TITLE: MAKING
YOUR BAD BACK BETTER WITH THE O'CONNOR TECHNIQUE
SUBTITLE: HOW
YOU CAN BECOME YOUR OWN CHIROPRACTOR
AUTHOR'S
LAST NAME: O'Connor
AUTHOR'S FIRST
NAME: William
AUTHOR'S MIDDLE
NAME: Thomas, Jr., M.D.
SYNOPSIS:
MAKING YOUR BAD BACK BETTER WITH THE O'CONNOR TECHNIQUE
(tm), HOW YOU CAN BECOME YOUR OWN CHIROPRACTOR
is a unique spinal pain relief educational treatise and
self-help manual that begins by describing the state-of-the-art
with respect to back pain management
and briefly elaborates on historical, contemporary, practitioner-mediated
and self-administered back pain therapies, comparing all
with The O'Connor Technique's method of backache management.
It then reviews the anatomy and pathology of the spinal
intervertebral discs (so as to educate the reader in the
standard terminology necessary to understand the concepts)
followed by a previously unpublished and elsewhere unavailable
physical means to self-diagnose the source of back
pain, neck pain, and backache. Then, through
an instructional set of principles it carefully explains
the mechanical forces that naturally act on the spine
and how these forces can be controlled and capitalized
upon to relieve and prevent spinal pain. Foremost, it
advances an unique and revolutionary method of spinal
pain therapy and spinal pain prevention by teaching individuals
with the most common forms of back and neck pain how to
manipulate their own spinal intervertebral disks to achieve
pain relief, restore lost range-of-motion, avoid surgery,
and prevent future pain and disability. It finishes by
specifically targeting many of the activities of daily
life which are especially associated with back pain and
the author's perspective on optional therapies available.
The book and especially the self-administered physical
therapy aspect was written to be read from a back pain sufferer's perspective,
in lay language; however it was also intentionally written with sufficient
technical detail so that a physical therapist, massage therapist, Chiropractor,
or physician can apply the identical principles to patients in order
to diagnose back pain or neck pain, relieve backache or neck ache, and
prevent their back pain or neck pain from re-occurring.
No other existing back pain therapy, backache
therapy, or neck pain therapy offered by the medical establishment,
or available to the public through any media, approaches
the successfulness of The O'Connor Technique in its ability
to not only address immediate, acute back pain
or chronic backache; but, over the life of the individual,
it teaches how the painful biological process of degenerative
disc disease can be avoided and, this previously believed
to be relentless process, prevented from advancing at
the rate it otherwise might.
In the universe of back pain books, one book could not
relevantly address or specifically hope to treat every
form of back pain. The O'Connor Technique (tm) is based
upon the uniquely determined clinical understanding that
the overwhelming majority of back pain originates from
spinal mechanical problems in which the fibro-cartilaginous
material of the intervertebral disc has been physically
displaced or herniated. Often, this condition is correctly
diagnosed as Mechanical Back Pain, Acute Back
Pain, Chronic Back Pain, Functional Backache,
Spinal Soft Tissue Injury, Connective Tissue Injury, Low
Back Sprain, Back Strain, Lumbar Strain, Lumbar Sprain,
Ligamentous Strain, Ligamentous Sprain, Lumbar Ligament
Strain, Lumbar Ligament Sprain, Lumbar Disc Degeneration,
(Lumbar Disk Degeneration), Low Backache, Chronic Backache,
Acute Backache, Spinal Disease, Disc Disease (or Disk
Disease), Intervertebral Disc Disease (or Intervertebral
Disk Disease), Slipped Disc (or Slipped Disk), Spinal
Disc Disease (or Spinal Disk Disease), Herniated Disc
(or Herniated Disk), Herniated Intervertebral Disc (or
Herniated Intervertebral Disk), Spinal Disc Protrusion,
(or Spinal Disk Protrusion), Degenerative Disc Disease,
(or Degenerative Disk Disease), Pinched Disk or Pinched
Disc, Acute Neck Pain, Chronic Neck Pain, Cervical Disc
Herniation, Cervical Disk Protrusion, Cervical Ligament
Sprain, Cervical Ligament Strain, or Sciatica.
However, too, many times it is incorrectly diagnosed as
Spinal Arthritis, Spinal Facet Joint Disease, Spinal Misalignment, Spinal
Malalignment, Spinal Subluxation, Spondylosis, Facet Syndrome, Facet
Arthritis, Degenerative Facet Disease, Spinal Osteoarthritis, Sacroiliitis,
Muscle Sprain, Muscle Strain, Pulled Muscles, Muscle Spasms of the Back
Muscles, Fibromyalgia, Fibrositis, Pinched Nerve, Nerve Root Syndrome,
Radiculopathy, Shoulder Pain, Wry Neck Syndrome, Whiplash, Torticullis,
Sacroileitis, Lumbago, or Scoliosis. Persons with these diagnoses should
make an attempt to confirm or discount these diagnoses by engaging The
O'Connor Technique (tm) of self-diagnosing your disk (see excerpt below).
The prospective reader can rapidly determine
if their particular back pain is most
likely caused by a disc problem amenable to The O'Connor
Technique (tm) as well as quantify for themselves the
probability of benefit by taking tests provided in the
book. The book as well as its companion web site start
off with a written test that selects for those whose back
pain or neck pain problems most likely can be helped by
The O'Connor Technique (tm) and largely eliminates those
persons who probably will not benefit by it. The more
a reader's back problem correlates with affirmative responses
to the written test, the higher the probability they will
receive back pain or neck pain relief. Too, the book describes
a physical method in which back pain sufferers themselves
can, by making specially designed postural movements,
confirm the nature of their problem with a self-performed
physical diagnostic test. Once the reader is convinced
that this book addresses their problem, a self-manipulative
method, similar to chiropractic, but exceeding it in efficacy,
is described to relocate the displaced disc material and
prevent it from dislocating again, without tiring, repetitive,
exercises or expensive devices.
Of note is the fact that it is not necessary for the reader
to digest the entire 400 pages, the book may be used compartmentally,
allowing the reader to go quickly to the sections pertaining to their
specific pain area, without reading the entire manual; however, since
most low back pain sufferers eventually have pain in other segments
of the spine, the neck and the thorax are also treated individually.
The over 110 illustrations and 220 photographs in the book help
make the concepts and directions, although novel, easy to understand
and perform.
ISBN: 0-9664991-1-5
PUBLICATION DATE: 02/01/2000
PUBLISHER NAME: AEGIS GENOMICS CORPORATION
PUBLISHER'S EMAIL: woconnor@inreach.com
PRICE: $37.95
FORMAT: Paperback
# OF PAGES: 402
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