HOW TO FIX UP A CR0OK BACK
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Crookback (n) lower
back pain, as in 'I've got a crook back'. Shoulder and neck pain is associated with weak and tight calves, hamstrings and buttocks; as the pelvis is tilted back, the neck and shoulders go forward, putting extra strain on the neck and shoulder muscles.
Neck and shoulder pain is also exacerbated by weak and tight
muscles in the shoulder and neck region. Click here to purchase your copy of HOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK. The investment $16.50aus - longer-lasting value than a crunch, rub down, hot wheat bag , junk pharmaceutical and an electric shock.
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Bodywise Studio 3 Trenerry Square Weston ACT 2611
The CrookBack Clinic is a musculo-skeletal health program designed to get your body back into alignment. Do that and the pain will disappear.
Conducted by physical educator, John Miller, the CrookBack Clinic is a must for people with crookbacks, stiff necks and sore shoulders.
The therapy is based on two simple principles.
Your one hour consultation begins with an assessment to determine the likely cause of your dysfunction. It includes measuring how strong and flexible you are.
You’ll be taught some of the key exercises to do at home on a regular and systematic basis to get your body back into alignment.
You’ll receive a copy of the CrookBack Manual containing illustrations of the exercises and a rehab diary.
You may choose to revisit the session at any time.
I recommend you book in for a couple of massage sessions with Massage Therapist, Estuardo Pazmeno. His work is designed to speed up the rehab process.
The consultation fee is $120.
To make your booking call John Miller on (0424) 391 749 or book at Bodywise – 6287 7077.
CrookBack Clinic Email: john@millerhealth.com.au
If you've got a crook back you've come to the right spot. Purchase and download John Miller's ebook for people with crook backs, stiff necks, frozen shoulders and RSI.
The book itself has been produced using the Desktopauthor program which you can find out more about by going to www.desktopauthor.com Regrettably it will only download onto Gates-based machines. Sorry about that folks. I'm a Mac man myself, but it's a Gates of Seattle world - the monopolist in philanthropists clothing! Whilst therapy helps speed up the rehab process, it's a big (and usually expensive) ask expecting your body to get better by having someone do something to you. Sooner or later you're going to have to do something to yourself. Ask yourself this question; 'Do I want to get better? If the answer is 'Yes', then ask yourself the next question 'Am I prepared to do whatever it takes to get better?' If you're fair dinkum you'll start doing the exercises you need to do to get your body back into alignment and eating the foods, 'herbs and spices' that contribute to good joint health. You'll steer clear of the junk foods, particularly foods containing the two white powders (flour and sugar) that contribute to poor health generally and joint health in particular. If you don't have a crook back, HOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK will provide you with the exercise program you need to adopt to make sure you never get one. This book is an investment, not a cost, it's - just $16.50aus. Imagine, for $16.50aus you will gain an ebook which may change your life and end or at least minimize the suffering you may have had to endure up until now. Don't spend a fortune on physio before you try this out!
THE CROOK BACK EPIDEMICThere is an absolute epidemic of musculo-skeletal dysfunction in our community. The number of people with crook backs, stiff necks, frozen shoulders, bung hips, game legs, dicky knees and RSI is legion. The honour roll of people with artificial hips and knees, (replaced in the main with the assistance of a public health subsidy) is growing at an exponential rate. The private and public cost of lack of individual strength, flexibility and postural alignment is horrendous. By purchasing a copy of HOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK you can gain access to information and resources to assist you to look after your musculo-skeletal system. MY BACK'S BETTER; HOW'S YOURS?I've had a crook back myself and over the last few years it's gone from about 10/100 to 97/100, (on a scale where 0 is painful in the extreme and 100 is absolutely fantastic). If you've ever had a crook back where it hurt to sneeze or cough, where you had trouble leaning over the wash basin to brush your teeth you'll know what I mean. However, every crisis presents an opportunity to gain insight into what we need to do to change the situation. My back got better because of the information I gained from reading books, listening to what other people had done to fix themselves up and spending a few days at the Egoscue Clinic in San Diego. In fact, I wouldn't be in anywhere near as good a shape as I'm in now and I wouldn't have written HOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK if it hadn't been for the impact that the Egoscue Clinic had on my rehabilitation. I strongly recommend you buy Pete Egoscue's books
You'll gain more insight into the nature of your dysfunction and what you can do about it from these books that you'll get from a thousand rubdowns, crunches or doses of junk pharmaceuticals. Hippocrates said something to the effect that the physician who's had the disease speaks with much more authority! I'm pleased to pass on to you some of the insight I've gained as my back got better. THE GOOD NEWS - 80-20I work on the Pareto principal. For 80% of people I believe that there is an 80% chance of restoring function back to at least 80% of what it was, providing you do the right exercises, on a regular and systematic basis. Now I don't profess to know ALL of the exercises in creation, (in fact if you know some goodies send me a picture via the email) but if you do the ones included in my book, there is a good chance that your condition will improve - for many people, dramatically. Would you be happy if your back got 80% better than it is now? Of course you would. There is an 80% chance that it will if you buy HOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK and start doing the exercises religiously. That's what I did and my back's 97% pain free. 97% of the time I would never know that I'd every had a crook back.
SEARCH FOR THE CAUSEWhen looking for causes of musculo-skeletal dysfunction, bad luck is regularly tagged as the usual suspect. The real causes, a lack of general fitness, poor posture, a lack of strength and flexibility that takes bones out of alignment, being overweight or poor diet often don't get much of a look in. The diagnostic regimes are expensive and often of doubtful value. For the most part all an X-ray or an MRI does is tell you you've got a crook back, and you already know that - your back hurts! It's probably just as useful to take a look in the mirror to see just how far your body has come out of alignment, keeping in mind that the poor alignment is the likely cause of your dysfunction. A photograph or video clip will provide more information about the cause of the dysfunction than an x-ray. It has a cause and it can be fixed. When bones are out of alignment, ligaments, tendons, muscles and disks will all feel the pinch. The pain is telling you to fix the alignment problem and/or start eating in a way which supports good muscle and bone function. Blame Lack of Physical Activity?Absolutely! The major cause of musculo-skeletal dysfunction is motion starvation. We don't move enough. We are not in good enough physical condition to maintain good function, even in a sit down job. The body that was designed to climb trees, chop wood and draw water can no longer push a pen or tap a keyboard without becoming dysfunctional!
A good general exercise program that includes aerobic fitness, strength and flexibility exercises will be enormous beneficial for most people. Join a fitness centre, get an all round program and get cracking. In a couple of months you'll feel better - and your back will feel better as well. Blame Work?Hardly! It is drawing a long bow to blame your job for your musculo-skeletal dysfunction. If you're not strong and flexible enough to do your job, if you don't keep yourself in good nick, it's hard to blame work! Most of the people I see with sore shoulders, necks and arms are not keeping themselves strong or flexible enough to tap a keyboard or push a pen without becoming dysfunctional. That it should come to this! Blame the office furniture and equipment?Doubtful! Bad workmen have always blamed their tools. Most of the people I see with crook backs already have good office furniture. Blame over-use?On the contrary? Occupational over-use is caused by under-use. You don't do enough of the right strength and flexibility exercises to meet the needs of your job. Blame Your Age?Another myth! It doesn't matter what age you are. (In fact the older you are the fitter you ought to be, you've had longer to train!!!) Blame Your Food?Maybe! It's quite possible that some musculo-skeletal and particularly arthritic complaints are diet related. The nation that started off lean and tough and wiry has ended up fat, weak and miserable, addicted to the high fat, starch, sugar, caffeine and alcohol diet. Steer clear of foods containing the two white powders. Blame Your Weight?Yessiree! Even being a little overweight can alter your balance and tip your body out of alignment. A crook back goes with a fat guts. Blame The Stress Of Life?Sure can! It is well known that when we get anxious muscles tighten up. Tight muscles become sore muscles. They start to pull unevenly on bones. You end up with misalignment, leading eventually to dysfunction and pain. Blame your doctor Maybe. On the one hand there's a lot of very good doctors around. If you've got one, thank your luck stars. On the other hand the majority of them don't have a clue about the causes and treatment of musculo-skeletal dysfunction.
The average mug punter gets a crook back. Not knowing much about it's cause or what will restore poor function to good, they race off to their doctor - as they do for anything that goes wrong with their body, regardless of whether its a medical matter or not. A crook back is not a medical matter, it's a fitness matter.
However, in the junk medical age what they've become good at doing is telling you to lie on your back and lift your knees to your chest and then head off to the chemists with a prescription to mask the pain. The body's own recuperative power will not be stimulated. On the contrary, things are going to get worse.
On the other hand, if you had been taught the exercises that needed to be done to get the body back into better alignment, and you didn't do them, then that would be stupidity, or laziness. Back pain is not a lack of Celebrex, Valium, Voltarin, Vioxx, Mersyndol, Nurofen or heat! If you think that you're going to fix your back up by taking junk pharmaceuticals then you've got another think coming. Don't ask what your doctor/pharmacist/therapist can do for you, ask what you can do for yourself.
It's a big ask
expecting your body to get better by having someone do
something to you; sooner or later you have to do something
to yourself. Most therapies are palliative, you feel better but you're not getting stronger or looser. The one exception may be acupuncture. It works for a lot of people - but you'd be a mug not to also embark on a regular strengthening and stretching program to support the good work of the acupuncturist. Therapy will make your condition feel better for a while. But if your body is not getting stronger it's getting weaker. If it's not getting looser it's getting tighter and sooner or later there is a high likelihood the dysfunction will reappear and the pain will come back to haunt you.
MUSCULO-SKELETAL RISK FACTOR PROFILEBy purchasing a copy of HOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK you'll be able to complete the MUSCULO-SKELETAL RISK FACTOR PROFILE and get a good idea of why you've become dysfunctional and what you need to do to fix yourself up.
The Musculo-skeletal Risk Factor Profile rates your risk based on how you rate in the following parameters: -
● Current musculo-skeletal status ● Age ● fatness ● Abdominal strength ● upper body strength ● extent flexibility ● functional mobility ● shoulder function ● strength training behaviour ● flexibility training behaviour EXERCISESIt's a very big ask expecting to get better without doing some strength and flexibility exercises. Below are just a smidgeon of the exercises I recommend. (I have to keep my powder a bit dry otherwise you won't need to buy the book!)Strength ExercisesI show you which strength exercises to use in the gym and which ones to use at home. There are four exercises that stand head and shoulders above others for keeping the major parts of your body strong and helping to fix up a crook back.
There are a few good ones in the book for the neck as well. I show you which strength exercises to use in a fitness centre, so you can get the most effective workout in the shortest possible time. Don't let fitness centres intimidate you. Just go and do what you have to do - which is an aerobic workout, a strength workout and a flexibility workout. Flexibility ExercisesI show you which flexibility exercises you can do at home or after the aerobic and strength components of your gym workout. Here's a few key ones for starters.
Flexibility refers to the ability to maintain a wide range of movement about the joints of the body. When they are not stretched regularly, muscles and tendons become tighter and the range of movement around the joints decreases. The implications for postural alignment are wide-reaching, because if one muscle is pulling tighter than another, bones can be moved out of alignment. Sooner or later you experience pain in one or more joints. FORMULA 1 REHABILITATIONSpeed up the rehab process with Formula 1 RehabilitationIf you purchase a copy of HOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK I'll show you how you can speed up the rehab process using Formula 1 Rehabilitation.Just as the technology developed in Formula 1 motor sport filters down to ordinary motor cars, so the rehabilitation of musculo-skeletal injuries benefits from the spin off from sports medicine, particularly in dramatically reducing the time for injuries to heal. However, the things that will have the most impact on improving your musculo-skeletal status are the things you do for yourself.
PRINCIPLES OF MUSCULO-SKELETAL DYSFUNCTION
The US Surgeon General hit the nail on the head in 1978 when he said 'You, the individual, can do more for your own health and well-being than any doctor, any hospital, any drug, any exotic advice.' DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR ITWe violate the design sense every minute of every hour of every day. By so doing, the body cannot operate according to design; the functions go into limbo and are never utilized again. This inevitably and inexorably leads to pain.
Pete Egoscue So we see that the lower back is often stuck in the middle of a wide variety of passions, conflicts and psychosomatic needs. It is not surprising, then, to discover that so many people have accumulated a great deal of stress and tension in this region.
Ken Dychtwald The muscles contract as a result of an unending series of impulses from the nervous system; for this reason the muscular pattern of the upright position, facial expression and voice reflect the condition of the nervous system.
Moshe Feldenkrais Because the national diet becomes increasingly deficient and because it is difficult to rid oneself of stresses, particularly unconscious mental ones, arthritis will undoubtedly always be with us.
Adelle Davis Wellness includes both awareness and the willingness to take responsibility for decisions we make in our best interests. It does not necessarily mean the absence of disease but rather taking responsibility for the diseases we decide to have.
John Harrison Unfortunately the pain killers and anti-inflammatories have problems. They temporarily relieve pain, but in the long run they simply cover up the symptoms while the disease progresses further.
Jason Theodosakis It is wrong to treat a painful back as a local condition. Back pain is always accompanied and preceded by general mis-use.
Wilfred Barlow What is the best treatment for arthritis and allied conditions? The simple, logical and practical answer is: elimination of irritant metabolic waste products.
Bernard Aschner The other good news is that you can do most of the rehabilitation yourself. Phase by less painful phase you can steer yourself back out of the maze where you have been stumbling about for so long.
Sarah Keys Behind each improvement that can be attributed to 'technology' there lies a powerful human intentionality.
George Leonard
If you buy a copy of HOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK I'll give you great encouragement to develop a strategy to fix yourself up. You'll be encouraged to answer these questions.
The most important question though is, 'Do I want to get better?' If you do, buy my book and I'll help you get better quicker. The second most important thing to do is create a vision for what you want to feel like and look like. You want to be restored to good musculo-skeletal function, right? Then imagine yourself restored to good function. Start with the end in mind. Thirdly, set goals for what you're going to do to achieve your vision. When do want to be restored by? Next month, next year or next decade? Make a choice. Buy the book. Learn what do and then start doing it. If you want to be in good shape do what people in good shape do to keep themselves that way. If you buy HOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK you'll learn the exercise secrets that thousands of people have put into action to get themselves back into good shape and then stay in good shape. Are you ready for a breakthrough or more of the same? If you keep doing what you've always done you'll continue to get what you've always got. Most people aim at nothing in particular in life and achieve their aim with remarkable accuracy. Set yourself the goal of getting better and getting better quickly. If you are suffering from musculo-skeletal pain, the good news is that for 80% of people, the right amount of the right exercise, coupled with the right diet will restore 80% of the function and leave you relatively pain free. 80% of musculo-skeletal dysfunction is eminently fixable, providing you work at it. Wouldn't you like to be 80% better than you are now? QUESTIONS, QUERIES, COMMENTS, COMPLAINTS, CRITICISMS, COMPLIMENTSI'm a physical educator, so I don't profess to be an expert on everything, or anything! If you want some advice I'll do my best to answer your request. Free to send me an email. If I can't answer your question I'll say so and/or maybe suggest other links you can go to. Any advice I provide comes with the proviso that it may or may not work and on the understanding that you are responsible for the consequences, should you choose to act on the advice you receive. CommentsIf you've come across any information that helped fix your musculo-skeletal dysfunction, and that's not referred to on our website feel or in HOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK, feel free to send me an email and let me know all about it. BooksIf you find a good book that you think I should know about, send me a review and I'll advertise it. If you think all this is nonsense feel free to send me an email. ExercisesHOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK is a work in progress. If you've bought the book and you know of some good exercises that I ought to include in it please send me an email. WebsitesIf you come across any useful websites which other people might find useful, feel free to send me an email. ComplimentsIf you like the site and the info has been of benefit to you, I'd love to hear from you. John Miller ABOUT USFit and Healthy Online is an integrated health management company in Canberra Australia, run by physical educator and master presenter John Miller. Crookback.com.au is the website designed specifically to promote the ebook, How to Fix Up a Crook Back. John Miller is about 61 years of age and about average height and weight. He's about your average level of fitness and can run about 50 laps of the 20m lap run in five minutes. He can fill a good unforgiving minute's worth of situps and pressups and finds great benefit in doing about 20 minutes of strength and flexibility exercises on three days of the week. He's about average in sporting ability, being at the top of those who are hopeless and the bottom of those who are any good. He is a graduate physical educator from Adelaide University who runs corporate health management seminars, specialities being the Seven Habits of Fit and Healthy People, Work-Life Balance and How to Fix Up a Crook Back. You can find out more about these programs by going to www.millerhealth.com.au He used to own a fitness centre, FiT AND HEALTHY in the Canberra suburb of Macquarie. He likes to wake up at about 6.00am most mornings and 3 or 4 times a week gets on the stepper for about 30 minutes. About 7 years ago he hurt his back. It felt like about 10%, (where 100% is perfect and 0% is wretched.) He couldn't sneeze or cough the pain was so bad, but with the exercises he knew at the time it gradually got to about 70% better - but it still hurt to sneeze. To cut a long story short he found out about Pete Egoscue and bought his book Pain Free. This is the best book around on the cause and treatment of musculo-skeletal dysfunction. (You'd be a mug not to get a copy.) He visited the Egoscue Clinic as a paying customer in September 2000 and came away with a better insight as to what he had to do to fix his back up completely. In September and October 2000 he spent about 100 hours half lying and half sitting, slumped in front of the idiot box watching the Sydney Olympic Games and eating chocolate sultanas and his back went from better to worse. In fact about all he got out of the Olympics was a fat guts and a crook back. It went back to about 10/100 - it really hurt. (All the mug taxpayers of Australia got out of the Olympics was a bill for $8B.) Being of under average intelligence it took a while for the penny to drop, but when it did he started doing more strength and flexibility exercises, particularly the ones he had been shown at the Egoscue Clinic in San Diego and which he'd read about in the book Pain Free. In about a month there was a noticeable difference. In about six months, function was well over 90%. Then in about March of 2002 he was shown a couple of extra exercises to loosen the muscles around the hips and lower back and as a result, function is now about 97%, which he thinks is pretty good. Strange as it may seem, people kept coming up to him and showing him more exercises that they'd found useful. he added them to his repertoire. A couple of years ago, his mother Doreen asked him to send her some exercises which she could do to fix up her back. That's when he wrote the book, HOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK and the book is dedicated to her. If you want to fix up your crook back, neck and shoulders grab yourself a copy of HOW TO FIX UP A CROOK BACK. It'll be the best $16.50aus you've ever invested in your own health. It will save you a poultice in paying for therapists and pharmacists. Send us an email and let us know what you want.
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