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Click the links below to read excerpts from Rescue Your Back.

Download PDF The System Limitations Approach To Pain [48.5 KB]
Download PDF Customizing This Book To Your Needs
Red, Yellow, Green		 [31.6 KB]
Download PDF Back Pain And Basic Human Mechanics
What Is Pain?		 [35.6 KB]

People move too much from their back during the activities that cause the pain. Back pain is often the result of limitations in flexibility, strength, and stability throughout the body. Those limitations force the back to do repetitive activity it was not designed to do, causing pain and degenerative problems in the back.

What has been missing is that back pain is often the result of very basic limitations throughout the body that place excess force on the back during the activities that increase the pain.

For the person who moves too much from their back, the problem is basic, the solution is not simple.

If the solution was simple, (for example, traditional stretching and strengthening was the solution) then back pain would not be the epidemic problem it is today. If the solution was to focus attention primarily on the back then back pain would not be the challenging epidemic it is today as enormous amounts of research and resources have focused on the back and the result is knowing the cause of back pain only 15 percent of the time.

The solution for many people can be found by determining if they have limitations in their body that are consistent with their pain. Examples of consistent findings between back pain and limitations are:

  • Your pain increases when walking. The physical therapist finds that you have limitations in the mechanics needed for walking.
  • Your pain increases when walking, standing and sitting. The physical therapist finds that you have limitations in the mechanics needed for all of those activities.

To pursue this you need two things, 1) Rescue Your Back to guide you and 2) a Physical Therapist to work with you.

Details matter. The book Rescue Your Back will guide you through the process as it:

  • Explains the forces on the back in more depth and with illustrations.
  • Describes how to customize the book to your needs depending on the severity of your pain, whether you have: constant severe pain, minimal pain occurring only with heavy activity, or pain somewhere in-between.
  • Outlines the evaluation to ask a Physical Therapist to do for you. (In the evaluation you describe your pain in detailed and measurable terms. The Physical Therapists evaluates how your body functions in detailed and measurable terms. The physical therapist then compares the description or your pain to the objective findings and determines if the findings are consistent with your back pain.)
  • Provides questions to help you describe your pain in detailed and measurable terms.
  • Offers instruction on how to protect your back during daily activities. This is written in the book and on the DVD that comes with the book.
  • Makes recommendations on how to develop a Quick Relief Strategy for you to be able to decrease your pain on your own.
  • Offers instruction of exercises that are helpful when dealing with back pain. The exercise instruction is both written in the book and demonstrated on the DVD that comes with the book.

Rescue Your Back includes written instructions and a DVD for you and your physical therapist to have patient education material readily available for you.

For many reasons you need to work with a physical therapist:

  • Back pain significantly impacts life and it usually gets progressively worse. You would not treat your cancer or heart disease by yourself. You should not treat your back pain by yourself either.
  • Your pain is unique to you, your limitations are unique to you and what you ask of your body is unique to you. You need professional assistance to learn what is happening to your body and to develop an appropriate and effective program.
  • There can be problems contributing to your back pain that are not mechanical problems. Working with a physical therapist might help you to recognize that more readily.
  • There will be ups and downs as you improve your mechanics, having an educated eye help you through the challenging times to make the appropriate adjustments to ultimately be successful.
  • Extremely important is if you have residual pain to deal with then it will help you to have had a professional that followed you along the way helping to track the nature of your pain and response to activities.

    • The goal of Rescue Your Back is to get this important information to those who desperately need to start to decrease the force on their back NOW!

    Your feedback is important. Please share your experience. mahongroup@aol.com

    What patients are saying about this approach:

    “I got my life back...I am always stretching...it is my umbilical cord to a quality of life that I wasn't sure I would ever have again. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”
    – Pat, Tournament Tennis Player
    “I am pleased and amazed with the results...previous treatment only got me through a crisis, there were no long term results and long term chronic pain has been my real problem.”
    – Stephen, Educator/Administrator
    “When you understand why you hurt, you have the ability to make changes to control your pain.”
    – Laura, RN/Attorney
    “I now wonder if I may have avoided the herniations and surgery if I had this approach to Physical Therapy first.”
    – Andrea, HR Director

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    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    Cathy MahonCathy Mahon, PT, MS received a Master of Science Degree in Physical Therapy from Boston University in 1986 and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland in 1983.

    Cathy has been practicing physical therapy for 26 years, during which time she has acquired an expertise in orthopedics in the area of pain and dysfunction of the spine and extremities. At this time Cathy continues to operate a private practice in Annapolis, Maryland, that focuses on back pain.