This excerpt from my book End Back Pain Forever, is about my mentor and friend, Dr. Hans Kraus. He changed the way I viewed pain and the treatment of pain, and enhanced my life and ultimately my patients’ lives for the better. Chapter 2 You Are Not Alone: The Back Pain Epidemic (Part 4) […]
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This excerpt from my book End Back Pain Forever, provides a small summary of my early involvement in pain medicine. Chapter 2 You Are Not Alone: The Back Pain Epidemic (Part 3) In 1975, I became a staff physician in the Montefiore Department of Neurology’s Headache Unit, founded by Dr. Arnold Friedman. Two years
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I wrote End Back Pain Forever to open up a discussion on back pain and provide insights on effective treatments. I have posted the first two chapters of the book on my blog. Chapter 2 You Are Not Alone: The Back Pain Epidemic (Part 2) As a physician specializing in pain medicine, I know how
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Chapter 2 of End Back Pain Forever delves into the ever-increasing problem of the back pain epidemic. Please review this blog for Chapters 1 and 2 from my book. Chapter 2 You Are Not Alone: The Back Pain Epidemic If you suffer from back pain, you are not alone. The widespread failure by doctors to
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A large study of army recruits demonstrated the protective effect of exercise on the development of knee pain. Male and female recruits who performed 4 stretching and 4 strengthening exercises for 7 weeks, were 75% less likely to develop anterior knee pain.
A golfing patient I treated originally came to me with low back pain and later with shoulder pain and neck pain- all preventing his inner champion from blossoming. Like so many golfers he had come to accept the suffering as part of the game. He was amazed to find that he could get rid of the
