If you've got a crook back you've come to the right spot.

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, your participation in the CrookBack Clinic will provide you with the exercise program you need to adopt to make sure you never get one.

THE CROOK BACK EPIDEMIC

There 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 signing up for the CrookBack Clinic you will 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 established the CrookBack Clinic 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

• Pain free

• The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion

• Pain free at Your PC

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 - 80-20

I 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 start doing the exercises you will learn in the CrookBack Clinic 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.

WHAT'S HAPPENED

If you're suffering from lower back pain, there's a good chance that this is what's happened.

SEARCH FOR THE CAUSE

When 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.
Find the cause and you'll be halfway along the track to fixing your dysfunction. In In the CrookBack Clinic we'll help you find the cause of your dysfunction. Once you've found the cause you can work out what you need to do to fix it up.

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 sending you off 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.

DO SOMETHING TO YOURSELF

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 good therapies, but don't expect a sustainable recovery without doing 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 PROFILE

By taking part in the CrookBack Clinic 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

●   Body composition

●   leg strength

●   abdominal strength

●   upper body strength

●   extent flexibility

●   functional mobility

●   shoulder function

●   strength training behaviour

●   flexibility training behaviour

EXERCISES

It's a very big ask expecting to get better without doing some strength and flexibility exercises. In the CrookBack Clinic we show you the exercises you need to do to get your body back into alignment.

We treat the body as an ecosystem. What this means is that if something goes wrong with one part it may affect another pare, That's why tight calf, hamstring and buttock muscles are frequently the principal cause of lower back and neck pain.

Of course, the best flexibility classes are run by yoga teachers.

Strength Exercises

You'll learn 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.

You'll learn 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 Exercises

You'll learn 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 REHABILITATION

Speed up the rehab process with Formula 1 Rehabilitation.

In the CrookBack Clinic we'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.

DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT

We 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
Pain Free

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
Bodymind

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
Awareness Through Movement

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
Let's Get Well

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
Love your Disease

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
The Arthritis Cure

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
The Alexander Principle

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
Arthritis Can be Cured

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
Back Sufferers' Bible

Behind each improvement that can be attributed to 'technology' there lies a powerful human intentionality.

George Leonard
The Ultimate Athlete

CREATE A VISION - SET GOALS

If you take part in the CrookBack Clinic we'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, join a CrookBack Clinic.

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 take part in the CrookBack Clinic 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, COMPLIMENTS

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