Do you keep going back to your therapist for help every few weeks or months when your back flares up again?
Here's the main problem: the best repair work in the world won't stop you mistreating your back again the moment you walk out the doctor's door.
This website helps you stay out of trouble with your back, and to heal more quickly.
I hope you find many things here to help you. Please let me know how you get on.
What's New on Back Pain Self Help
Latest changes and additions to the back-pain-self-help.com website.
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Self Help Exercises
The gentle self help exercises on this website are to help you understand your back better. Here's how to use them.
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"All I Did Was Cough!"
"All I Did Was Cough!" Sometimes a simple cough or a sneeze is all it takes to start a big back problem.
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Stop Whingeing?
When you get your first twinge of back pain, should you just "stop whingeing and get on with it?"
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Creeping Backache
Your back never used to ache picking up a box of books. If pain is gradually increasing, it may be best to act now.
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Good Posture and Back Pain
Good posture is about much more than 'stand up straight and don't slouch!' Good posture makes moving a joy. If moving is a joy, you'll move more. Try the exercises or get some professional help with your posture.
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Back Exercise: Lying on the Floor
Lying down on the floor every day is a simple and effective back exercise. It is a way to take weight off your spine for a while and let it get back to its natural springiness
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Back Exercise: Walking
Walking as a Back Exercise. Simply walking can be an excellent tool for people with back pain. Here are some reasons, and ways to make your walking frequent and fun!
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Middle Back Pain
Middle Back Pain: The middle back is a weight-bearer and a wonderfully flexible part of the spine as well. It is often misused while lifting weights
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Back Pain in Pregnancy and Birth
Pregnant women's bones soften and their ligaments loosen during pregnancy. It's a preparation for birth. It's also a time when many women experience back pain.
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Lower Back Pain
Exercises and Other Resources for Lower Back Pain
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Deep Self Help: The Alexander Technique
Deep Self Help: Back Self Help is a really worthwhile, life-long project, but takes time to learn to do well. You can speed up and deepen your Self Help with the Alexander Technique.
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Contact Nick Mellor
Contact details for Nick Mellor, author of back-pain-self-help.com
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What is Osteopathy?
A brief description of Osteopathy, with two experiences of Osteopathic treatment for back pain.
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Home Birth and Back Pain
Home Birth gives you choices you don't have in a hospital. Some of these choices can reduce the possibility of back pain and injury during labour and birth.
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My Back Pain Story
Two lower-back accidents that led to repetitive strain injury. Treatment with physiotherapy and osteopathy, then learning self-help withe the Alexander Technique
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