McKenzie · first published 1985
90% recommend10% neutral
Why HN recommends it
Practical self-treatment guide for low back pain, covering exercises and postures for flexion-type pain. Suited to people recovering from back injury or managing it at home.
Summarised by Claude from recommending comments
Need to see it first. It is supposed to be hlepful for people with bad backs.
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I can warmly recommend this book for treating back pain and posture problems: [1]. [1] Robin A. McKenzie, "Treat Your Own Back".
on “Ask HN: How is your standing desk working for you?” ↗I recommend studying the short book "Treat Your Own Back" by Robin McKenzie and also finding a physical therapist familiar with his techniques. I was in similar distress and it was fairly quickly resolved by these techniques and I have also observed these…
on “Ask HN: Random upper back pain is ruining my life. At wits end. Anyone else?” ↗"Treat Your Own Back" by Robin McKenzie was recommended to me by a physiotherapist and my grandfather. General advice to consult your own GP or physiotherapist applies. http://www.amazon.com/Treat-Your-Back-Robin-McKenzie/dp/0958...
on “Ask HN: How do you prevent slouching at your desk? ” ↗Many will do McKenzie Method work ($10-15 book on Amazon, Treat Your Own Back) for lumbar pain in flexion. It is very specifically good for that and that alone, which is the most common form of low back pain. I found a lot of relief using the tools in the book (yoga-type postures)…
on “The $100B per year back pain industry is mostly a hoax” ↗…Back pain in particular is an area of open dispute. Many people have many theories, all of them very hard to test. When I was dealing with back pain, a spine-center doctor recommended a book called "Treat Your Own Back" [1]. It was hugely helpful to me. And in it, the doctor explains that he hit upon his method because a patient came in, used a piece of equipment that was set up totally the wrong way, and said, "Gosh,…
on “Online activists are silencing us, scientists say” ↗…https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bcbuhePZZj0&t=459s He also recommended doing the cat-cow from yoga, and there's a set of exercises referred to as the McGill big 3. I've seen some positive references to the McKenzie method book, Treat Your Own Back. I haven't tried it specifically, but had good luck with their equivalent book for neck treatment.
on “The Most Important Coding Habits” ↗…exercise to relieve low back pain involve bending backwards, such as the Cobra pose in Yoga https://www.dummies.com/health/exercise/yoga/how-to-do-the-c... See also https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/treat-your-own-back-robin-a... Cobra and the exercises from that book are easy to do at home but I like the bioenergetic arch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=225tAQzCVhs because it is standing and you can do it anywhere,…
on “Deep neck flexor exercises – Back and neck” ↗…different one did pain go away. Have you read up and gotten a good understanding of your injuries? I was better able to understand and manage some injuries when I read "Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff" and "Treat Your Own Back". How carefully do you track your exercise? I tracked my exercise for a year and discovered that I was 3x more likely to be injured after any given workout if I had done X minutes of lower body exercise…
on “Ask HN: How can I deal with chronic ligament and tendon injuries?” ↗There are about 5 key stretching exercises for your back that you should consider. See the book "Treat your own back" When I injured my back 20 years ago I found them quite helpful in recuperating.
on “Ask HN: Lower back exercise” ↗In “Treat Your Own Back” (https://www.amazon.com/Treat-Your-Back-Robin-McKenzie/dp/098...), the author—a physiotherapist—accidentally leaves a back pain patient face down on an examination table with their back slightly hyperextended…
on “Ask HN: Has anyone fixed their own bruxism?” ↗