The 7-Minute Back Pain Solution: 7 Simple Exercises to Heal Your Back Without Drugs or Surgery in Just Minutes a Day

Easy and helpful
Frustrated with too many visits to the chiropractor, I ordered this book and found the answer to most of my back problems. Tight hamstring muscles were pulling my pelvis out of alignment and affecting my lower back. The simple stretching routine recommended in this book has done wonders in addressing that problem. The back strengthening exercises recommended in the later chapters are similar to routines that have been recommended to me before and which I know have been helpful. The missing component for me had been the regular stretching (every morning and sometimes at night if I need it) and this book provides an easy routine that makes a big difference.If you’ve suffered from back pain, this book is a very reasonable low-cost investment that could make a big difference for you.

Good, Practical Tricks for Minimizing Pain
This book was a delightful surprise. I first borrowed a half-dozen books on back pain from the library; this was the one book out of the collection that was so useful I then bought it for home reference. The one reason why I give this book four rather than five stars is because I believe the book would have been stronger if Girasole and Hartman had gone deeper into the mechanics of the various different causes of back pain, including specifying whether any of the exercises might have risks for one kind of injury rather than another. That said, the proof is in the pudding. I’ve begun doing their recommended stretches whenever my back tightens up and experience immediate and noticeable pain relief.Girasole and Hartman, an Orthopaedic spine surgeon a personal trainer, outline two key sets of moves you can do to reduce immediate pain and, over the longer term, eliminate most back pain altogether. The first set of moves, stretches, relax spasming muscles. The second routine strengthens core muscles over the longer term to prevent future spasms. Graduates of physical therapy programs, yoga practitioners, and dancers will recognize many of the moves. Where the authors provide new value is by explaining the connections between muscle tightness and pain and by providing practical variations of the stretches for different situations.Chapters address moves you can make to reduce pain at work, in a car or airplane seat, and even in bed with your partner. Exercises are accompanied by illustrations and most come with variations to make moves more or less challenging. There also are detailed instructions of how to handle a back seizure. A final appendix provides an overly brief overview of surgical options and how to choose an orthopedic surgeon.In short, this book does one thing very well: outlining immediate practical physical moves you can do to reduce lower back pain. It is not the book to turn to if you want a better understanding of the different structural factors that might cause the pain or of surgical options, but it is an excellent resource for day-to-day moves for improving your quality of life.

Longer than 7 minutes
This book is okay – it has some basic information and good advice, but I was looking for something without bias and you could do in a 7 minutes.The book title say it takes 7 minutes, but really it is a little longer if you follow the instructions that tell you to do it more than once with each leg. They also recommend a 5-10 warm up before you do the stretches and they also recommend different core exercises that should be done daily. That adds up to more than 7 minutes. It’s not that I don’t think it isn’t worth it, it’s just not 7 minutes.I don’t particularly like the way it is written. The author talks about how he knows so much about the back and how everyone else knows so little. Its a bit condescending and annoying. Just stick with the facts, please.

Amazing book for general practitioner

Information here was just general, type of exercises were not exceptional