Preventing and Managing Back Pain

Produced

• 2001

Key Features

37-minute VHS or DVD video (2001)
Includes one 38-page study guide.
Additional study guides available for $6.95 each if less than ten purchased, or $4.95 each if ten or more purchased at once.

Produced in association with Stanford University Media Solutions

Featuring:
Robert Gamburd, MD
Team Physician of Stanford Athletics and the San Francisco 49ers

In this video, you will learn specific techniques that will alleviate or even prevent back pain with the investment of just a few minutes per day.

Program highlights:

• Review of back anatomy.
• Teaches proper position when standing, sitting, keyboarding, driving and lifting.
• Eight exercises to relieve back pain;
  six exercises to maintain back fitness;
  and nine on-the-job stretches to help keep your back loose and flexible.

Chances are, at least half of the people in your workplace suffered from back pain last year-- whether they performed heavy physical labor or worked at a desk. Backaches affect workers at all levels, in all occupations--men and women equally.

But while nearly 80 percent of us will experience some type of back problem during our lifetime, something can be done.