In these fast-paced, jam-packed, sometimes humorous workshops, Dr. Bookspan explodes myths and shows why the most common treatments don't work. See the principles in action where you least expect them. Learn more solutions than you can shake a stick at. Come prepared to excite your brain. For motivated students only who will use their brain.

We cover why you get pain, what to do about it, and how to keep it from coming back:

• For the class Breakthroughs in Fixing Back and Neck Pain: General mechanics of disc pain, disc degeneration, and herniation, sciatica, impingement (pinched nerve) joint and soft tissue pain and injury process, neck pain, lordosis, bad discs, facet pain, upper crossed syndrome, general arthritis and narrowings, spondys, hyperlordosis (swayback), pain with standing, pain with sitting, muscle spasm, hip dysfunction, tight muscles, more.
• For the Fix and Prevent Injuries workshop: shorter summary of the above, plus ankles, knees, arches, more.
• Identify and reeducate common injurious ergonomics and habits.
• Identify good and bad exercises.
• Stretch and ergonomics for long sitting: cars, desks, meetings, flights. Healthful movement in daily life, strength/range of motion, more.
• Certification is available from Dr. Bookspan, through the Academy

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Participant Comments

The workshop gave me a vastly improved understanding of mechanics and rarely presented ways of utilizing them for health and problem elimination/control. The overall learning/insight is excellent; the information of immediate clinical therapeutic use. I very highly recommend this course.
- Dr. Linder Wingo, M.D., Ocala Florida

The workshop is very practical. Concepts easy to understand.
I already have felt pain relief.
- Dana Chandler, North Carolina

I personally benefited and reduced my own back pain.
Also, the shoulder information you taught us helped my shoulder pain (had it for years --PT exercises did not help). My shoulder pain has actually gone away. I am amazed.
- Major Kelly Fripps, BSN, RN, USAir Force,
NC Flight Commander, Primary Care Teams Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona

I learned exercises that have already given me relief of my own pain. The workshop gave ways to easily recognize and correct problems. I recommend everything about this workshop.
- Dr. Thomas Brown, M.D., Emergency Room Physician, St. Agnes Medical Center

I will be able to help my patients with all I learned.
What do I say about this workshop? Go for it!
- Dr. Mack C. Poole, M.D., Spartanburg, S

My mother literally stopped the surgeons on her way into surgery, and left the hospital to try your techniques instead. She is much better now. I truly am grateful for your willingness to help, your compassion, your generosity. I consider you an angel of mercy, for you have also rid me of the pains that were making me old before my time.
- Kat Gibson, Colorado, "One of America's top singers and songwriters" acc to Savanna Times Journal

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BEFORE class, here is how to prepare:

1. Free Summaries. Read the One(s) that Apply to You:

Upper Back and Neck Pain
Neck and upper back pain, herniated and degenerating cervical (neck) discs, upper shoulder.rotator cuff pain, numb arm/fingers, and forward head.
http://www.DrBookspan.com/NeckPainArticle.html

Lower Back Pain
Iin-depth look at how fix your own back pain, intro to discs, and some effective exercises
http://www.DrBookspan.com/BackPainArticle.html
- Español!-! Dolor de Espalda y Que Hacer?

Bad Discs and Sciatica
Disc degeneration, herniation, and sciatica, and what to do to fix them yourself
http://www.DrBookspan.com/DiscArticle.html
- Français! -Prévenir le mal de dos en cas de longue station assise


Lower Back Pain With Standing, Walking, Running (when upright, not sitting)
How (exactly) abs fix back pain (It's not by strengthening) - You may be surprised. Includes, lordosis, hyperlordosis, spondys, swayback, SI joint, more.
http://www.DrBookspan.com/AbsArticle.html
- Français! - La Révolution Abdominale™ Une Nouvelle Manière de Comprendre et d’Utiliser les Muscles Abdominaux

Knee Pain
Instead of reducing activity, learn healthy movement that helps knees and improves function at the same time.
http://www.DrBookspan.com/KneePainArticle.html

List of all Fix Pain readings on this web site.

Make sure you understand the concepts, not just skip them to "do" exercises.

 

2. Then Read this Short Fitness Fixer Summary:

"Fast Fitness - Somebody Please Do My Personal Responsibility For Me!"

It answers student questions on your readings.

3. Subscribe to "The Fitness Fixer" On-Line Health Column

Free health blog (column) on fun innovative ways to make exercise and daily life healthier. The Fitness Fixer at Healthline.com. Several new articles each week. Here is The Fitness Fixer Index.

 

4. Check How Others Fixed the Same Pain You Have - Inspiring Patient Stories

In Inspiring Patient Stories people tell, in their own words, how they used the information in the classes and books to stop their pain and injuries. Not testimonials, but tutorials.
http://www.drbookspan.com/PatientStories.html

5. Get Your Books

This course is too comprehensive to fit in a few summary readings. Text books are available in class at discount for students or on this web site:

Fix Your Own Pain Without Drugs or Surgery Everything we cover in class to fix your neck, upper back, and lower back pain and disc pain, fully illustrated, step-by-step. Plus how to fix pain everywhere else - chapters on exactly what to do to fix and prevent pain in your hip, shoulder, wrist, knee, feet and ankles, leg cramps, more.

Health & Fitness in Plain English- How to be Healthy Happy and Fit for the Rest of Your Life New THIRD Edition.
For people with back or neck pain who also want to be active and learn healthier nutrition and lifestyle. 31 chapters of step-by-step instructions for better health.

The Ab Revolution™ No More Crunches No More Back Pain New revised third edition expanded.
Revolutionary core training method - no forward bending that stresses disc and trains rounded painful posture. Combination of sports medicine and fun exercise to straighten posture, learn neutral spine, and get a healthier stronger workout than with conventional abdominal exercises. Change your understanding of what abdominal muscles do (and don't do) during daily activity and what they have to do with your back. Used by military, law enforcement, and the nation's top spine doctors. Fully illustrated.131 pages.

Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier
Learn which traditional stretches add to pain and dysfunction. Learn healthier and more fun stretches to do instead.

 

6.   For Smarter Progress FIxing Your Pain and Keeping it Away

• All methods are intended to decrease pain and improve function starting as soon as you begin using them.
• Each technique should make an obvious positive change right then. If it does not make sense or help, you may not be applying it as intended.
• Do not do anything that makes more or new pain. Don't fix one pain and cause another (that's traditional medicine, not this method).
• Understand each thing presented and why it is done - before using it.
• Pain may return if you return to habits and exercises that strain muscles and puts joints into unhealthy positioning.
• Keep thinking and practicing and understanding until healthy motion becomes natural and the way you move for all daily life.
• Subscribe to the free online health column (blog) for fun new health and exercise topics each week: The Fitness Fixer. LInks above.
• Review your free summaries of “Fix Pain” information, links above.
• Get your textbooks -"Fix Your Own Pain Without Drugs or Surgery" and Health & Fitness in Plain English, THIRD edition, plus others. Available in class at discount. To order anytime, click: Books.
• Take other workshops and classes for new information and to refresh and practice. Click the link: Classes.
• Enjoy getting better. Smile. Relax. Breathe.
• Schedule follow-up appointment, if needed.
• Certificate of completion and instructor training available.

 

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Don't listen to anyone who tells you you can't do this or that. That's nonsense.
Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick,
then have a go at everything.

-- Sir Douglas Bader (1910-1982), British fighter pilot who lost both legs
in a flying accident, but still fought in World War Two

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