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JUST REVISED AND UPDATED Low Back Pain: Healing your aching back A Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School Dear Kelley, Back pain is one of the most common non-life-threatening painful conditions, affecting four in five Americans at some point in their lives. Chances are you're one of them. Those who suffer from back pain have to be wary of return bouts. But the good news is that back pain need not govern how you live your life. Because back pain affects the lives of so many people, the experts at Harvard Medical School have updated and revised their best-selling report Low Back Pain: Healing your aching back . Thanks to the pioneering work of back pain researchers, treatment for back pain has undergone a sea of changes since the 1990s. Doctors better appreciate the role of exercise in treating back problems. They also understand which conditions can be helped by surgery, and which patients are good surgical candidates. Today there are more minimally invasive procedures that can have people back on their feet and getting on with their lives in record time. This report describes the different types of back problems and the tailored treatments that are most likely to help specific conditions. In this 48-page report, you'll learn: • Who develops back problems • The anatomy of your back • Why your back hurts • Diagnosing your back pain • Assessing your treatment options, including medications and surgery • The role of exercise in relieving back pain • Guidelines for an effective recovery from back pain The report also includes a Special Bonus Section: Healing your back, that provides self-help strategies and complementary therapies that can relieve back pain and heal your back. Here's more good news for back pain sufferers: One-third of people with low back pain can be much improved in as little as one week after the start of their symptoms, and two-thirds will experience improvement within seven weeks. But it's important for you to know what you and your doctor can do to resolve your back problems, ease your discomfort, and speed your recovery. Our report Low Back Pain: Healing your aching back will show you how. Give your back the tender loving care it deserves. Order your copy of the newly revised Low Back Pain report and save $8.00 off the cover price (and shipping is FREE). To your good health, Nancy Ferrari Managing Editor Harvard Health Publications

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